Will BB5 be the death of Nokia?

[Hands0n]

An interesting question occurs to me. Whilst it is undoubted that Nokia are the most popular mobile handset manufacturer, is it reasonable to expect this to be the case going forward when thinking about the means they use to apply the Service Provider (SP) Lock, namely their BB5 technology.

SP Locking benefits only the mobile network operator and is rather meaningless to the manufacturer who really can remain compeltely agnostic to the entire process, if they choose. Nokia, however, have chosen to outwit even the most technically adept at unlocking handsets with their BB5 technology. This has proven uncrackable to date, and Nokia are not releasing the unlock technology to anyone but the network operators.

Is this the future? Or is it a dead end for Nokia? As the handsets reach the end of their contract life the second use market for resale, or even deployment elsewhere in the family is not at all unusual. Removing the SP Lock (Unlocking) has become a high street and market stall practicality. The kits and clips to do this are almost at commodity prices.

So, to create a handset that is unlock-proof may well turn out to be Nokia's folly. Or not?

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