Nokia - Bye!

[Duce]

7 million phones sold in one quarter isn't anything to sneeze at, John.  They are number three in the market, and number one in Latin America.  You make it sound like Nokia and MS are sitting on street corners in cities all over the world begging people to take W8 phones for free and people aren't taking them, while the independent, confirmed sales figures say otherwise.  Have you tried a Windows Phone?  A Windows Phone 8...  Not a 5 year old Treo running Windows Mobile 6.  At a reported $10 license fee for each handset sold, MS isn't exactly losing money on Win Phone.

I honestly think most people would really like the Nokia 1020 if they tried it.
If I wasn't so entrenched in the Android world right now I'd gladly give one a shot.  I used one recently and was quite impressed at how snappy it was, and the 41 MP camera in the 1020 is just great.

[Duce]

You're right, Kickstart - on a global scale, Nokia was a major player in the mobile market for years, especially in Europe.

Within North America, we mainly only ever saw Nokia feature phones.  Was very few, if any - carriers that offered subsidized Nokia smartphones, which forced North Americans to pay $800 for unlocked Nokia smartphones if we wanted them, so they never were widespread here.  IIRC, I paid well over $700 for my unlocked N95 in 2007 or so.

I had a N95 and a 9300, and still have a Nokia 770 Tablet - best hardware in the industry came from Nokia, imo.