Nokia to continue to promote Symbian platform smartphone in US

Beijing time March 21 Morning News, Nokia plans to work with T USA (today has been at&t acquisition) to launch the new Symbian system smartphone, so as to maintain the market share in the United States.　　Nokia has been working with Microsoft to move the focus to Windows Phone 7 ("WP7") mobile phone development. As the long-term overlord of the mobile phone industry, Nokia is currently in a disadvantageous position to compete with Apple and Google's smart machines.　　To reverse the decline, Nokia in February announced a partnership with Microsoft to abandon its own development of the Symbian system to switch to Microsoft WP7. But Nokia says it will continue to launch Symbian handsets to follow the current competitive smartphone market, as its WP7 handsets will not be launched into the market in large quantities until next year.　　The source said that Nokia and T USA will launch a C7 intelligent machine based on the Symbian system. Given that the Symbian system still has a huge user base and developer support, analysts say Nokia is unlikely to focus on WP7 handset development.　　Elop, the Nokia CEO, also said they would continue to invest in the Symbian system during the transition to WP7. According to data from market research firm Canalys, Symbian was still the world's largest smartphone platform until the four quarter of last year. But it was later overtaken by Google's Android, and its share fell to 31%. Charles Golvin, a market research firm Forrester analyst Charles Golvin, said Nokia needed to do everything possible to make its Symbian system still attractive so they could successfully develop WP7 handsets. "Symbian needs to maintain market momentum, and although the platform is no longer competitive, they still have to compete aggressively," he said.　　Nokia did not respond to the report. The current pattern of mobile phone market has changed dramatically, the original mobile phone users are now fast towards the smart machine, Nokia has not competed in this point Apple and Google, the U.S. market share is very limited.　　Many American users believe that Symbian is less attractive than Apple and Google, and Nokia CEO Elop last month admitted it. In addition, cooperation with mobile operators is a big problem for Nokia. Unable to get the operator's more satisfying Symbian handset subsidy and marketing support, Nokia has abandoned its plan to launch the Symbian mobile phone X7 in the US.　　Nokia did not co-operate with other operators when it released N8 high-end smartphones in the US last year, which also affected sales of N8. Nokia will ship C7 smartphones around the world by October this year, excluding tax subsidies that are expected to be priced at $475 trillion.　　At a four-quarter analyst meeting last year, Elop C7 as the main driver of Nokia's more than 5 million mobile phone sales in the quarter. William Stow, an analyst at IDC, said Stofega. Nokia's success will depend on price and T's marketing support for C7 handsets. He said: "Will it compete with Apple products?" I don't think so, but if the price is right, C7 is also a very good choice. "(Xiao Ming)