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It's official now: Nokia is uncool and users massively switch brands and dump Nokia brand!
May 25, 2004;
Nokia - an evil corporation, that stifles whole cell phone industry, and that has been using underhanded and unfair tactics to combat Microsoft, is dying. Users no longer consider buying a "Nokia" branded cell phone to be something "cool". Our dream comes truth. Wow!

Here, at one of Europe's premier gizmo emporiums, you can tell at a glance what's hot and what's ho-hum. The shelves are jammed with sleek Samsung flip-phones, gorgeous new designs by Sony Ericsson, and big-screen color models from Sharp and Sagem. By contrast, the handful of Nokia phones look dowdy and uninspired. Shopper Antoine Chapuis, a 34-year-old Parisian and longtime Nokia fan, is switching brands. "Nokia phones are less fashionable nowadays than they used to be," he says.

Nokia the Uncool. Who could have imagined it would come to this? Yet something has suddenly gone awry for the Finnish mobile giant.

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(on picture above: CEO of Nokia answers a question asked by msmobiles.com during 3GSM congress in Cannes, France)

Nokia is a good customer for Microsoft - it buys a lot of Microsoft Office and OS software. Yes, Nokia doesn't use Linux for their employees, but just latest Windows OS from Microsoft! However we think that the only chance for Nokia to survive in long-term is to start producing cell phones based on Microsoft software (like Microsoft Smartphone or Pocket PC phone). Nokia's stubbornness and lack of diversity in smartphones (using only Symbian, nothing else) may strike back with vengeance... according to our current predictions we will see Microsoft Smartphone made by Nokia around year 2006, but then it may be too late... and "Nokia" brand will be up for grabs for peanuts for Asian vendors like BenQ or Samsung...

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