Nokia To Stop Selling Symbian Devices In USA To Focus On Windows Phones

August 9, 2011 | By Pradeep

In an interview to All Things Digital, Chris Weber , Nokia’s President of U.S. subsidiary have revealed Nokia’s future plan in USA. Here is the quick summary of the interview,

Nokia will also focus exclusively on sales through traditional wireless carriers. So far Nokia was selling their devices without carrier contract independently to customers.
When Nokia Windows Phones enter the market, there will be no Symbian devices for sale from Nokia.

“It will be Windows Phone and the accessories around that. The reality is if we are not successful with Windows Phone, it doesn’t matter what we do (elsewhere).”

Nokia will work on smartphones for USA, based on which it will be applied throughout the world.

“We’ll develop for North America and make the phones globally available and applicable,” “In fact, evidence of that is that the first Windows Phones that will ship are being done by our group in San Diego.”

Weber also revealed that North America is key to Nokia’s success in smartphone arena and they are going to execute their largest ever marketing effort to promote Windows Phones in USA.

I feel the fire in Nokia, what about you? For more on the interview, hit the source link.

Source: AllThingsD

About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

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Anonymous

Well one thing is certain, they are going all in for better or worse. I hope this focus will bring positive press and penetration of market share (Both in the US and elsewhere). It will be an uphill climb, but I think the right pieces are coming into place with Mango features, more integrated services (Live, Office, Xbox, Skype, etc), and Windows 8 this upcoming year. And with Nokia being very serious about WP, 2012 should become a great year for MS and it’s products.
Anonymous

Great news about their focus on the US market! I really don’t recall that Nokia sells Symbian devices in the US (save the Astound), so it really shouldn’t be a difficult transition.

I hope that they don’t completely eliminate the ‘unlocked’ purchasing option, though. There aren’t many who purchase unlocked devices, but I’d be willing to if the price was right!
Anonymous

Please Sprint Pleeeeeeaaaase!
Anonymous

just start rolling out some WP7 phones for fucks sake

Im not really impressed with this Sea Rey stuff. Too lame. Nothing special. Hope thats not it. Would be shameful. They need to roll out the phone with exact or similar design like the one on earlier images.

http://cubeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Nokia_Windows_Phone_7_Smartphones_Concept1.jpg

Roser Hong

Oh enough with that already. A concept image will forever be a concept. The Sea Ray looks a lot better than those anyways.

Anonymous

no sea ray looks like shit. squary piece of shit.
Anonymous

Please look on the leaked video again very well, you will see the problem on the Sea Ray. How the space is wasted on the bottom and still placing the hardware button very close to the working screen. If you are one of those that are concerned with the trouble of hitting the capacitive hardware button, this is the huge huge flaw in the design from Nokia. Otherwise, just by the look they are bankable.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AKGUXBVMTLUJQALC32QVFA6EUQ Yasser Mansour

A big mistake that Nokia is following MS strategy. Develop everything for the US market and let everybody else go to hell, they will get that particular feature, maybe next year. I’m not against the US Market, but one of the strategic decisions of the Microsoft-Nokia partnership is to expand the market and not Develop for the US First and god knows when the rest of the market will get the features. Plus, according to this story: http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-7-crosses-2-market-share-in-usa-has-7-of-german-market/
WP7 has higher market share in markets other than the US, so please pay attention to other markets as well to you grab the attention worldwide and not only US!!

Anonymous

I don’t think they are necessarily focusing more on the US, they simply said in the US they will focus on WP exclusively. That being said, I think Nokia will greatly help MS expand their services (of both companies) into the other regions faster than either could alone. Nokia needed more help in the US, and MS needs more help outside the US/UK. This should greatly help that along.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AKGUXBVMTLUJQALC32QVFA6EUQ Yasser Mansour

Read this article: http://wmpoweruser.com/rumour-multiple-nokia-windows-phones-coming-to-usa-but-not-nokia-sea-ray/

and you will get my point.

http://cid-280a1538334a1cb9.profile.live.com/ Seika

Rarely saw news about smartphones from outside US (other than probably initial product launch and international events). More news about carriers in US than other countries, and does the success of smartphones like iPhone and the Androids published is mostly for US market ? Same with the search engine market share, US first.

Living outside the US, when doing research before shopping, usually I would stumble on American news or review sites first.

Might be logical that they focus on the place where it matter most, the place that will bring the the most buzz rather than for example, some 3rd world country that the internet doesn’t look at when deciding on which next smartphone to buy.
For example, the news publications seems to not punish Microsoft severely for their US only approach yet, raising the issue forward to make their readers aware of the disparity and sway even American buyers away for that mistake.
http://cid-280a1538334a1cb9.profile.live.com/ Seika

Rarely saw news about smartphones from outside US (other than probably initial product launch and international events). More news about carriers in US than other countries, and does the success of smartphones like iPhone and the Androids published is mostly for US market ? Same with the search engine market share, US first.

Living outside the US, when doing research before shopping, usually I would stumble on American news or review sites first.

Might be logical that they focus on the place where it matter most, the place that will bring the the most buzz rather than for example, some 3rd world country that the internet doesn’t look at when deciding on which next smartphone to buy.
For example, the news publications seems to not punish Microsoft severely for their US only approach yet, raising the issue forward to make their readers aware of the disparity and sway even American buyers away for that mistake.

Anonymous

It is a bold, bold announcement! A few painful month ahead, but let those stupid reporters say what he enjoy saying, they will shut up at the end.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Marco-Ruiz/741463237 Marco Ruiz

Having played around with the astound for a few minutes, I can’t say I’m really impressed. They were right to ditch Symbian, and with the right advertisement and product lineup, people will buy into WP7. But yeah seriously, we need this like NOW, the current windows phone hardware is almost a year old. Lastly, I hope the upgrade process for current windows phones is smooth and, perhaps more important, quick. Carriers have a nasty habit of holding this things back for months just to put in AT&T apps that most people would just delete anyways.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Shaun-Wignal/617841109 Shaun Wignal

Yup carriers like att hold back the up date for a extended time for no reason. But anyways I hope to see lots from Nokia and MS, my next phone will surely be a Nokia WP7 device as soon as I can upgrade.

http://profiles.google.com/bricko12 Bill Rickords

Maybe we can get them to develop a SYNC app for our Outlook via USB. Microsoft engineers are not competent enough apparently to write an app the used to have already. Why do I have to get an Apple phone to sync to my Outlook via USB.

Maybe Nokia can write one for them. But it really should be built into the Win7 OS and rolled out via Windows Update as an app that offers you choices of sync methods…via USB, via Cloud etc.
Anonymous

So the group from San Diago is responsible for designing the leaked Sea Ray, likely to be in ATT. If that is true, me not getting Sea Ray, will look for other WP7 device. Sea Ray, the look is good but the trouble will start when using the hardware button on supposedly leaked Sea Ray ( the huge flaw on Sea Ray). Possibility of hitting the hardware button most of the time while using the goriall screen.
Richard Durishin

Wait! Nokia sold Symbian phones in the US. Subsidized? Where?

Poor, poor David Potter.
Richard Durishin

Wait! Nokia sold Symbian phones in the US. Subsidized? Where?

Poor, poor David Potter.