Nokia has just unveiled its N9 smartphone which drew several different reactions from the public. The Finnish company who seeks to regain the top spot in mobile phone market aims that through a series of revamping and reconstructing of their products and applications, sales will go higher through the next 2 quarters of the year.
But the problem is that the N9 runs on a MeeGo platform, a combination of Nokia’s own Maemo platform and chip manufacturing giant Intel’s Moblin. Hence, this is not something that most people would actually enjoy using due to very limited capabilities, compared to its smartphone rivals. “I have increased confidence that we will launch our first (device) Windows Phone platform later this year, and we will ship our products in volume in 2012,” Elop said.
Nokia now reverts to using Windows 7 for their mobile phone platforms later this year or early 2012, to catch up on some lost popularity. This year has been a year of setbacks for the Finnish firm having lost the 1st quarter to Apple in sales, having only gotten $9.4 billion, compared to Apple’s$11.9 billion in handset revenues. To further Nokia’s struggle, a Japanese bank recently announced that Samsung Electronics is about to end the 14-year reign of Nokia, with its 2nd quarter sales projection seen to overtake the global smartphone performance of the latter. Nokia’s shares have fallen more than 40% in the year, up to date.