In less than a week, Nokia Connection to reveal ‘market disrupting device’?
Mark Guim from TheNokiaBlog has noticed that some folks are getting invites to the Nokia Connect event taking place in under a week, June 21st.
One of these include ITWire who says they have received an invite. Supposedly, “Nokia has promised a disruptive new device.” These folks reckon Nokia will be giving a live demo of the device. The type of device is not specified.
What we know:
- New products and services launches.
- New “mobile phones” will be launched to secure low end – Head of Mobile Phones unit, Mary McDowell is there to do so.
- A batch of S40 phones are coming
- Nokia Conversations a few weeks ago said that we’d find out more about Jesse’s girl in the coming weeks. RM-680 confidentiality ends around this time.
- MeeGo is part of the new disruptions pillar
- Windows Phone is Nokia’s main smartphone platform. It will come with Mango – which is not due until fall.
- Nokia World is in Fall.
- At the time we heard about Nokia Connection, Nokia said THAT was their biggest event of the year.
- I’m very much looking forward to what Elop will be saying, possibly more so what Marko Ahtisaari has to say. He was the first guy remember to hint about a Nokia partnership with MS back in DECEMBER 2010. He said they’ll only release MeeGo when it’s Amazing (and also said that unlike other platforms, WP was a new paradigm, something Nokia could add value to)
- Marko will talk about: Nokia’s design strategy and the principles behind innovative new smartphones.
With the industry watching Nokia with negative eyes, Nokia needs an almighty shock and awe comeback. No dithering, no compromises, no delays. It needs to come back with a bang and let people know, not just “wow Nokia, welcome back to the competition” but let competitors know “ok, this might actually be a genuine threat to us”. There are more factors now than simply making a great device, but let’s take some baby steps first and get one of those out of the nest.
So, seems like a S40/MeeGo thing. Elop will be talking about Windows Phone but reiterating the strategy and just updating on the partnership with MS and the new ecosystem, but it seems that’s as far as it will go. Nokia World perhaps for WP unwillingness.
I’m all for a MeeGo launch. We’ve waited for the N9 saviour phone for so long and all rumours/speculations suggest it’s something truly awesome. I am a little concerned though with what traction N9 would get given the shift in focus to WP and MeeGo’s relegation to Research status. Having a WP launch would be better, but why Singapore and why now (it’s much too early given Mango is not due until Fall).
Mark Guim says he’s also hoping for some Windows Phone too. I guess if a success, WP could be very much a market disrupting force too.
What are your predictions for Nokia Connection/June 21st?
ITWire via TheNokiaBlog
Thanks to mprince for the tip!
Category: MeeGo, Nokia, Windows Phone
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Well, simple math:
1) Mango wont be out until fall
2) Nokia WP7 devices will be running Mango
–> 1 & 2: Not a WP7 device
3) I dont think they would have used the word ‘disruptive’ for a Symbian phone.
–> 3: Not a Symbian device
So.. fingers crossed.. Nokia N9.. Cmn already
Agreed. Although worth remembering there is HUGE potential to be disruptive in the featurephone/low end space at the moment. It will be several years before Android hits the mark there, and with Nokia’s abilities and experience they could head off an Android influx before it arrives. Totally insane they ditched Symbian as it was headed for this space, and could have ruled it, but there is still hope if they keep upgrading S40.
True. If Nokia does something amazing with S40, they could have a much stronger hold of low-end and prevent Android getting there (like they could have done with mid-high)
Meego will overtake WP7 watch LOL well Maemo 5.5 watch as soon as N9/N950 comes out PEOPLE WILL BUY IT
you got it!
+1
I sure won’t, unless it comes with a physical QWERTY and equal or better Microsoft Office integration than Windows Phone.
