Nokia may slash prices across entire cell phone line this fall

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Nokia plans to drop prices across its entire product line this September in an attempt to bolster sales, industry insider Eldar Murtazin claimed on Friday. The struggling Finnish cell phone vendor will cut phone prices by 10% according to the Russian blogger, who has an extensive history of accurately reporting inside information pertaining to Nokia and other smartphone vendors. “Nokia are going to cut prices for the whole product line by 10 per cent in September,” Murtazin posted on his Twitter account. “They struggle for a market share worldwide.” Nokia’s share of the global cell phone market has been steadily declining as the company failed to adjust its strategy to the changing marketplace over the past few years. As a result, Nokia recently announced that it would dump its aging Symbian smartphone platform in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system moving forward. The vendor is expected to launch several new Symbian devices through the first half of 2012, but it will offer Windows Phones as well beginning later this year with a device codenamed “Sea Ray.”

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  • Anonymous

    Eldar has also spurted massive ammounts of crap. Take what he says with a pinch of salt.

  • http://twitter.com/NICKVALENTIN0 Nick Valentino

    Even if they gave them away free, I doubt I’d know anyone who would have one.

    • Walidshaaban

      i think u r a idiot…. icrap and android craps are only good as toys… Nokia smartphones are real smartphones… Check the upcoming N9 then come back and post ur BS…. now please go and change ur diapper….  u smelll

      • numetheus

        The world disagrees with you. Nokia Smartphones are things people don’t really want. If people agreed with you, their Meego or Symbian phones would be way on top. Where are they now? Rock bottom? They are hurting financially … so much so that they have committed to releasing phones with Windows Phone 7 rather than pushing their own brand heavily. Big developers release software for iPhone and Android … NOT anything Nokia releases. Personally I think YOU are an idiot for thinking you are right and the entire mobile industry is wrong.

      • Gimme MeeGo

        How can MeeGo phones be on the bottom when they are not in stores yet? That’s like saying that iPhone 5 is on rock bottom and people don’t want them.

        And symbian is not on the rock bottom. It’s still third most popular OS not that far away from iOS. Sure it’s going down in numbers, but it’s not even near the rock bottom. That bottom place is held by WP7. Now there’s really an OS that nobody wants. And the craziest thing is that Nokia picked the crappy, not selling WP7 over Symbian. If they had to quit Symbian (which I don’t agree with after seeing what the Belle update will do to Symbian’s UI/UX and to some key apps), they should have gotten Android instead.

        I think you’re the not-so-bright one here. Get your facts right before you make yourself a fool.

      • numetheus

        I was actually confusing it with Maemo. But even still. You must be a moron if you REALLY think Nokia smartphones are big here in the US. They may still be big in other countries … but in the US there will NEVER be a market for them. They are dying over seas. Good riddance for them. They will die soon and you will be stuck reading messages like this feeling like an idiot thinking …. “wow they were all right … I AM a putz.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UDULQFCLEXI4PRUQGIBNGEWVKQ John

    history will show they should have went with Android.  Elop has doomed them.

    • Anonymous

      Why? Android OEM’s do the same thing with there phones after a couple weeks. I was at a mall near me yesterday and android phones were free, fifty and one hundred at tmobile and Verizon. The HTC Sensation 4G and the Droid charge were among them. Didn’t they just come out?

    • Walidshaaban

      android…? lol… already it is fragmented and sued by Apple and will be sued by Nokia… Android had it days,,, WM is the new trend going forward!

  • Anonymous

    Is this for the new Windows Phones? Cause that’s the only way they are going to make any inroads into the Android/iOS dominated market.  

  • Anonymous

    Only 5 comments? Apparently no one gives a crap about nokia or windows phones.  true story™©®

    • Scottmac2232

      its a conspiracy, they want smart phone in everyones hands so they can track us. it all a lie crush the economy so they can speed up tracking tech

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    10% OF NOTHING.

  • DavidD

    10% price cut = Slashing!!!! Are you serious? 

    • http://twitter.com/pnguyen170 Phong Nguyen

      Thats funny, I never realized that there was a cut off value for difference between price cut and “slashing prices”. OMFG11!!1 just because the term “slashing” gives the impression that Nokia is in dire situations you critique the article? Oh yeah Nokia is in tops right now right? Oh wait, they’re not. Get over it, Nokia is old news. They are in desperate need of market share and revenue so they are indeed slashing prices. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/amartincolby Aaron Martin-Colby

    This won’t do shit. I like Nokia. I really do. Until my current Sony, I had 100% Nokias going back nearly a decade. But this won’t do shit.

    Nokia has lost 100% of the alpha consumers, since they are the ones who are most aware that Windows Phone 7 is coming. If they slashed prices by 30% or more, they might, MIGHT, net some extra market share.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FCAHRME4VEZJ6VHOAK2GIJ2ENY Elaine Morin

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    Their getting rid of their Symbian phones so they can make room for their Windows Phone 7. I still wouldn’t buy a phone from Nokia. They used to make better phones back then. I remember I used to have the NOKIA 3800 music phone best phone i have from Nokia

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