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Nokia Arms The Competition Against Qualcomm

How do you think this will effect Nokia's ASP and margins on low end devices which can be in the low single digits and up to 40% on high end devices.

Nokia's Restructuring: Nobody Loves A Value-Chain Hog

I too have to disagree with you David. Now as a consumer my view of the market is probably more skewed than the operator centric approach you are taking, but Nokia has always enabled me to share my content on popular websites like Flickr for at least a year or two. They embrace the web and more of their marketing material indicates Web 2.0 is where the action is and where they want to be.

I'm just as eager as you are to see what this new Software and Services division can come up with, but I'm more excited that the hardware divisions have fused together into one entity. The competition between Enterprise and Multimedia was fierce and my regular conversations with Nokia employees seem to indicate that there was little, if any, interaction between the two departments.

I've been waiting for an article like yours to tackle the reorganization announcement, I found your blog so I'll definitely email you my thoughts on the situation.

One more thing, design is very user subjective. I personally don't like Motorola's designs and Samsung products appear too feminine for my taste. I own a Nokia E61i and I also find Sony Ericsson to produce fantastic products as well.