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Nokia's stunning nose dive
Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 07:22 AM EST

According to the charts you linked to, Nokia was down in market share for the calender year by 54.6%. That is an incredible contraction.

Of course it can be understood that all they had to offer until Q4 was the old orphaned Windows 7 phones which they sold to a few unsuspecting beta testers. Once it was learned that the phone would be not upgraded to Windows 8, even the most gullible stopped buying.

Then of course things changed when the new Windows 8 phone came out. Sales immediately dropped by 24%.

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Huawei Nr.3 Smartphone Vendor Q4 2012 - I can understand why
Authored by: Kilz on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 07:30 AM EST
A about a year a half ago my daughter upgraded her phone to
a LG MyTouch, her first android phone. It has been replaced
5 times. The first time within a month because the power
receptacle in the phone broke.
The phone started just turning off by itself. After the 5th
time TMobile told us they were not going to replace it for
free but it would be a $50 charge to fix it.
My daughter had had enough of the My Touch. I told her that
any payments for broken phones were her responsibility. She
talked to a friend who told her that any tmobile pay as you
go phone could be used on her plan, just swap out the sim
card.
She bought a Huawei Prism on sale at walmart for less than
the replacement of the LG. Its been 3 months and she loves
it. It doesnt have all the flashy stuff, and it isnt paper
thin. But it works, and is very well built. No problems at
all and she is not easy on phones.
If Huawei makes phones that work and are rugged enough for a
19 year old who uses it constantly and drops it occasionally
they will take market share.

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