{"id":3607,"date":"2009-02-28T05:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T05:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2009-02-28T05:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T05:06:35","slug":"nokia-laptops-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/nokia-laptops-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Laptops Coming ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry has rumored about Nokia&#8217;s possible plan to enter the PC industry since late last year. According to latest reports by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSTRE51O6Z320090226?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSTRE51O6Z320090226?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews', ' Reuters']);\" target=\"_blank\"> Reuters<\/a>, that may be true. The world&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking very actively also at this opportunity,&#8221; Kallasvuo said, when asked whether Nokia plans to make laptops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;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,&#8221; Kallasvuo said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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,&#8221; said Ben Wood, research director at CCS Insight.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry has rumored about Nokia&#8217;s possible plan to enter the PC industry since late last year. According to latest reports by Reuters, that may be true. The world&#8217;s top cellphone maker Nokia is eyeing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[404,403],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nokia","tag-nokia-laptop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}