I guess you'll be getting a bunch more Windows 7 phones. Linkeh Oops, maybe should be moved into the mobile section of hardware?
With this they effectively killed any Symbian application ecosystem they have now (because while 150m Symbian devices looks cool, that is only about 2 years, plus Symbian is effectively all their lowend phones, and lowend phone buyers don't buy apps). They also killed MeeGo as a phone platform. While it can still survive as netbook platform for Intel, no one will bother writing apps for OS without support, without real market penetration (one manufacturer, one device, no real lookout for more manufacturers using MeeGo). And people were buying Nokia's mostly because of sentiment, because even the latest Symbian phone was having a very comparable UI interface to first ones. WP7 will be completely different paradigm, and Nokia will be only the one of many. In my opinion what they announced is that instead of drowning in pool they decided to drown in a middle of ocean.
Might be a good thing for Nokia to use some software that A) exists and B) works. Dunno how well it plays out in the end, but atleast personally I'd take anything over Symbian and the maemo/meego-stuff hasn't seemed too promising, either. That said, I still don't know why I would buy a Nokia phone or anything but Android for that matter. Either way, they NEED to get their phones finished before launching, people seem to have had it with Nokia launching buggy crap.
I don't see how should this help Nokia. For what reason should i buy a Nokia instead of HTC or another manufacturer ? IMO Microsoft trojan horse worked well, they got their former man to Nokia, and he got Microsoft here too.
I think this is going to be a good thing, Nokia have been failing for some time now and with Windows Mobile 7 failing to take off they can hopefully bring something to each other to make the platform move forward.
It was either this or see Nokia die a slow death. Blackberry and iPhones must be controlling the vast majority of the Market right now. Do you remember about 15 years ago when Nokia were kings?
This is great news - The actual hardware in Nokia's high end phones looks wonderful, but Symbian is so grindingly awful that I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to buy one in preference to an Apple/RIM/HTC phone. Hopefully we'll see some cool stuff coming out in the next year Good luck Microkia!
Nokia make cracking good cameras (for phones) (I had the N82), this could set the Windows phones one step up. I still want a HP Pre3 though.
They've finally seen sense and are killing off Symbian in smartphones, thank the Lord. My 5800 is sluggish as hell, glitchy and has a distinct lack of apps. Symbian can only make sense in ordinary mobile phones where a multitude of features aren't required. I would totally buy an N8 if it had Android but Symbian means it's dead to me.
@EvilMerc: and they will replace it with a platform which will be sluggish, glitchy and have distinct lack of apps. Good idea.
Totally agree. This has saved Nokia's bacon - as long as WP7 takes off. M$ needed the support of the worlds biggest phone manufacturers and Nokia needed one of the worlds best OS’s – this is a great bit of business for both parties, and it means we may well have a three horse race in the OS market instead of world domination by Android and iOS. Nokia hardware is still fantastic, it was just let down by Archaic software.
Do you realize i'm talking about Windows Phone 7, which if ever survives, it is going to be number 3 forever. I'm pretty sure every Nokia owner will love the alphabetical non-customizable one-row application list. The minimal WP7 requirements which are higher than N8 specs. But maybe, maybe in 2 years WP7 will have a usable number of apps and MS will make the system more usable compared to current status.
Who says anything about uncustomisable? MS have given Nokia free reign over what to do with the OS, and its not like the N8 is indicative of the future of their WP7 devices so they'll obviously be more powerful to cope. WP7's number of apps is increasing far faster than Symbian's ever did and from what I can tell there aren't too many complaints about sluggishness or glitches.
