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and attractiveness to all market participants; 3) the difficulties we experience
in having a competitive offering of Symbian devices and maintaining the economic
viability of the Symbian smartphone platform during the transition to Windows
Phone as our primary smartphone platform; 4) our ability to realize a return on
our investment in next generation devices, platforms and user experiences; 5)
our ability to produce attractive and competitive feature phones, including
devices with more smartphone-like features, in a timely and cost efficient
manner with differentiated hardware, software, localized services and
applications; 6) the intensity of competition in the various markets where we do
business and our ability to maintain or improve our market position or respond
successfully to changes in the competitive environment; 7) our ability to
retain, motivate, develop and recruit appropriately skilled employees; 8) our
ability to effectively and smoothly implement the new operational structure for
our businesses, achieve targeted efficiencies and reductions in operating
expenses; 9) the success of our Location & Commerce strategy, including our
ability to maintain current sources of revenue, provide support for our Devices
& Services business and create new sources of revenue from our location-based
services and commerce assets; 10) our success in collaboration and partnering
arrangements with third parties, including Microsoft; 11) our ability to
increase our speed of innovation, product development and execution to bring new
innovative and competitive mobile products and location-based or other services
to the market in a timely manner; 12) our dependence on the development of the
mobile and communications industry, including location-based and other services
industries, in numerous diverse markets, as well as on general economic
conditions globally and regionally; 13) our ability to protect numerous patented
standardized or proprietary technologies from third-party infringement or
actions to invalidate the intellectual property rights of these technologies;
14) our ability to maintain and leverage our traditional strengths in the mobile
product market if we are unable to retain the loyalty of our mobile operator and
distributor customers and consumers as a result of the implementation of our
strategies or other factors; 15) the success, financial condition and
performance of our suppliers, collaboration partners and customers; 16) our
ability to manage efficiently our manufacturing and logistics, as well as to