A positive note from the chaps over at TechCrunch on Nokia — along the lines of my piece last week.
As bad as Nokia’s financials look right now – a $4 billion drop in sales won’t make anyone’s day – don’t consider the Windows Phone move a failure just yet. They’ve done what many phone companies have thus far failed to do – namely change swiftly with the times – and, more important, they’ve done it quite admirably.
The Lumia 900 is still the number one selling handset on Amazon US. That can only be good news.
The Lumia 900 is kicking ass!
Was it really that swift of a change? Had they release a WP based phone a 1-3 months after the announcement that that would have been a swift change. It seems like it forever for them to release their first one, and they’ve not exactly released a large range of them since then.
Releasing a handset is a seriously complex job. It used to take Nokia 18-36 months to do this. Getting ONE handset out in the same year was a brilliant performance!