{"id":61648,"date":"2012-10-08T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=61648"},"modified":"2012-10-08T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T07:17:47","slug":"nokia-loses-senior-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/61648-nokia-loses-senior-exec.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia loses senior exec"},"content":{"rendered":"

A senior Nokia<\/a> executive in charge of product marketing has left the company, after a launch event last month for the company’s new Lumia smartphones disappointed investors.<\/p>\n

Ilari Nurmi<\/a>, who was vice president of product marketing and responsible for the company’s smartphone strategy, confirmed to Reuters in an email that he recently left the Finnish phone company.<\/p>\n

He did not make clear whether he left of his own accord, and the company declined to comment on the circumstances of his departure.<\/p>\n

He spoke to media last month when Nokia unveiled the Lumia 920, a top-of-the-range smartphone using Windows<\/a> software. At the time, investors said they were disappointed by a lack of details such as launch dates and prices.<\/p>\n

The success of Lumia phones is widely seen crucial for Nokia as it struggles to compete with rivals Apple<\/a> and Samsung<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia fell behind rivals in smartphones and racked up more than 3 billion euros in operating losses in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n

It is pinning its hopes on a partnership with Microsoft Corp<\/a> and its Windows Phone software, which powers around 3 percent of the global smartphone market while Google Inc’s Android platform controls two-thirds of sales. Apple has under a quarter.<\/p>\n

Nokia’s new Lumia smartphones will go on sale in November, taking on the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III ahead of the Christmas season, but some analysts said the prices for the colourful handsets looked high.<\/p>\n

The Lumia’s launch was also marred by news that one of the ads misled viewers. TheVerge.com first reported that a video ad coinciding with the Lumia announcement was in fact not shot with the 920, and the company subsequently apologized.<\/p>\n

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