Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by nextparadigms » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:16 PM UTC

Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?
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Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:42 PM UTC

It seems that by planting Elop on the CEO position at Nokia, Microsoft has perfected the use of outplacement as an offensive weapon.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by stuaxo » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:44 PM UTC

There goes Meego and then Nokia I guess.

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Post by stuaxo » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:46 PM UTC

stuaxo wrote: post #3

There goes Meego and then Nokia I guess.

Ah just seems that it's an Op Ed ... so should be taken with a large box of malden sea salt.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by partypoopin » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:51 PM UTC

The apparent source of this information is hardly a person that is considered to be reliable. Eldar has a track record of false rumors for the purpose of gaining more attention to himself.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by ThomPete » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:52 PM UTC

And while we think it's a big deal to most normal people it's a non-event.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by greyman » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:55 PM UTC

Not at all surprising to me. Nokia is mostly a hardware company, and they just do not have a software house powerful enough to create mobile OS which could compete with iOS or Android.

Nokia is a good company, especially in the area of dumbphones (still a pretty big segment), but they are just not that good at making software - I tried in the past to use their windows client ;-)).

Nokia hardware + WP7 seems like a good combo to me.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 12:58 PM UTC

greyman wrote: post #7

Not at all surprising to me. Nokia is mostly a hardware company, and they just do not have a software house powerful enough to create mobile OS which could compete with iOS or Android. Nokia is a good company, especially in the area of dumbphones (still a pretty big segment), but they are just not that good at making software - I tried in the past to use their windows client ;-)). Nokia hardware + WP7 seems like a go…

I wonder if the Microsoft past of its current CEO would have anything to do with it choosing to go WP7 instead of already market proven Android.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 1:01 PM UTC

partypoopin wrote: post #5

The apparent source of this information is hardly a person that is considered to be reliable. Eldar has a track record of false rumors for the purpose of gaining more attention to himself.

Since I won't buy a Nokia phone in the near future, I think I'll just sit and wait.

Too bad. Their hardware has always been excellent.

Re: Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

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Post by fredoliveira » Mon, Dec 20, 2010, 1:03 PM UTC

This was actually denied on stage at LeWeb by Nokia's design lead Marko Ahtisaari just over a week ago. His words were something like "Nokia likes to go into businesses where we can add real value, and that includes the software". He was specifically talking about Android and WP7.

Not saying they couldn't change their minds between then and now, but I'd find it weird. Then again, working exclusively on hardware might be the pivot Nokia needs to get out of the hole they carved out for themselves in the past few years.