Nokia seeks to reconnect with the US market

Nokia seeks to reconnect with the US market

Berlin: Mary T. McDowell, a 46-year-old Chicago native, is acutely aware that her employer, Nokia, the mobile phone maker from Finland, has a lot of work to do.

The task is particularly daunting in the United States, where Nokia shows little of the swagger of a global powerhouse that sells about 11 cellphones a second. With a skimpy 8 percent share of the U.S. market, according to the research firm comScore, Nokia trails Samsung, LG, Motorola and Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry.

As Nokia seeks to turn around its smartphone lineup to try to compete with the BlackBerry and with Apple's iPhone, the company is also trying to shore up its bulk cellphone business, which accounts for 84 percent of the 432 million devices Nokia sold last year. In July, it put Ms. McDowell, a former line engineer who kept Compaq and Hewlett-Packard atop the computer server market in the 1990s, in charge of its mass-market phone operations.

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