Exactly what i have been saying , I just can’t see anyone buying wp7 against the n9 . Time will tell
it is for this reason i believe elop wants the n9 to fail.
hence it is sure to have no 12mp camera, no dual core, no fx transmitter/receiver, no support, etc etc
that way when nokia release a w8 phone, it will have 12mp or better, support, perhaps fx transmitter, i dont think they are allowed dual core due to microsoft restrictions ( although this may be wrong)
the bottom line it the windows phone needs to blow everything else out of the water, so it sells better than everything else. elop will make sure that happens, even if it means pushing out a behind the times n9 phone first.
I can probably guess that this will be prohibitively expensive but utilising some very interesting technologies as a display of what the company CAN do.
“prohibitively expensive” I like the sound of that. I want to see what Nokia can do. Talk prices later :p
Forget pricing, lets see a top end product with the works. Many of us are prepared to pay a premium for it.
That’s pretty much what my post says (or was trying to say…it’s 3am :S I think we’re saying the same thing
)
Exactly I don’t mind paying an arm and a leg if it will be so out of this world and with such new technology noone else has it. I’m hoping for really cool features and media capabilities. PLay anything at hd quality and output to tv, maybe evena pico projector would be cool, qwerty keyboard, and maybe that new touchscreen texture technology where u can feel the keyboard on the screen. Better have tons of RAM and powerful graphics and CPU otherwise i’m not buying if it will be anemic and slow cause then the entire phone will go to waste. Dual cortex A9 +1GHz, +1GB RAM fingers crossed
Well if this is prohibitively expensive, it is dead on arrival. In order for a device to be considered “disruptive” t needs to be priced well enough where millions of people can buy it. I don’t have my hopes high for this. Nokia constantly overhypes it’s software and they fail to deliver. I’m waiting for their first windows phone. That’s the only thing worth buying from Nokia at this point.
have you even tried Maemo 5/n900 yet….if mine never broke i wouldn’t need a laptop or my N8 right now that’s how good the damn OS and device was…..except the stupi 1320Mah Battery foolishly put in….it should have been 1500Mah atleast….i was hoping last year for an upgraded model but 2 years later it happens i hope the battery life it much better on this model cause Maemo5 is a Beast of an OS…….basically it’s LinuxMint(touch) on a handsized tablet w/keyboad,GPS and Phone functions
broke? Is it the usb port?
yep
a day right before the news about it on engadget posted it on their site
The broken USB port thing was sad. My Nokia phones sometimes take a bump, fall off while on charger, but nothing ever broke. N900 started becoming loose and then BAM.
Nokia repair were really quick though. 6 days, free shipping, no charge, new handset from Finland (no, it’s not special service for being a blogger :p such information doesn’t reach the repair folks)
I had same situation. The MicroUSB port was detached from motherboard. Then i received brand new handset from NCC UK after i sent for repair.
I still hope for a Mint 11 ARM port… My N900 is thriving for it!
The iPhone is the most expensive phone ever, and yet it has been very successful.
I do not see it that way , If Elop is “genius” enough to realize his feet are on fire then he can’t be dumb enough to price the phone above the reach of the Mainstream “smartphone” buyers
I don’t have anything to add, but could you please change all “Fall” references to “Autumn” since it’s in proper English
What does Fall mean?
I only know Autumn
Fall= autum…..falling leaves(Fall)
lol, I was thinking the same.
+1. Written by Andre, fall would be acceptable. Written by Jay on a UK blog, it REALLY should be Autumn.
Sorry for the mix up guys,
Even though I’m a UK based now, I was brought up with American English (Philippines).
It creeps in every now and again. School was odd learning that I’m pronouncing Tomato/Potato/vitamins/aluminium wrong. Ha think I still pronounce vitamin, “VYtamin”
Don’t worry Jay, you’re doing it right
+1. I hate the word Fall
I still believe that give Nokia a couple of years and they’ll be back to their glory years.
It’s about the “Next billion” thing. Nothing else. Exclusively S40 event.
first comment to make sense..
from nokia’s record latley, they make too many title mistakes with their events…
making people hope for too much(or should i say hope for the obvious?) and at the end nokia delivers something completely different and retarded..
but wait, good news everyone, anna is coming in the coming month(s)..
