Matt Marshall of VentureBeat offers an upbeat assessment of Nokia's strategy and prospects for the US market going forward:

Nokia has finally admitted its mistake, and is now aggressively pursuing deals to attempt to at least double its market share in the U.S. over the next year. “Mea culpa, mea culpa, ” Mary McDowell, Nokia’s executive vice president and chief development officer, told me last week. After years of ignoring U.S. carriers, upset at their insistence to exert control over phones and customers, Nokia is working closely with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile to work with them after all. There was a good story in the New York times about this a few days ago.

The article says there are a variety of improved phones and cool new devices coming to the US including the N900 MID. I remain highly skeptical of Nokia's ability to recover in the US absent a low-cost, low-end strategy:

• Offering high functioning feature phones for the cost-sensitive
• Offering low-cost smartphones (but smartphones are now <$199 and more are coming out at <$99) 

I remain doubtful that the world's largest handset maker can offer a better user experience at the high end vs. the iPhone or Android devices (especially 2.0 devices). Another approach would be to offer mobile Internet devices (such as it's doing with netbooks) that re-establish a positive view of the Nokia brand and use that as a way back into the handset market.