Nokia confident about surpassing RIM and Apple
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 05 January 2010, 14:49 IST   |    1 Comments
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Nokia confident about surpassing RIM and Apple
Bangalore: Apple's iPhone and the newer version of Research in Motion's (RIM) new Blackberry phones have made a huge impact on the sales and market share of Nokia. But Nokia is confident that it will recover quickly to surpass its rivals, reports Electronista. In an interview to India Times, Rick Simonson, Chief of mobile division, Nokia said that sales of Eseries phones like the E75 are three times larger than for the BlackBerry and that both it and the iPhone are relatively narrow focus devices where Nokia's broader focus could help it win. "By 2011, our efforts will start producing results, as we will be at par with Apple and RIM in smartphones," Simonson claims. "Not only [will] we draw level with them, we will also win the war because, in addition to e-mail, we will be adding content, chat, music, entertainment and several other features, which will soon become very critical for success of any company in this space." Simonson also dismisses talk that the deficit in apps versus the iPhone is an issue and argues that Nokia's sheer scale, as well as its use of the multi-vendor Symbian platform, should convince developers to write for its phones. App downloads so far sit at about two million per day and put it behind only Apple. Many of the analysts of the mobile market have also observed that key Nokia services like the unified Ovi Store and Comes With Music have failed to gain ground while most of Nokia's touchscreen phones outside of the 5800 XpressMusic have had lackluster sales. Nokia has high-hopes on Symbian^3, which should finally give it multi-touch and an interface built more for touchscreens from the start.

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