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Nokia delayed the launch of the Nokia N8 from the original plan in late September into October. This announcement is surprising because only a lapse of less than a week since the product with another new phone line touted in the Nokia World event in London, England.

“In some countries, we plan to begin opening N8 reservations to consumers began in late September. To ensure the best experience for users, we decided to delay delivery for several weeks to make some improvements,” said an official statement released by Nokia, Tuesday (21 / 9 / 2010).

N8 is a product that uses the Nokia flagship operating system Sympyan ^ 3 for the mining time. This product was mentioned would be a serious competitor Apple’s iPhone and the Android based smartphone sejumalh that have been circulating on the market today.

N8 assess market analysts as a weapon Nokia to answer the challenge that Apple began to erode, especially in the realm of the smartphone market. Despite still master of the mobile phone market overall, the success or failure will determine the future N8 Nokia in the smartphone market continues to rise.

“A tool does not usually have an important influence for the development of Nokia. However, with the N8, the company had more opportunities,” said an analyst with FIM Bank. Therefore, N8 for the second time delay could be a bad precedent and threaten the revenue targets Nokia in the third quarter.

Nokia World 2010 which is a global-scale annual conference opened, Tuesday (14/09/2010). For this year’s conference took place in London, England, for two days.

Nokia World 2010 times was stressed at the meeting of the developers of applications, and also the discovery of new smart phone technology. This time followed by the 3000 conference participants.

In addition to presenting information technology experts, such as web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the conference also presented the inventor and developer of smart phone applications, especially Nokia.

The most talked about issue among the conference participants is replaced Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo by Stephen Elop as at 21 September. Substitution related Kallasvuo Nokia penetration plans in North America because Elop considered mastered American region to compete with other vendors

Left behind in the smartphone business, make Nokia restructure its company to compete with Apple iPhone, Google Android, and BlackBerry. The structure of the company Nokia is now split into three divisions, one focusing on the smartphone business.

All three new structure units were Mobile Solutions, Mobile Phones, and Markets. Mobile Solutions charge of high end mobile computers and MeeGo based smartphones and Symbian-with its content, applications and services. While mobile middle and low end that use the S40 platform is in charge of Mobile Phones unit. Markets division was charged for sales, marketing, and management.

Anssi Vanjoki previously held multimedia and mobile business start Tuesday (11/05/2010) was appointed to lead the division of Mobile Solutions. This separation is intended to accelerate the development of smartphones, and integrate services that also developed the Nokia.

Despite still market leader in mobile phone market, Nokia continues to experience pressure. according to Strategy Analytics, Nokia market share in the first quarter 2010 was around 40 per cent or increase 38.2 percent from the same period last year. However, Apple’s market share rose to 16.4 percent from 10.6 percent in the same period. Android based phones also continued to grow even predicted will become the second player in the smartphone market.

Although popularity of smartphones in the world increased, so far Nokia not interested in using Google’s Android platform made in the development of mobile products. Chris Carr, Vice President Sales Southeast Asia Pacific (SEAP) Nokia said in an interview Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday (2/23/2010) afternoon.

“There is no option to use Android right now,” said Chris Carr, shaking his head when asked about the possibility. He also said, Nokia does not feel threatened by the rising popularity of Android because for overall market share is still small.

Carr is optimistic with Nokia smartphone which has market share 40 percent. According to him, the future development of Symbian remain reliable in the increasingly tight competition. He said the Symbian version 3.0 which is the newest platform has much better capability than its predecessor.

“Symbian 3.0 will soon come with very large capacity,” said Carr. In a video presented on Monday (2/22/2010) night, Carr had a chance to show the main features of the Symbian 3.0. In the video can be seen that Symbian 3.0 has multitasking capabilities, improved graphics, faster access to the widget-based content, including magnification with a pinch to zoom.

On the other hand, Siemens is more interested in using Linux. Recently, in the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia and Intel have agreed to integrate the development of Linux-based platform that previously developed individual, namely Intel and Nokia Maemo Moblin, became MeeGo.

He said the next MeeGo will become a platform for computing products, Siemens, including tablets and netbooks. While Symbian will be focused on the development of smartphones. Nokia still has one more platform that the S series will be used for other product classes.