This is a horribly late (2 months to be exact) post, so I'll get right down to it.
I attended a Globe + Nokia event at GB5 for the launching of Nokia's environment related campaign to address how old cellphones are disposed of. It's innovative in the sense it gives credit to people who do that, via these drop off containers that will be placed at Globe branches (or is probably there already considering how late this is):
Amazing how things have transpired over at Nokia in the past few days.
First, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop released his 'Burning Platform' memo, purportedly only for Nokia employees but obviously easily leaked on after (as planned?). It's a fantastic read that sparked hope that things would change for the mobile giant whom Elop himself described as 'lost market share, lost mind share and lost time'. I couldn't get enough of it and read it several times the day it came out. In the era of the well - crafted press release, memes and fake virals, I felt it was an honest breath of fresh air. If I were a Nokia developer I would have truly been excited, especially in the light of its failure to keep up with everyone else and the positive changes it promised.
A few days later though, I received a bombshell of a Press Release from Nokia, entitled "Nokia and Microsoft announce plans for a broad strategic partnership to build a new global ecosystem [PR link]'. I was dumbfounded. 'NO Stephen!', I felt like shouting, thinking naively that maybe the man had sold to an MS sales pitch and maybe it was all a knee jerk reaction to wanting to change things asap. Soon as I read the whole thing though, doubt started to creep in. It smelled like a pre - planned move.
Times like these are when I'm glad I'm not a gadget-head. LG and Nokia both released simultaneous one - day sales for today, Nov. 13, 2010. Nokia promised to sell their C6 for only P6,490.00, while LG was selling their Optimus One phone at half price for only P12,990.00.
It turned out both sales were too good to be true. At this very moment, the local internet is on fire with complaints as to how both brands were unable to provide enough phones or even accommodate the thousands that showed up at their stores all over the country. Abe Olandres wrote about the 'aftermath' of the sale, and already there are close to 200 comments, nearly all of which condemn both sales, particularly LG, for not having foreseen the multitudes that showed up.
Emotions run high and there is already talk about mass collective action to bring the situation to the DTI. LG's facebook page has also been 'under attack' from irate commenters as well.
Had a great time seeing old friends at the well - attended Nokia C3 Launch last week, where we were fairly well entertained by the school motif they adopted to launch the C3.
And what a well thought of phone this is.
Nokia has recently come out with their Nokia X6, and now Sony Ericsson just recently announced their Xperia X10 for the Philippine Market.
Last Thursday, July 25th, the Nokia N97 was launched to the press. First impression was how light and relatively small it was considering all it could do. Consider: Both touch and qwerty capabilities, 5mp, 48gb (32gb internal) capacity and what promised to be a quick, responsive operating system that best makes use of its HSDPA and WLAN capabilities (ie, accessing Facebook, Flickr and such), all accessible on 3.5" of LCD real estate.
If it's anything I hate it's forgetting to post stuff. And what's worse is if I did it 2x in a row! Here's the first one, a Nokia N97 pre order promo that's ending today:
Details from the Press Release:
Nokia 5130 XpressMusic: music made affordable
In today's trying times, the wiser look for things that get more bang for their money. But having to scrimp doesn't mean you can't get the mobile phone of your musical dreams.
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