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Re: Nokia Is Said to Be Near Software Partnership With Microsoft

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Post by r00fus » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 7:33 AM UTC

azakai wrote: post #6

So, Nokia is said to prefer a 'partnership' with Microsoft, as opposed to being just another hardware vendor working with Google's Android. That means Nokia would have a special status with Windows Phone 7. Would the other hardware vendors Microsoft has been working with be kicked out, leaving WP7 to run only on Nokia hardware? I find it hard to think of any other 'special status' Nokia can have, if other vendors als…

I'm pretty sure Microsoft doesn't trust your HTC's anyway because those companies make so much more with Android than WP7.

Also, I'm guess Nokia is aiming for the US market only (for now) with WP7. Single market, single OS, hopefully a single model.

It just might work.

Re: Nokia Is Said to Be Near Software Partnership With Microsoft

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Post by StavrosK » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 8:03 AM UTC

YooLi wrote: post #35

StavrosK wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about that, my iPhone 3G was unusable even before 4 was released, which doesn't bode very well for iOS. On the other hand, Android is very responsive on a $200 Samsung S, which can't be that much faster than the 3G...

iPhone 3G has an ARM11 620 MHz processor (underclocked to 412 MHz). I'm not sure what a Samsung S is (Galaxy S? Nexus S?), but if you are referring to a Galaxy S, the Galaxy S is quite a bit faster.

Sorry, it's called Galaxy 3.

Re: Nokia Is Said to Be Near Software Partnership With Microsoft

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Post by DjDarkman » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 2:29 PM UTC

I see this as the last nail in Nokia's coffin. Android has a lot of momentum, Windows Phone 7 is "barely" out. Again Nokia plunges into uncertainty instead of competing with other manufacturers on the hardware front.

Re: Nokia Is Said to Be Near Software Partnership With Microsoft

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Post by allwein » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

electromagnetic wrote: post #33

philwelch wrote: post #29

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Two drunks tied together don't make four legs. They make two legs vs. two legs.

I'm with you on that, I expect the probability of 'drunks tied together' falling down to increase following the square-cube law. I have a similar theory that the reason female washrooms always seem to have too few stalls is because their is a square-law going on. Ever notice how when your wife/girlfriend/friend goes to the washroom on their own they take roughly the same time as a guy, but when they go with their fri…

>I'm with you on that, I expect the probability of 'drunks tied together' falling down to increase following the square-cube law.

I think this is true only up to a point. I imagine that once you get a sufficient number of drunks, that you can simply tie them together tight enough that they'd stay standing like a shock of wheat.