Yesterday I attended a short media briefing and Q&A before Nokia’s annual general meeting in Helsinki, where CEO Stephen Elop and the new Chairman of the Board Risto Siilasmaa answered a few questions. It felt like one more missed chance to convince things are improving at Nokia. Mr. Siilasmaa emphasized Nokia’s Finnish cultural roots, but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Elop’
Stephen Elop and vision for Nokia
Posted in General, Smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone, tagged Lumia, Nokia, Stephen Elop, Windows Phone on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hard talk: “The Elop Effect”
Posted in Smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone, tagged Nokia, Stephen Elop, Symbian, Windows Phone on August 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The decision to move to Windows Phone platform from Symbian and MeeGo has caused a lot of discussion and disputes. One thing is for sure: This is not something the current CEO Stephen Elop decided on his own. Such a strategic decision was approved and maybe even prepared by the board of directors, lead by [...]
How Elop did not kill Symbian
Posted in Smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone, tagged Apple, Nokia, Samsung, smartphones, Stephen Elop, Symbian on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Since Nokia released its Q2 2011 results and figures of rapidly declining smartphone market share, there’s been fierce debate on mobile blogs whether Stephen Elop‘s ”Burning Platform memo” and the February 11th announcement to move to Windows Phone are to be blamed. There’s an interesting argument against this on the personal blog of Stasys Bielinis (aka [...]
Nokia’s amazing drop in smartphones
Posted in Android, Smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone, tagged Android, iOS, Nokia, smartphones, Stephen Elop, Symbian on July 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Tough competition from Android smartphone vendors and Apple iPhone combined to Nokia’s announcement to eventually kill Symbian has resulted to something which would sounded unbelievable a couple of years ago: During Q2 2011, Apple passed Nokia as the largest smartphone vendor. Nokia shippad about 16,7 million smartphones, against 25,2 million Apple iPhone shipments. Nokia’s smartphone shipments [...]
Murtazin: Nokia betting on a dead horse
Posted in Android, iOS, MeeGo, Smartphones, Symbian, Windows Phone, tagged Andy Lees, Eldar Murtazin, leak, Nokia, Rich Green, smartphones, Stephen Elop, Windows Phone on July 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Finnish national public media Yleisradio (YLE) news has interviewed Mr Eldar Murtazin, the owner of the Mobile-Review.com site. Murtazin claims Nokia is “betting on a dead horse” by giving up MeeGo and Symbian and moving to Windows Phone 7. YLE reports Murtazin said Nokia is “clinging to a system with a smaller market share”. [...]
First impressions of Nokia N9
Posted in MeeGo, Smartphones, tagged MeeGo, Nokia, Nokia N8, Nokia N9, smartphone, Stephen Elop, Symbian on June 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last Tuesday Nokia invited Finnish media to a demo launch of Nokia N9, the first and the only MeeGo coming from them with today’s knowledge. It had been announced officially in Singapore by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and design director Marko Ahtisaari a couple of hours earlier. Nokia’s local executives emphasized they had created something [...]
