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Nokia R&D Workers Researching and Developing New Job Leads

by John Paczkowski
Posted on November 20, 2009 at 10:21 AM PT

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LAYOFFS_BOBS_THUMBNokia’s workforce is deteriorating nearly as fast as its share of the mobile phone market. This morning, the company–which sacked 1,700 employees in March and another 450 in April–said it will cut 330 more jobs in its research and development group. But not to worry, says Nokia, that’s just two percent of the company’s 17,000-strong R&D staff.

Another sad turn of events for Nokia (NOK), whose dominance of the smartphone market is being steadily eroded by competition from the likes of Apple (AAPL) and Research In Motion (RIMM). In its latest quarter, the company’s smartphone market share declined to 35 percent from 41 percent. This slide is likely to continue unless Nokia is able to inspire a major revival in its smartphone volumes with a worthy iPhone rival.

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  • Fred Hamranhansenhansen
    Nokia is so far behind, they need to invest in R&D, not cut it. They seem to have a huge line-up of phones that all look like 2005.
  • Jakob Andreas Torgersen
    The share of smartphone market share amongst the various companies will fluctuate with introduction of new models etc. You should consider that from Q1 to Q2 Nokia increased smartphone market share from 38% to 41%, then it was down to 35% again the last quarter, but will likely go up again in the Christmas quarter with the introduction of several new touchscreen models. It is more important, in my opinion to see the broader picture, i.e. the total sales in one year compared to another and not overstress the individual quarters. Even so, Nokia did have about 35% sequential unit growth in their high-end touchscreen smartphones last quarter (the 5800+N97). This is comparable to Apple´s 37% unit growth in iPhones the same quarter (attributable to the introduction of the 3GS).
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