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I just got a Nokia E65 for my wife. Yesterday I wrote a post where I was asking for advice since I had to quickly find a new 3G phone with a very good signal strength.

According to the advices I got, the Nokia E65 turned out to be a very good choice. Moreover, just by chance my sister-in-law just bought that phone two days ago and the performance in the basement of our house was great (I’m always speaking about the signal reception).

Unlike all the Nokia N series I got from the Nokia Blogger program, the built quality is way better, very solid plastic and very well designed keyboard. It’s pretty clear it’s an E-series, designed while keeping in mind a typical business usage. 

I’m playing with it right now (and syncing my wife’s address book) and after a couple of hours of usage, it’s definitely a thumb up.

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Every time I come here to the US I find very disapponting that Nokia is not pushing the sales of their high end phones.

As both Darla and Phoneboy highlight, Nokia’s brand in the US is way behind the iPhone or the Blackberry. Why? Try to get a high end Nokia smartphone in California and here is the answer. As noticed already, it’s almost impossible to find, let’s say, a N-series phone here in California (I bet it’s worse in other states) and only recently I could see a Nokia N95 8GB on BestBuy’s shelves priced at about $750, three times the most expensive “locked” phone in the same shelf.

Customers here are not used to unlocked phones and they are not certainly used to spend all that money to get a phone without a SIM card. Even pay as you go phones become locked as soon as you activate them.

All that said, I’m curious to see what the strategy for the new Nokia touchscreen phone is going to be. The so-called “tube” which will be introduced on October 2nd, is not a high-end phone but rather a “music” phone priced much lower than the competition. On the other hand, this will be just the first and according to a Nokia’s spokeperson more models in different market segments are going to be released in the following months.

I’m also curious what Nokia’s strategy will be in terms of the OS. Nokia recently bought the remaining shares of Symbian but according to trusted sources would be in the process of planning to put together a serious Android team depending on how the market responds to G1, the just announced Android phone by T-mobile.

Poll: would you like a Nokia Android phone? I personally think that a serious re-engineering of Symbian could lead to a definitive competitive advantage by Nokia but there is still much work to be done. At this time and in my opinion, Symbian is still way behind the iPhone in terms of usability and applications.

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A discussion is going on at Mobilize about the opportunity to move applications to browsers.

and most of the audience agree that web is going to be the platform for next generation applications for mobile.

Microsoft’s John O’Rourke states that for some applications, the native approach is still the best and most effective one. I have to agree on this, since mobile browsers, maybe with the exception of iPhone’s Safari, are in my opinion not ready yet to host feature-rich applications as those we are used to on our Mac or PC browser.

The other point is about how difficult is to install an application for a “normal” user. Bundled applications certainly help so that consumers don’t have to struggle finding the right app to perform certain activities. Moreover, it is not easy these days for a developer to market an app, so the “centralized” approach provided by Apple for iPhone/Touch apps could be the right way to go both for users and developers.

My prediction is that thanks to technologies like Flash and the huge innovation coming to mobile browsers from all the players in this market, the web based approach is certainly the way to go, but we are not ready yet and it will take 2-3 years at least. Besides, according to the audience, the consumer market will be the driver for innovation in this field so it’s definitely something everyone must take into account.

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