Months? hope not, already waited 8mths now..
Mid to late July is the latest. lol.
Not sure a year was specifically mentioned tho so that’s probably July 2012
nope. anna has been announced with july 2011 release. http://www.lovemynokia.com has a post. the source is nokia france.
That is NOT official Nokia France. That is another facebook page.
It is only on Official Nokia France’s wall as someone else posted to the new facebook france page.
That could happen, I remember a Nokia person saying that the event was locally orientated and less international.
However, a top-end device is what Nokia needs right now. So here’s hoping for the best.
Their Meego device is the only thing from Nokia that interests me anymore. If they release an N8 sucessor with Symbian Belle device, a resolution that isn’t nHD and has a better SOC it might interest me too, but it depends on when they launch it.
Let’s hope whatever they announce gets a speedy release date that would be a better sign of Nokia changing for the better rather than more devices.
Why is everyone assuming its a mobile phone? it could be any thing from a tracker, through a tablet to a netbook.
It’s good that something is coming out, even though Meego supporters would obviously like more devices, and with hw keyboard especially
I assure you: No Meego Phone this year! The management doesn’t want to distract its laser focus on Win Phones.
I fear the same thing…
Perhaps this is the reason why CTO Rich Green left.
BUT if they don´t show something great this year NOKIA won´t have offered ANY flagship device in 2011 – so I´m still hoping for ION =)
You are right. I doubt that any Meego Phone will be launched at all in near future!
You are almost 100% sure wrong. There will be one device (plus, MAYBE, the qwerty limited edition/developer model).
I think is going to be the windows pone, Elop said he will give announcements of new products when those ha no more han 6 months ti be released, considering we are in June, December is just 6 months from now.
No, he said that no more announcing products six months before they hit the shelves. I think the aim is somewhere between a few weeks to a month or two.
certain people assured me that on the 21st
N9 will pop out of the box.
but nokia inside sources have proven wrong in the past so I’m not holding my breath abput it
Where is that lg meego phone?
@iphone stole nokia techs,
forget lg.
Nokia rox.
We´ll see that.
If LG follows the path of producing Meego phones with up to date specs and Nokia abandons Maemo/Meego plans then LG is the way to go.
+1 … I agree … Meego is what we are looking for … not an updated Symbian phone. So if Nokia is leaving this Meego devices stuff, let’s look at others.
you make me think of something,
if that is exactly what LG is hoping,ensure that Nokia does not launch anything meego,for them (LG)be the first and so capture more attention
What if the deal with Microsoft gives Nokia dips on Mango? If they could get it in advance, say, a month, we could get a WP Nokia in Q3? Just speculating.
I doubt that:
Other WinPhone Manufacturers like HTC and Samsung won´t accept this. They have been offering the least successful smartphone OS on the market since the first day – if they are treated like that they would abandon WinPhone very fast.
The ‘Mango’ release won’t be finalized before September.. So only after that will there be device releases or updates.
It would be interesting if that were the case. Not sure MS has the time though to finish Mango so soon.
good going Nokia!!
LOL, “Market disruptive”, they should’ve called it “Universe disruptive”, that’s more dramatic.
Not only is the N9 NOT market disruptive but on the contrary, it’s absolutely irrelevant to the market, won’t make a dent.
Here’s what it’ll be: More empty promises, more waiting, but underwhelming, underpowered and outdated devices, but Nokia fans are used to that.
Grow up. Please.
His mind is already blown by a mindblowing S40 Device…
He is lost…
*pat*
why does no one bother to read around?
come on people.. we’ve known the n950/n9 would be announced this month for about half a year now.. we’ve also known that MeeGo 1.3 will support american radio standards (CDMA etc.) and is out in October
there will be no device in north america until after that release.
that release will probably co-incide with release of meego device to allow of traction to gain and then push to america once the update has been completed.
