Nokia is Doomed on the Low End

Via the Android channel on Trove, via Forbes, Jeremy Ford reports that the Android based IDEOS from Huawei is selling like hotcakes:

this $80 smartphone has found its way into the hands of 350,000+ Kenyans, an impressive sales number in a country where 40% of the population lives on less than two dollars a day. The IDEOS’s success in this market firmly establishes the open source Android as the smartphone of the people and demonstrates how unrelenting upswings in price-performance can jumpstart the spread of liberating technologies.

Nokia can't compete with that, certainly not with a bloated, proprietary platform.