Painful metamorphosis is probably the right term to be used here. They could acquire the smaller and profit-making players in dumb-phone markets and let them f

Painful metamorphosis is probably the right term to be used here. They could acquire the smaller and profit-making players in dumb-phone markets and let them function independently - kill their own overheads in "small-margins" game. Nokia should reinvent their focus to something else - not continue on mobile platform now. Just like they did in past by moving away from cables to rubber tyres and so on... They're late for the tablet game too, but an enterprise centric tactile surface (which is portable too) sounds like a good idea [Sheesh! Given away the idea, but the world would be a better place with it ;) ]. There is a gap in there which they could surely fill. I don't know about Elop's strengths or weaknesses, but for me Nokia is still a severely defocused bloat. Strip down to basics is the only advise here. Just a few thoughts.