Nokia is NOT a has-been of the mobile world

I was reading a blog post by a fellow ZDNet blogger and was a bit shocked to read one of his sentences regarding Nokia. As you can see in Andrew’s Motorola Android post he wrote about Motorola and Nokia, “No matter how many zany handsets the company produces, it remains (along with Nokia) as the has-beens of the mobile world.” Hey Andrew, just because you are here in the US and don’t have ready access to all of Nokia’s great devices does NOT mean Nokia is a has-been and this statement is a bit ridiculous.

While others (Apple, Google, and RIM) are gaining marketshare, Nokia is still the clear majority leader in the worldwide smartphone market. Nokia has different form factors to meet the needs of a huge variety of users, their devices have the best phone performance of all smartphones, most of their smartphones are rock solid, many are available for free outside the US, their phones are quite open when it comes to wireless technologies (Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS), and there is some very exciting times ahead. The Nokia N97 is launching soon, along with the Ovi Store and both of these releases may have a significant impact on solidifying and increasing Nokia’s worldwide marketshare.

I don’t understand why Andrew made that statement about Nokia. I can understand if he was referring to Nokia’s presence in the US, but I think that will improve in the future and still doesn’t make Nokia a has-been.