Monday, April 16, 2012

Nokia's done with their Beta Testing.

You'd hope they'd be done by now with the beta testing of their customers.  First it was the Meego N9 phone from Nokia.  Then it was the Windows Phone Lumia 800.  Now it's the Windows Phone Lumia 900.

Oh wait, they were referring to the OTHER phones out there, including other WP phones?  Well, you would have never guessed it, looking at Nokia's own lineup.



Don't ask me which one's the Lumia 800 and which one's the 900...I purposely left it ambiguous to make the point!

I don't see how Nokia will increase WP's market share with the Lumia 900.  What's really going to happen, is that the Lumia 900 will displace Lumia 800 and other WP handset sales.

I just checked, and Verizon's carrying just one WP model online: the HTC Trophy in new and refurbished forms.  T-Mobile's got two: the Nokia Lumia 710 and HTC Radar 4G.  AT&T has five models online: Samsung Focus Flash (new and refurbished), Samsung Focus S, HTC Titan and the HTC Titan II, and of course the Nokia Lumia 900.

For those folks in Canada, Rogers has just two WP models online: the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Lumia 900.  Telus has just one WP phone online: the Nokia Lumia 800.  Bell has no WP phones online.

I'm somewhat taken aback, because I swear there were more models available just six months ago, from all the carriers.

Maybe the carriers are waiting for Microsoft's end of the beta testing period?  ;)

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