http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-n900-6558...

Shame as I did buy some Nokia shares recently when they dipped.   To
be honest I would be glad to get out at break even now.   NOK will
come back on basic phone sales (6700, 5800) but have nothing in the
pipeline for some tim and no answer to teh wave fo smartphones coming
at us.   Certainly not the n900 as some sort of "Saviour".

Scant praise really, from a 2K shareholder here.

On Dec 7, 8:58 pm, Markku <mhe...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.thomson-webcast.net/uk/dispatching/?event_id=9244f67f91f37...

and see what they are doing and their plans for next year, with the
completely new user interfaces for their Symbian, 3 times faster, very
easy to use, beautiful graphics, redesigned media player (a la Apple
etc). And also the next generation Maemo device will have a completely
new user interface (and also have multi touch). Apparently this next
Maemo device out in a year is aimed to be a viable iPhone competitor.
It was interesting to see that Nokia projected that some 15% of their
devices would be Maemo based in 2011, that´s 50-100 million units per
year. But I have to agree: the n900 was never intended to be a mass
market phone, more like a trial product until the next "final"
generation (5/5) of the Maemo devices (starting back in 2005) will be
released.

At these suppressed levels, Nokia share has a real potential for a
strong rebound, but it may not go much up before the second half of
next year - although my opinion is that you will get a good return if
you keep your shares for two months, as earnings release will most
likely significantly beat the very low expectations (I expect the
opposite to happen with Apple where the expectations are sky high,
which will probably not be met and then we´ll get the substantial drop
in the share price, as usual.)

I like to invest in undervalued companies with good fundamentals, and
are always prepared to keep them until they eventually go up (in some
cases it could even take some years). The problem, I think, is that
stocks often don´t trade according to fundamentals, only short term
sentiments and speculation. A month ago I posted a message on the
Google Finance forum for GLW, suggesting the stock was very
undervalued. At that time the stock had been standing almost still for
7 months. However, over the past month the stock has suddenly gone up
30%. I would never had expected this to happen so soon, and there´s
not any particular news to warrant this sudden boom, expect that it
was (and I guess still is) inherently undervalued.

On the other hand I bought a lot of shares in NOVL before their
earnings release last week, and while this company is trading with a
market cap of $1.4B and has a whopping $1B in cash and no debt (it
would have been like Apple had $120B in cash), and while they beat
earnings expectations by 50%, and are now trading with a P/E of 12.5,
half that of the average software company, - despite all this the
stock is still up less than 5% since that time. Even Jim Cramer
adviced people to sell this stock after the earnings release (however,
that´s good news, because he´s been proven to be statistically more
wrong than right). So you just never know. In two years it may have
gone up three times, ditto for Nokia. I think patience is the clue for
the amateur investor if he wants to make any money. Unfortantely he
too often end up buying high and selling low.

As regards Nokia: consider that the dollar has strengthened 2-3%
against the Euro over the past week. That´s the main reason for the
recent "decline" in the share price. Measured in Euro´s it´s actually
up a percent or so over the past week.

On Dec 10, 1:36 am, IGotsSharesInNoobishness

It's good sometimes to be just shut up. Please and thanks

On Jan 7, 10:56 am, Julia Zshcoche <juliazscho...@googlemail.com>
wrote: