But Anssi Vanjoki says the combination of Symbian and MeeGo is strong.
Nokia's head of mobile solutions Anssi Vanjoki has taken to the company's Nokia Conversations blog with a bullish message aimed at smartphone rivals.
"I am committed, perhaps even obsessed, with getting Nokia back to being number one in high-end devices," he writes. "Achieving this will require performance and efforts over and above the norm."
Vanjoki hails the upcoming release of Nokia's N8 smartphone, promising that it will be an "entertainment powerhouse". He also defends the Symbian OS, and scotches rumours that Nokia may switch to Android.
"Despite rumors to the contrary, there are no plans to introduce an Android device from Nokia," he writes.
"Symbian is our platform of choice for Nokia smartphones. Symbian has taken a lot of criticism lately – some of it fair, some not. But what is consistently overlooked is that Symbian still accounts for more than two-fifths of the global smartphone market."
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The N8 will be Nokia's only Nseries smartphone to run the Symbian^3 OS, but Vanjoki makes it clear that there will be others running its successor, Symbian^4.
Meanwhile, Vanjoki says Nokia's MeeGo initiative is about computing rather than smartphones, which you might read as a hint that Nokia is set to join the tablet wars.
"There is no denying, that as a challenger now, we have a fight on our hands," he concludes. "The first battle is to bring you products and services you will want to own and use, to inspire you to create and do new things in this ever changing digital world."