Maybe Nokia didn’t like the slow development of Intel in “classical MeeGo(Moblin)/Fedora” and uses a Maemo/Debian kernel with MeeGo compatibility called Maemo 6 Harmattan.
Maybe they went from Intel Atom to ARM Chips in cause of the Problems of Intel with their Atom.
For me, it isn’t a reason to flame it, but the “not finished” MeeGo isn’t a reason for a non existing oder not finished N9/N950.
Greetings from Switzerland
PS: English isn’t my main Language…
I think the June 21 launch will be the N950 / N9 device as featured on the leaked videos and subject to the FCC non-disclosure – it all fits.
All that remains to be argued over is the OS and the final spec;
Nokia have publuicly distanced themselves from Meego. They had to; they have declared WP as their primary smartphone platform and that’s probably part of the deal with MS – stay away from Meego if you want to use our software.
It is too early for a WP Mango device – that’s scheduled for Q4 this year in line with Mango’s release.
Symbian is not a platform for disruptive technologies, so it won’t be anything like a dual-core E7 replacement – that’d be too early anyway.
That leaves Harmattan – the once-proposed successor to Frematle (Maemo 5 as used on N900) with a Meego core and Meego-compatible API’s
An N950 with Harmattan ticks all the boxes for me – no conflict in message with WP development, would not be a mass-seller to compete with existing Symbian devices, would be useful to demonstrate new concepts & technologies, etc.
I’m hoping for the 12MPx AF camera from the N8 (still have concerns it might be EDoF, though), dual speakers, capacitive display comparable to CBD, Micro-SD card slot and the BP-4L Hero battery.
Here’s to hoping..!
Bth the qwerty (if released in the end) and non-qwerty model have AF cameras. 12MP and 8MP, respectively, LEDs on both.
AFAIK, no micro SD in at least the non-qwerty one.
well eldar just confirmed that nokia will launch the last maemo device on june 21st. Mystery solved.
http://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/80949300753989632
Is Eldar to believed?
One word. 2 letters. Starts with ‘N’ and ends with ‘O’.
Eldar being not to positive about Nokia lately, this could be seen as a very good sign
Adding rumors based on rumors that emerged from trusted sources which are not available…
Let’s wait for another six days then we’ll know. Damn that’s gonna be six veeeeeery long days
Because we all believe everything Eldar says don’t we?
Sigh…
Hate to say this but Eldar’s is very likely to be correct on this one.
Do you mean that Nokia cancelled the non qwerty version or that it is going to be Meego, not Maemo?
It can’t be so that Nokia is going to deliver only 92k non qwerty device.
Sorry, I meant the consumer oriented non-qwerty model.
They may indeed also release the “limited edition” qwerty model.
Ok, so where exactly did Nokia say/promise a disruptive device? Some blogger saying that does not equate Nokia having said that.
In any event, if a higher end device is announced, its almost certainly the N9/consumer Maemo/Meego device. It’s specs and materials are for sure more than fine, and the UI is looking great, but I am not expecting anything truly disruptive from it.
So, I don’t expect and nor should you expect antything more than that.
I hope to be proven wrong of course!
Would love to see that:
http://research.nokia.com/publication/11833
correct me if im wrong but didnt some guy say a couple of months ago that we shuld expect great things from symbian and that hes excited? im still waiting for tht excitement. my nokia blog had a article about it months ago
wicked, I’m invited to local Nokia event on June 21… can’t wait what it’s all going to be about!
I had the great pleasure to play with the new Nokia Ion (n9, lankku). It has a beautiful curved screen 3.9 inch, front and back facing(8mp) cameras, USB, MMC Slot, 64 Gb on board..No HDMI sadly, NFC. It truely is a WOW phone 95 % screen NOKIA has a master piece with this one. meego seemed fairly stable, but could use some refinement, still a fantastic open source OS…. Smoke’em if you got them