Nokia Laptops Coming ?

Industry has rumored about Nokia’s possible plan to enter the PC industry since late last year. According to latest reports by Reuters, that may be true. The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.

“We are looking very actively also at this opportunity,” Kallasvuo said, when asked whether Nokia plans to make laptops.

“We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a cellphone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging,” Kallasvuo said.

Although this may increase competition in the laptop market which is a good thing, but we are not so sure how good it would be for Nokia to enter the low-margin computer industry.

Nokia maybe nervous about entering a market segment that is already heavily commoditized, but it would be in a position to exploit its enormous scale in manufacturing, supply chain and distribution,” said Ben Wood, research director at CCS Insight.

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