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Nokia Eyes The Laptop Market |
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Written by wbg friend
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 04:00 |
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Authors: Not content with ruling the mobile phone market, it seems Nokia has set its world-conquering eye on the cut-throat laptop arena. It certainly seems like a strange move but when you have Nokia's clout, it's no idle threat, especially when it's the CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo talking. Speaking to Finnish national broadcaster YLE yesterday, Kallasvuo said: "We are looking very actively also at this opportunity. We don't have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging. Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication." The photo above shows Nokia's new concept mini computer device, codenamed Sparrow, due in 2011.His comments come just a few weeks after laptop maker Acer announced its first attack on the mobile phone sector with 8 new models. That said, the laptop arena might still be growing but it's incredibly competitive and margins aren't what they used to be. And, considering that most laptops are made by just a few contract suppliers in the Far East, just how different could a Nokia laptop be? So, Nokia laptops: good, bad or indifferent?-Martin Lynch [Reuters] laptops mobile phone nokia
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