Marbo Higuchi wrote:
> I think, two key reason for Nokia's decision of OEM deal with SANYO;
> 1) Competitive digital mobile phones must have a full color graphic display
> 2) Timing
3) After their miserable performance during the last 5 years or so,
Nokia has finally admitted that their R&D can't keep up with the
Japanese companies...
Of course, the Sanyo OEM is PDC and thus (from Nokia's POV) pretty
much irrelevant in the large scale of things. It will, however, be
very interesting to watch whether Nokia can manage to roll out its
own 3G phones, or whether they'll be demoted to an outfit that
designs pretty covers.
Cheers,
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Received on Thu Apr 12 05:31:03 2001