Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Dream Phone' Concept

Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by foobarbazetc on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:21PM (#16477469)

I have a Nokia 8 for development and it’s a nicer phone than the Pixel 2 for the price.

Imagine a world where Nokia doesn’t hire a MS exec as CEO to tank the company so they can sell it to MS and instead adopted Android.

They’d be worth more than Samsung.

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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by jitix on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:56PM (#16477802)

> They’d be worth more than Samsung

Samsung is not just about phones. They are a major computer hardware manufacturer (memory, SSDs, etc.), major appliance manufacturer and also a major producer of mobile chips, among other things.

But yeah if Nokia had adopted android long back Samsung's phone's probably wouldn't have become that popular. Or Nokia might have eaten market share from Apple.

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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by pjmlp on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:39PM (#16484866)

They could have started for not having internal wars between Symbian and Maemo units.

Already when the first Maemo tablet was shown to us on internal demos, we saw the future, but it was unthinkable to have GSM support.

Followed by not having a bonus clause for the CEO to tank the company.

Thankfully they managed to survive, even if on a different shape.

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Re:Hands-On with the Nokia 8 Sirocco: Reviving Nokia's 'Drea... by foobarbazetc on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:21AM (#16499533)

Yeah the Samsung Mobile part was implied. ;)

Definitely an interesting counter factual to think about.

I wonder if the Nokia board from that time ever think about the collosal mistake they made hiring some MS guy. I wonder if anyone wrote anything about it.

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