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Nokia steals DELL's dummy from the smartphone pram
<b>Dell backs away from smartphone plans</b>
[blockquote]Dell has backed away from its smartphone plans, outlined last summer, and ruled out any attack on the handset market, despite its overall ambition of becoming a consumer electronics major.
Chief operating officer Kevin Rollins said this week that the presence of Nokia would make handsets a difficult market to break into and that the sector is less attractive than other consumer devices because so much profit and balance of power goes to the mobile operators.
The comments came against a background of a major push into the consumer market by Dell, with Rollins claiming he is after market share of 30-40% in the main sectors where the company will operate. Clearly, such a share would be impossible to achieve in handsets. [/blockquote]
<b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/33343.html" target="_new">El Reg</a>
[blockquote]Dell has backed away from its smartphone plans, outlined last summer, and ruled out any attack on the handset market, despite its overall ambition of becoming a consumer electronics major.
Chief operating officer Kevin Rollins said this week that the presence of Nokia would make handsets a difficult market to break into and that the sector is less attractive than other consumer devices because so much profit and balance of power goes to the mobile operators.
The comments came against a background of a major push into the consumer market by Dell, with Rollins claiming he is after market share of 30-40% in the main sectors where the company will operate. Clearly, such a share would be impossible to achieve in handsets. [/blockquote]
<b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/33343.html" target="_new">El Reg</a>
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It's DELL's choice of firmware partner (Microsoft) that is the problem