Comments on: Nokia allocates $150 million for Nseries advertising

By: brum

brum — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:30:18 +0000

It’s a little sad me thinks, they did a great job in the early days, advertising has to play a part but I hope they adresses the issue at the heart of the matter – the phones (and understanding the customer). I really hope they don’t go under.

Posted from Palm Centro via OperaMini in Australia – loving it!

By: Kalani

Kalani — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:07:53 +0000

spend that 150million bones to ADVERTISE THE E-71!

the most overlooked snartphone ever

By: charlie

charlie — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:54:47 +0000

Nokia is sinking…instead of $150 million to improve Symbian or maybe do a firmware upgrade on US phones, they want to do advertising. Guess their execs are tired of the Samsung and Apple ads hurting their chances with the ladies. Good lucks finns. I love your snow tires!

By: branon

branon — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:51:49 +0000

I doubt a single penny of this will be spent in the US.

By: Eric in Cupertino

Eric in Cupertino — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:41:27 +0000

I doubt this will amount to anything.

How about advertisements on TV for the E71 running Palringo, SportsTracker, Shozu or WirelessIRC?

Sure it’s a cheap Apple knockoff but at least it’s a start.

By: jbru

jbru — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:32:17 +0000

i think its safe to say Larry David was the brain behind the Seinfeld series success…not Jerry.

By: TRV$

TRV$ — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:18:53 +0000

@ larry…

keep in mind the Seinfeld way of speaking..

Comma = hesitation

“What’s, (hesitation) the deal, (hesitation, again) with Nokia?”

By: larry sanders

larry sanders — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:12:48 +0000

Grammar gestapo: There shouldn’t be a comma in the thought bubble. Should just be “What’s the deal with Nokia?”

By: Zach Epstein

Zach Epstein — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:44:56 +0000

Thx Joey, fixed.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:32:38 +0000

Spelling gestapo: Finns, not Fins.

By: Deemoots

Deemoots — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:19:46 +0000

It cant help that only geeks even know about n series phones in the USA and its difficult to get these phones subsidised.

By: jimmykicks

jimmykicks — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:54:55 +0000

It didn’t help Nokia much this year that it took them forever to release their new batch of N-series devices. The E-71, for instance would have been an amazing offering had it come out the door six months earlier. As it happened, better devices were already on the market, or just around the corner by the time it dropped.

Add that Symbian is in dire need of a *MAJOR* overhaul (is this even planned?) and I don’t really see any major changes in Nokia’s fortune 2009. Decline will still be the order of the day.

By: librapaj

librapaj — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:57:30 +0000

It’s kind of hard to keep your market share when you really aren’t releasing anything worth buying. Oh my god they now have an N95-65. This time they added a little black line on it!

Hint: that was my failed attempt at sarcasm.

Their phones are very blah and not something revolutionary but more like evolutionary. They need to release better products and in this day and age make them cheaper than a mortgage payment. Odds are people aren’t too inclined to purchase an 800 dollar phone.