Nokia got by far the largest R&D department and costs in the business.

The plan already announced by Elop earlier was that they will shed 1 billion from Devices and Services till 2013 where i'm sure most goes away of R&D. If that whole billion would go away from R&D Nokia would still be tied number one with Samsung in the R&D department. Way way ahead of Apple, RIM, Motorola etc.

Just maybe it was about time to get some sense to that side that has clearly been running on circles.

Nokia's+NSN combined R&D is $7.8 billion in 2010. More than Google or IBM.