Para muchos, Nokia is the best mobile manufacturer in history. Having a Nokia was having the best, and that was always the case until not so many years ago. They were referent. Whoever could not have a Nokia, had some other brand, but for many years, it was the mobile of businessmen, unemployed, fathers, mothers, children, grandparents ... Now, Nokia has left us without actually launching a successful Android.
Nokia is leaving
Microsoft has bought Nokia. In a twist that many had seen as expected, the Redmond company acquired the Finns in hopes of keeping alive the Windows Phone flame that Nokia had fueled for the past several years. And it is that, Windows Phone could have already disappeared. At a time when all companies were launching some, albeit few, smartphones with Microsoft's operating system, Android dominated the catalog of most manufacturers, and on the other hand there was Apple, with its iPhone, one of the most sold in the world. If we now think about what would have happened if Microsoft had not reached an agreement with the Finnish company for them to choose Windows Phone as their main operating system, we realize that it is most likely that Windows Phone would have practically already died. How many non-Nokia Windows smartphones have we seen lately?
For many, the agreement between Nokia and Microsoft was a mistake. Nokia had a huge future in the smartphone market, and Microsoft was only a marginal operating system. But in reality, that was only a preview of what was to come. Microsoft was later to buy Nokia. In addition, the news of the purchase came shortly after rumors that the Finnish company could be working on an Android smartphone. Perhaps Microsoft feared that those who until now had been making smartphones with its operating system would succeed with Android and that it would stop making Windows Phones. Be that as it may, the truth is that the Redmond people bought the company. And now, it has been confirmed that it will become Microsoft's mobile division, so we can hope that the brand, with what it has been during all these years, will no longer last.
They have not succeeded with an Android
And what is unfortunate is that in all these years Nokia has not managed to succeed with an Android. If he had all the ballots. If there was a company that could really rival Samsung in making mobile phones, that is without a doubt the Finnish company. Many are the users who still think that buying a Nokia is synonymous with buying quality, it is a guaranteed purchase. It left an indelible mark on many lives, and it's totally normal. In a world where phones could only make calls and play very basic games, Nokia succeeded in establishing its Symbians as the few "smartphones" out there at the time. Although let's say that Apple created the world of applications, there was already an entire community around Symbian, where developers created applications. Apple created a platform to distribute applications, but already at that time who had a Nokia phone with Symbian had a more capable phone than anyone else. In fact, let's not forget that WhatsApp is compatible with Symbian, for a reason.
Such a company could succeed with an Android mobile. Younger people may not know much about Nokia, and you have the feeling that Samsung is a much larger company. To give you an idea, the Samsung Galaxy S3 launched in 2011, as well as the iPhone 4S, from the same year, have managed to reach the figure of 60 million units sold. Do you think that less mobile phones were bought before? That's right, and that's why the Nokia thing has even more merit. The Nokia 5130 sold 65 million units. The Nokia 6010 sold 75 million, the Nokia 1208 reached 100 million. The Nokia 3310 stayed at 126 million. And if you think those are Nokia's best sellers, you are still wrong. Leaving a few on the way, we can reach the Nokia 1200, 6600 and 5230, with 150 million units sold. The 3210 is the second best-selling ever, with 160 million units, and the Nokia 1100 holds the record with 250 million units, more than four times the number of iPhone 4S and Galaxy S3 sold. Figures manufacturers don't even dream of today. Could Nokia have competed with Samsung and Apple in the smartphone market?
The Nokia X would be the last
And what is even sadder is not that Nokia's successful Android has not arrived, it is that it seemed that now they were beginning to launch Android smartphones. The Nokia X is one such example. And not only that, but also the Nokia XL and the Nokia X +. Three smartphones with basic features, Android operating system and unbeatable prices. However, they are only entry-level smartphones, they are not true flagships. What would have happened if Nokia's manufacturing quality, the prestige and respect that many users have for the brand, and the world's most widely used operating system in the world had been combined? That we can never know, the Nokia X, Nokia X + and Nokia XL, which we talked about in depth when they were launched, could have been the last goodbye of a company that has been a historical reference in the world of mobile phones. A company that we will miss a lot from the Android universe. They could have been the greatest, everyone asked to bet on Android, but in the end it could not be.
Well, I think Nokia is the best of all because it manufactured the most amazing cell phones in the world with the open source symbian operating system.
I have a Nokia c7 and I have tested with Android, Windows phone, Samsung, Motorola
and all the others are rubbish because they do not have the qualities and characteristics that a cell phone has, they are symbian operating system.
For me I think that Nokia made the biggest mistake in its history by selling to Microsoft, if Nokia had not been bought, it could have reached a higher level than all the others by continuing to manufacture mobile phones with symbian, improving their precision and improving techniques applying intelligence. and productivity on mobiles.
I am very sorry Nokia you were one of the best in the history of mobile phones we will always remember you.
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Maybe your symbian works better for you than another mobile because what you require from a mobile is nothing more than how little a smartphone with symbian can give you. But at the moment in which the system evolved it would end up being like an android, ios, windows phone, etc.
I am not the one to criticize anyone's opinion, but I think you are very wrong, since in what I understand if symbian evolved it would be very similar to any current OS (which you criticize) and this would be against your opinion and your tastes.
A greeting.
The same thing happened with the Star Wars company that if I had not bought it right now we could have Star Wars 8 or even 10
In part you are right and in part not, if symbian had never existed, neither ios nor android would exist, since symbian was the first OS for smarphones (smartphones) in which you could do the same thing that is done today with an android and much more than what can be done with an ios
Well, it simply could not be because the same engineers commented that programming for the Symbian system was very tedious and more complicated.
That it was not possible to advance with the other operating systems, perhaps that was the failure.
And if Nokia was missed
They have lost a lot by selling themselves to Microsoft, I think that if they had bet on Android they could surpass those who are right now at the top
you're right manuel
I think Nokia's worst mistake was actually pulling down its pants against Microsoft. I'm sure many, many people (including myself) would have left their current cell phone for a Nokia with Android. At the hardware level, there was nothing like a Nokia. Sigh…
It is a pity that the Micro $$$ is the boss, and the managers (of both companies) are the ones who get their "little" bonus for a successful sale and purchase.
I think Android is a poor operating system !! riddled with viruses !!! and junk apps !!! I respect apple iOS and windows phone a lot, IOS obviously came first, windows phone has a good and fresh and simple concept. But not Android !!!
IOS obviously came first? Are you sure? because i remember nokia invented smartphones with its symbian OS years before apple came out its iphone. or I have misinterpreted what you wanted to say, or you should inform yourself better, or you were not born when Nokia dominated the market and Apple did not exist as a telephone
I think it was the users because nokia was allowed to succeed, for example, the first real touch smartphone was from Nokia and nobody bought it three years later, Apple took out the iPhone and everyone bought it as if the apple ignored them, two symbians had nothing to do To envy android, the terminals were good and at that time there was a good offer of apps but fashion is the first, the monopoly of so android was imposed, such as windows on pc and symbian, it was left behind for simple fashion, no more because nokia terminals like it n8 stood out a lot and i think it was better than iphone the camera was in its time the best nokia always did superior things example the camera the n8 had the best camera for a long time but it seems that nobody cares because iphone is the fashionable phone