Potential huge cell phone news - Nokia and Microsoft make agreement on smartphones
Feb 11, 2011, 10:59 am
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Potential huge cell phone news - Nokia and Microsoft make agreement on smartphones
Here is the article. This could be huge. Nokia will move to WM7 from Symbian. Good riddance to Symbian. This makes me much more likely to go to Nokia if they can get some WM 7 smartphones on VZW in would be fantastic for me. This could be a real game changer.
Feb 11, 2011, 4:05 pm
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Actually, I think WM7 is far from a burning platform and should do well in its own right, in the long run (and with or without Nokia). However, I also think Elop is full of ---- and that what Nokia really needed was someone to come in, knock heads together and make the the great technology they already have competitive.
Feb 11, 2011, 5:51 pm
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Their great technology is hardware. This gives them a decent OS finally. And it gives Microsoft a hardware platform with serious global reach and name recognition. This is a win for both companies and the customers because it will give some serious competition to the rest of the market.
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Actually, I think WM7 is far from a burning platform and should do well in its own right, in the long run (and with or without Nokia). However, I also think Elop is full of ---- and that what Nokia really needed was someone to come in, knock heads together and make the the great technology they already have competitive.
Feb 13, 2011, 7:28 am
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This author feels that Microsoft basically bought Nokia for free:
http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/02/11/nokia/
http://www.appleoutsider.com/2011/02/11/nokia/
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Feb 14, 2011, 2:27 am
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You do know that the new CEO of Nokia is an ex Microsoft VP, right? 
Actually in the trade press this whole thing was reported on a couple months or so ago.
Actually in the trade press this whole thing was reported on a couple months or so ago.
Feb 14, 2011, 9:33 am
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Nokia implies that they got Google and Microsoft to bid against each other for the operating system.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1578...microsoft.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/1578...microsoft.html