There was a time when most of the Indian mobile market
was covered with only one brand 'NOKIA'. The phones had everything from common
calling options to various applications supports. Samsung, Sony and Motorolo
were just a bystanders in front of the Nokia traffic. The only competitions
Nokia had would have been I phones and that to as a status symbol.
Then came the Android platform and Nokia all of a sudden
had, not one but many competitors in Samsung, Sony along with new companies
like Micromax, Karbonn. The mere fact that Nokia was not willing to embrace
Android may have been the reason for the decline of its market.
Nokia has always managed to
make a low-cost handset with its Symbian platform for its low-end markets and
when google's Android came they shifted to windows platform. Together they came
up with Lumia series, but it was not made for low-end markets that was once
ruled by Nokia itself. With the world shifting from feature phones to
smartphone and with Micromax, Samsung, Karbonn and Moto E bringing out low-cost
Android phones, Windows
Phone growth was very slow for Nokia.
Before
being completely taken over by Microsoft, Nokia launched the X handset with
Android platform for low-end markets. putting Microsoft into a tricky situation
of whether keeping it or abandoning it. And that would be the last of the
Nokia's many models of phones made for the low-end markets.Like a goodbye gifts for us.
