If Nokia Lumia smartphones with Android had been released, were the devices easier to sell. European providers find the Lumia phones are not good enough, so says Reuters news agency after a belrondje under the telco’s.
Providers have various problems with the Lumia phones, claims Reuters, based on anonymous sources in the four major European telco’s. The phones would be too expensive for a “non-innovative product”, there would be a shortage of marketing budget to Nokia to sell phones and the devices would suffer from a bad image because of the battery problems were with the release. That last is especially true for the Lumia 800. After the third update, which last month came out, is that issue solved.
Moreover, it would be Nokia themselves, by the alliance with Microsoft is a double challenge. Both Nokia as Microsoft was making a comeback on the smartphone market. In addition, ‘nobody comes to a store to ask for a Windows Phone”. For all these reasons, the Lumia series, the competition with the iPhone and Android smartphones, according to the providers.
Nokia would Android have tried on are devices, something which last year’s photos are leaked. A source claims the opposite Tweakers.net a prototype of the N9 with Android to have seen. Nokia decided, however, with Microsoft into the sea to go. More than one-third of the tweakers that last week on a poll have voted, saw a Lumia with Android also sit.
