Nokia to use Windows OS

This is great news IMO.

I really like nokia phone designs, just hated the OS.
Ok WP7 won't be my first choice, but I would take a nokia with WP7 over another SE with Android.
I would take an HTC with android over a WP7 version, and any of the above combo's over apple ;)
 
I thought MeeGo had one of the better UI designs for netbooks especially those with touch-screens so I hope that it survives in some form for Linux users.
 
manveruppd said:
4. Qt: There are more Symbian phones out there than you can shake a stick at. Once Qt took off it would have given app developers a MASSIVE installed base, making it the most attractive ecosystem, and made it MUCH easier for Nokia to gradually shift to Meego as its main OS, since Qt works on both. Brand loyalty is a very powerful thing, and telling all the hundreds of millions of folks who spent a few quid on the Ovi store that their purchases would STILL work when they upgraded from their S40 POS to a s****y new smartphone would be a huge incentive for them to pick Meego rather than Android or iPhone! Which leads me to...
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I really wish that the Qt strategy had worked. The Trolltech guys are an amazing bunch of people and I'm a big fan of Qt. Qt was capable of delivering amazing user interfaces at a steady 60fps. I think it all came too late in the end. :(
 
chimaera said:
Bit confused by this one to be honest, the Nokia CEO said in the BBC article...

"We spent time with our colleagues at Google and explored the Google ecosystem but we felt we would have difficulty differentiating within that ecosystem"

So instead of going with the system that you could have customised and at least superficially made into a modern NOKIA style phone, they went with the locked down OS that allows no modifications...

Exactly how will WP7 enable them to differentiate themselves from all the superior HTC and Samsung handsets that use WP7? Of course the CEO being an ex Microsoft man had nothing to do with it i'm sure...

Big mistake i think, should have gone for a customised android build.
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It's fairly easy to be different from other WM7 phones as nobody has them!

I would guess that Microsoft will be giving Nokia a shed load of cash to do this-in some form or another. WM7 has no traction in the market place so MS needed this just as much as Nokia needed an OS. It will be interesting to see how it works out as afaik Nokia isn't a big player in the US and Microsoft isn't a brand that Europeans like.

Also I read over the last few days that European carriers were begging Nokia to go with MS over Google as they want some competition!
 
I agree with some of the comments that Nokia are a bit late to the game. They should have either ditched Symbian a year or so ago, or ploughed the cash into it and make Symbian an excellent touch screen OS.
It'll be interesting to see how this pains out, it's certainly a turning point but whether it's for the better I’m not sure. Personally I think WP7 is a load of betty, but it's still early developments.
 
visibleman said:
I agree with some of the comments that Nokia are a bit late to the game. They should have either ditched Symbian a year or so ago, or ploughed the cash into it and make Symbian an excellent touch screen OS.
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The problem was never a problem of cash. Nokia's R&D spend is six times that of Apple's. It was a culture, skills and tools problem. Nokia couldn't move fast enough.
 
Tunney said:
The problem was never a problem of cash. Nokia's R&D spend is six times that of Apple's. It was a culture, skills and tools problem. Nokia couldn't move fast enough.
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I think so too, they seemed to know what was wrong and headed in the right direction to fix it, but they were taking stupidly long about it!

Frankly though, starting from scratch with someone else's OS wont' make it go any faster, they have to design a new device around it now!
 
manveruppd said:
Frankly though, starting from scratch with someone else's OS wont' make it go any faster, they have to design a new device around it now!
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If Nokia wanted to, they could easily ship a first product by August using off the shelf components. A fully "Nokia-ised" WP7 probably won't appear until 2012 though.

I feel sorry for any Symbian/MeeGo-focused companies going to MWC this year. :)
 
Tunney said:
I feel sorry for any Symbian/MeeGo-focused companies going to MWC this year. :)
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It is rather a kick in the teeth knowing that, you're dead ended into a market with limited scope to generate revenue after the handset/one of the primary proponents of your platform has relegated it to a research platform.
 
Exactly - it's precisely the same thing that happened to those developers who tried to write software for Maemo 5: the N900 was abandoned after only a few months of life.

Right now, if I was a developer, I wouldn't go near any of Nokia's platforms with a bargepole. The company has lost all credibility with them.
 
My problem with Nokia is they just don't make any hardware I think Mmmm I like that, and haven't for donkey's years...and WP7 won't change that I'm afraid
 
Nokia shares tumble after Windows Phone 7 announcement

Following Nokia's official announcement that it will be partnering with Microsoft, shares have tumbled, reaching session lows as of writing of down 14.50 percent on 700 percent average volume.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced this morning that Nokia smartphones would now run the Windows Phone 7 operating system, a huge move for Microsoft which instantly gains a worldwide footprint, but a tough admission from Nokia that they have been slow on innovating in the burgeoning smartphone market.

In just 4 years, Nokia's smartphone share has fallen from 51 percent to 27 percent, losing all of its share to Android and Apple. Microsoft was once a leader in that market as well, but has seen its share fall to single digits.

Elop says the partnership will "jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity."

In Windows Phone 7, the Nokia Ovi Store will be merged into the Marketplace and all Nokia smartphones will have Bing as the default search engine. Furthermore, WP7 will add Nokia's NAVTEQ maps.

Says one analyst of the deal:

It’s a clear admission that Nokia’s own platform strategy has faltered. Microsoft is the big winner in this deal, but there are no silver bullets for either company given strength of iPhone and Android.



After Elop's speech 1,000 Nokia employees allegedly walked out of company headquarters in protest of the move. Nokia says the number was a lot less and called the walkout "a mass exercise of vacation time."
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