Microsoft bought Nokia's Device Division and Services

Today on 3rd of September, Microsoft bought most of Nokia for 5.44 Billion Euro. 

Microsoft has made it self a key player in the Device manufacturing industry with one brilliant move, with this Microsoft has end to end control. Now they need to improve the software part, they acquired one of the best hardware making company in the world.

Some people might compare it with Google's acquisition of Motorola this is different  but comparable as Nokia and Motorola are a gold mine of Patents. There are many differences between the two, Nokia is not dead yet. In Asia it is still one of the respected Companies and Motorola's days were over when Google bought it, this means Microsoft doesn't have to do much to revive it

Nokia will now focus on technologies which are built around smartphones(its Sad) like Here Maps although they have licensed it to Microsoft for the next 4 years, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is also heading back to Microsoft, not sure what he will do there but there will be a lot of changes as Steve Ballmer also announced his retirement few days ago.

But can Microsoft succeed where Nokia failed? Was Nokia holding Windows Phone back, or was Windows Phone the problem? The big questions aren't going away, but maybe now we'll get answers.

Many people will be upset because of this news but I will say "this is really not the end of Nokia, that happened years ago" today they successfully sold a sinking ship at a good price, there will also be a few people who will say they could have made some android phones and repaired their ship, well to that it was already a little too late... 

This is positive news for Microsoft and Microsoft alone nobody else has anything to gain from it.

Story of the Samsung Galaxy

Samsung released the first galaxy phone back in 2009 but since then its light years ahead already. Galaxy series helped Samsung put itself on the map, the first Galaxy phone was just known as Samsung Galaxy, it was Samsung's first Android phone. It didn't had much horsepower in it which limited it to Android 1.5 due to which it received a lot of criticism from Galaxy users.

In 2010 Samsung announced the Galaxy S, it was received well by its customers. Galaxy S didn't had any shortcomings which made it a true powerful flagship phone for the Korean giant. This phone was not upgraded to Android 4.0 but considering it was released in 2010, it was still  pretty incredible. It was the first time when anyone gave iPhone some sort of competition. Now it was time for Samsung to announce another Galaxy S phone to  rule the market, they Announced Galaxy SII in may of 2011, it had a  creative design, latest Android version all signs of a true Flagship phone. It was a successful phone which gave iPhone a strong competition but Samsung wasn't done yet they announced Galaxy Note, which created a segment of its own. It was the Phablet neither a Phone neither a tablet, its features like S-Pen made it one of the innovative phone of all times. Then Google partnered with Samsung to make their very own Nexus phone known as Galaxy Nexus,  it was the first device to run on the latest Android 4.0, which can even be upgraded to the latest Android O.S, it was successful in generating a high level of expectation and it was received well by all its critics.

Samsung launched the Galaxy SIII at Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in may of 2012. It received well by everyone, about 9 million Galaxy III were pre-ordered in two weeks, making it one of the fastest-selling gadget of all times but the calendar year was not ever for Samsung yet, the released Galaxy Note II in September which was destined to be successful  like its older brother,  the original Galaxy Note. Samsung recently released their latest galaxy S offering  the Galaxy S4, this phone also received a warm welcome by its customers but a lot of criticism from its critics saying it has the same design as the Galaxy SIII. Samsung has been on a roll since last 4 years and they have worked hard for their success, which makes them a true Champion. Samsung has done right everything to be on driver seat of Mobile Phone industry, they give something new and innovative to the industry every year.

Firefox O.S : New kid on the block

Mozilla Corporation's Firefox after being one of the most popular web browser, just entered the race of mobile operating system with their recent announcement of Firefox O.S, they are following google's footsteps by making the O.S open source hence making it more easily accessible to a range of Mobile Phone manufacturing companies in the future, currently Mozilla is only offering two Developer Phones, the Keon and Peak. 

Keon runs on a single core 1Ghz Qualcomm processor packs 512MB  RAM, 4GB internal memory, 3 megapixel camera and 3.5" screen, however Peak runs on 1.2Ghz dual-core processor, offers the same memory as Keon but includes 4" screen, an 8 megapixel back camera and a 2 megapixel front camera. Keon and Peak, both of the phones are available on sale at "geeksphone.com" at $119 and $195 respectively although both of the phones were sold out in a matter of hours but they later reappeared on the website.

Firefox O.S already has several partners including names like, Facebook, Twitter, ebay, Electronic Arts, Disney, LG and Qualcomm also considering the fact the two developers phones were sold out in a few hours, there might be a future for Firefox O.S in the market which is now dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS.

Nokia trying to reconnect with people

I was a Nokia fanboy three years ago. I have changed many phones since then and none of them were Nokia made. They lost their charm sometime back and the reason was Symbian O.S it was good but not good enough. Today people in India are not looking forward towards Nokia,  most people will say because Nokia made phones don't run on Android or Nokia Sucks.

They were just lazy not that they didn't release anything good, they came up with Pureview and N9 but they didn't try to evolve themselves and in the end people were bored with their O.S.

A change is required always, I believe this will be the reason for iPhone's downfall.

Nokia tried their best last year with Lumia series when they announced it, I was excited I wanted to get one for me but I didn't bought one , simple reasons lack of features. I wanted front camera (don't laugh I actually use it) and they didn't gave me one, so I bought HTC Radar (best decision ever),  many people bought the gorgeous looking Lumia 900 but they still managed to scare everyone again when Microsoft announced any phone running on Windows Phone 7 won't be upgraded.


Nokia needs to win people's trust again, they make the best Hardware all they need is support from Microsoft to stay in the race. This year they are releasing their Windows Phone 8 lineup which is impressive so far, but they need to do a lot more to bring back their old customers who now prefer other brand over Nokia.