I'd read all those 'Microsoft should fork Android' discussions that have been appearing on HN lately, but I never remotely saw it coming to fruition. Interesting development...
Nokia Releasing First Android Phone
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#12I wonder if this fork would be open-source?
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#13Also, "Last Android Phone" :P
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#14I predict this will last 5 minutes after the Nokia deal closes. This is a thumb in the eye to Microsoft by people who will also leave that part of Nokia immediately after the deal closes. They will leave with the knowledge and experience of how to integrate an Android based product with Nokia (maps, multimedia, app store) and Microsoft (Bing search, Skype) ecosystem elements.
I would bet they know at least 5 OEMs in China who would like a similar product.
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#15Linus Torvalds once said: "If Microsoft ever starts developing apps for Linux, it means I won." Is this close enough?
Won what? Besides Nokia is not really Microsoft and Android is not really a Linux, so the answer is probably "not really".
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#16I predict this will last 5 minutes after the Nokia deal closes. This is a thumb in the eye to Microsoft by people who will also leave that part of Nokia immediately after the deal closes. They will leave with the knowledge and experience of how to integrate an Android based product with Nokia (maps, multimedia, app store) and Microsoft (Bing search, Skype) ecosystem elements. I would bet they know at least 5 OEMs in…
Honestly, it sounds like a bad proposition overall. What is Windows Phone lacking? Apps. What will the Nokia Android phone lack? The Google Play store. Hmm.
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#17I'll never understand why Nokia thought that going with WP was a better strategy than forking android like amazon did.
Think about it: it would have the openness and stability of Linux with the single hardware configuration and quality of the iPhone, total win-win.
Now they are going to android as the cheap option which means only crappy hardware that only "looks" like a lumia.
Had Nokia gone the other way it would be in an even better position than Samsung Mobile is in now, mostly thanks to it's vastly superior software resources.
Then again the exact same thing could be said about RIM.
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#18I predict this will last 5 minutes after the Nokia deal closes. This is a thumb in the eye to Microsoft by people who will also leave that part of Nokia immediately after the deal closes. They will leave with the knowledge and experience of how to integrate an Android based product with Nokia (maps, multimedia, app store) and Microsoft (Bing search, Skype) ecosystem elements. I would bet they know at least 5 OEMs in…
Honestly, it sounds like a bad proposition overall. What is Windows Phone lacking? Apps. What will the Nokia Android phone lack? The Google Play store. Hmm.
Amazon is doing quite well, and making some very sweet hardware running an Android-based OS. I think that with Nokia's ecosystem elements plus a selection of the dozens of Android apps Microsoft makes, plus some China-specific apps, you could have a workable front end to your own ecosystem.
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#19Linus Torvalds once said: "If Microsoft ever starts developing apps for Linux, it means I won." Is this close enough?
Won what? Besides Nokia is not really Microsoft and Android is not really a Linux, so the answer is probably "not really".
How is Android "not really a Linux
? It runs the Linux kernel. That means it's Linux. No, it's not a distribution of GNU/Linux, but it's a Linux kernel. It's really using Linux. It's as Linux as Ubuntu, as Ubuntu also runs on a Linux kernel.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
the verge has a write up of the paywalled report... it seems to be the same shell/hardware as the current windows phones. which is a huge let down. it will be yet another candy bar phone. if you had hopes of a n900 successor as well, it may be the time to give up already :(
For all those who dream of running emacs on their phone, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Hum, an emacs native port for Android has been out for quite a while now [1]. Android is just a Linux system with a weird libc and windowing system.