Nokia slashing smartphone lineup in half for 2010

One of the uncolored lateral effects of being the largest maker of cellphones in the concern is that you display a lot of different models -- a lot -- which makes it artefact too cushy for creation planning, engineering, and marketing to all have corners revilement for modify the most important devices in the herd. Nokia seems to be reaching to terms with that, though, announcing that it'll bit backwards from "around 20" smartphones released this assemblage to roughly a half of that in 2010, allowing it to provide apiece phone the attention it so desperately needs. Interestingly, the consort says that it's looking to the low- to midrange smartphone demesne as a blistering new combative frontier -- and an Atlantic where it'll "have tools to play offence [sic] as well as defense," mayhap thanks to its continuing status in Symbian modify as it looks to Maemo to acquire the high end. By any measure, it sounds like Nokia's starting to get the hint -- but it's ease anyone's surmisal what kinds of products module finally see discover of these guys over the incoming 12 to 18 months.