The local Nokia website allows me to choose a phone by features (e.g: bar, slide, etc; should it have bluetooth, wifi, GPS, etc). This -again - is typical of every phone manufacturer on this planet that has more than three models to sell.
Even Apple faced a version of this problem back when they only made Macs. For a few years, just before Jobs' return, the marketing for Mac models was atrocious. Dozens of Power Macs and Performas, and 3 different lines of laptops, each with a weird 3-4 digit number to denote one model from another. One of Jobs' first "fixes" was paring down Apple's product line down to the four square product matrix that's been a staple of his keynotes since then.
I can understand finding faults with Nokia for not being able to compete effectively against iPhone. But then which other mobile maker is right now able to do that. iPhone is pretty much a new product category. And Apple gets consumers and software like few others.
But I cannot understand finding faults with the choice of phones Nokia provides.
Not to mention having dozens of models shows a lack of focus.
Maybe I should have clarified what I like about choice in phones that Nokia or others provide. One aspect of choice which I like is the different pricing options. The mobile phones are needed by people all over the world with varying purchasing powers. Everybody cannot or does not want to afford the total cost of ownership of iPhone or even Nokia N97 or Droid. But there are billions who want to make phone calls.