Nokia announced Tuesday, September 21 have, for the second time, decided to postpone the marketing of its new flagship model N8. «To ensure an excellent use, we decided to delay deliveries of some weeks to make some recent changes,» said the world's largest maker of mobile phones in a statement, adding that the N8 would be available in October.
The N8 is seen by analysts as the first top model from Nokia really can rival Apple's iPhone, and it represents a considerable challenge for the group's margins. Nokia has announced the further postponement few days after its annual Nokia World «presentation of new models, which took place last week. It's embarrassing,» said John Strand, CEO of Danish cabinet telecommunications consultancy Strand Consult.
N8 smartphone, the first model from Nokia with the new version of the Symbian operating system, was originally scheduled to be launched in June But in April, Nokia had said that updating the software required more time than expected due to quality problems and the N8 would therefore be launched in September. The announcement of further delay comes the same day of the inauguration of Stephen Elop, the new CEO of Nokia come from Microsoft, one of whose main tasks will be to strengthen the Group's offer on the strategic segment of smartphones.
The N8 has a 12 megapixel camera, and thus better quality than competing models directly, but its processor is slower than the Samsung S Galaxy or the latest version of the iPhone.
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