NOKIA: IS THIS THE RISE OF THE EMPIRE?

Hi Guys

I’m not much of a writer. I’m more of a thinker and swim in a pool of my thoughts most of the time.

I have been re-introduced into taking Nokia seriously of late and I have got some mixed emotions about the brand more than the devices, but I tend to fall in love with the brand more than any other Smartphone brand. I have worked for BlackBerry before and really believed that the company had a great future only if it followed the key innovation principles it started of with and hopefully would have expanded on. Sadly, right now, the future doesn’t look so great and it might end up like Motorola, just having to sell core components of its engine (BBM) to survive in contemporary culture.

So I would like to find out what you guys think of Nokia as a brand and as a device. DO THEY HAVE POTENTIAL TO BEAT APPLE AND SAMSUNG, OR ARE THEY JUST THROWING ALL OF THEIR CHIPS IN (WITH MICROSOFT) AND HOPING FOR THE BEST?

In addition to the above question, what needs to be done by such a once GREAT brand to thrive again in a market where it was once HELD THE THRONE for many years?

We were once the Nokia generation kids at some point, don’t act brand new on that. If you never played cricket with your 3310 then you didn’t take yours to the extreme levels.

Hope to hear from you all!

Mobile Shoppers, Infographic

When it comes to mobile shopping, China leads the way with 18% of Internet users who have made a mobile purchase in 2013:

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I now pronounce you: Microsoft and Nokia…

Since entering in a strategic partnership with Microsoft on Feb. 11, 2011, Nokia has lost 20% of the smartphone market:

Where do you see Microsoft and Nokia heading in the future?

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The RK1: the Robot for Kids/Kidults!

Image courtesy of TechCrunch

As you might have noticed from our most recent posts:

 

Techno Hobbyists are BACK

And they are taking the world by storm. Or perhaps, they aren’t doing so but they are definitely promulgating the movement towards it. This is a result of the recent hurricane of open-source-easily-programmable-electronic goodies that has swept us away over the past few weeks.

Here’s a recent addition to our collection:

The RK-1 Arduino-Based Mobile Robot

With this new gadget, you can program your childhood dream: a robot that can actually clean-up your room!

Or at least it will offer the foundations for such an invention. That’s the pivotal focus for most of these open source hardware projects: education. With such projects, children are allowed to try and realise all the thousands of inventions that they’ve BEEEN thinking of. And with so many projects available, the learning-curve is greatly shortened!

For just R 2,314.92 ($234) each device, you can then download the apps available on Google Play and the App Store onto your smart-device and start controlling the RK-1.

“And since Georgiou is following the example of other open source hardware hobbyist gadget sellers like Adafruit , there’s ample opportunity for cross-pollination with other similar projects, with built-in support in the ultimate companion app for sensors and breakout boards favored by the Arduino community.”

Now start imagining yourself Swiping your RK-1 to reach for the remote…

 

 

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