14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been long rumored to plan the release of some highly appealing devices this year, including a new flagship smartphone on the network of Verizon Wireless, and it seems that Stephen Elop, the company’s CEO, might have just confirmed them.
During an interview aired on Finnish TV, he said that new devices are indeed coming, and that they would be “beautiful.”
No specific devices were named in the interview (Elop avoided to answer a question about the Lumia 928), but the mentioning was enough to fuel speculation on what the handset vendor will have in store for its customers moving forth.
“What we are also saying though is that there is so much good work ahead. I mean some of the beautiful phones still ahead we’re so excited about,” Elop said during the interview, a recent article on MyNokiaBlog notes.
“What you’re seeing, so much about the improvements at Nokia is we may have a full portfolio of beautiful products but because the engineering teams in Tamperreella, Salossa, Oulossa, San Diego, in Beijing, all these places, they are working so much more effectively producing such better products.”
Elop also said that users would be pleasantly impressed with what these handsets will have to offer to them in terms of design and camera capabilities, for example, both of which are set to be taken to higher levels in new devices.
Moving forth, Nokia expects sales of its Lumia devices to pick up pace, and Elop suggested that the sales numbers registered in the fourth quarter of the last year were a good sign that this would happen.
“Now we’re starting with a brand new set of products, we’re starting with low numbers but I like that Q4 was more than Q3 and I want to keep growing that and taking that to a higher and higher amount,” he said.
Nokia’s devices are set to become more competitive as well, and the company’s CEO believes that they will be able to take down Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s highly popular Android devices, though only time will tell if they will indeed succeed.