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INQUIRER readers say Nokia should have chosen Android
FINNISH PHONE FIRM Nokia should have chosen Android instead of Windows Phone, The INQUIRER's readers have informed us loudly and clearly.
Perhaps not as loudly as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would tell us Windows Phone is the easiest operating system to use, but readers told it how they saw it in our poll, which asked the question, "Nokia is in a spot of bother so what should it do?"
For you, dear readers, Android came out top and way ahead of the competition with 59 per cent of the vote. And we didn't even specify which version. For you all any version of Android is better than the alternatives.
Even Meego, now destined for a one time only product, beat Windows Phone by coming second with 14 per cent, while Windows Phone trailed at 13 per cent. For 11 per cent of respondents a warez version of IOS was the answer, and finally, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Nokia's much unloved smartphone OS Symbian came in very last at 3 per cent. µ
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If Nokia took Android it would relegate itself to a pack of also-runs copycats. With Microsoft it has a chance to survive contributing to innovations and, even more importantly to create an ecosystem - phones and most imporant in the future, guys! But of course it will not be easy to win a big chunk against the pressure of commoditization. Remember IBM? They were inventors of PC and they were big in laptops. They are doing very well now in services. Thus managed to transform themselves and moved to where the profits are.
Android does not offer Nokia anything that Nokia didn´t have today.
Of course, google is a big brand and combined with another phones manufactures, it has power to gain market.
But if Nokia goes this way, it´s market share would decrase, It would be behind Samsung without software advantages.
Some years ago Nokia way nearly alone in smartphones market, and Its obvious that it has some loses on market share when more players come to the game. That´s not dramatic.
The only big problem with Nokia is USA market, the world phones seller leader is still unable to conquer USA market and WP7 could be a good option to achive that. Microsoft has some potential buyers because of Desktop Windows compability.
The important point is that Nokia should continue anyway with Meego, but most important, with Symbian. Perhaps Meego and WP7 can be use for some high range phones, for netboks and tablets.
But Symbian is very important too, for midle range and highend phones. Symbian is more adaptable to more cheap phones and this is a big advange for Nokia. Android application are not native. The SO consumes more resources.
Meego runs native applications, it has amd and intel support and support qt applications like Symbian.
WP7 won´t support QT, and I don´t think that applications will run as fast as Symbian an Meego ones. But is a good alternative for Windows 7 compability and to gain some USA market share.
The conclution is that with S30, S40, S60, Symbian 3, Meego an WP7, Nokia would have a good software offer for all markets having some competitive advantages and won´t really need Android.
So by moving from symbian to windows nokia increased their popularity more than 4 fold - you could argue, if so inclined.
This site is a Android Troll site. This site just sucks.
What do you call a "Microsoft partner"?
An organ donor.
Poor Nokia. Another European company going down the waste pipe. But it was Nokia which sealed its own downfall when it stopped developing products in EU states like Germany. Going cheap with R&D is always expensive in the long run.
I give this "partnership" two years and then Nokia will be assimilated, or become dog food.
Has Microsoft finally made it possible for GSM phones running its software to have auto updates of network connection settings, because I find it amazing that an "advanced" phone OS like windows mobile cannot have such setting automatically updated over the air.
Anyway, the net result of this merger is that, Nokia will suffer financially, and will lose so much market share and revenue that they will be in need of a takeover in that case Microsoft will take them over.
The appointment of a Microsoft man as CEO is a disaster for Nokia.
@Vik
Don't patronise us. A lot of use have already tried WP7 out, and to us it's nothing special. Just a UI that's ripped from a MP3 player which belongs more in a video game than on your phone.
If Windows phone was so good , it would be the number one seller and Samsung Nexus S or Iphone 4 would not be in so much demand. Yes is better than all the phones you bought before it or some network operator or relative gave it to you for free. While competition in mobile space is good, I still prefer open source software and ecosystem and the fact companies and individuals can adapt it to their use. It is better companies like Apple or Microsoft do not play God with us , telling users and software developers what to do or not to do with their locked ecosystems and huge margins. Android has brought the smartphone capability to the common man and 3D and dual core phones are really state of the art rather than microsoft adding copy and paste today in one of their bloated software offerings and trying to kill open source where ever it can. I have loved Nokia for phone design , quality and customer service would love to see a Android phone made by Nokia.
People who are commenting here are totally clueless about how good Windows Phone 7(Not Windows Phone) is. It is a fresh new best phone OS out there and that is why Nokia has chosen it over Android.
I got Windows Phone 7, HTC HD7 in Jan after my iPhone 3GS broke down, and I enjoy using the phone so much that I would never go back to iOS now. My friends have Android phones but I'm not impressed.
I think they should have hedged their bets by producing both Windows Phone 7 and Android handsets. Android's interface is very customizable which would have let Nokia retain much of their unique expertise in phone interface while still allowing people to use the apps they are familiar with. Windows Phone 7 is good but is just not as statistically popular as Android. Betting the company's entire future on the success of Windows Phone 7 seems like a very risky decision.
It seems Elop is working for Microsoft and Nokia. While this move to Windows will take Windows Phone to India, China, Middle East and other Nokia strong holds, Nokia will lose all the cash reserves it currently has paying royalties and increased inventory. Americans are big fans of Apple,RIM& Android and will not buy the slow nokia hardware and windows phone software. Maybe good time for phone modders to grab cheap nokia phones and install latest versions of Android on them as they will all meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows
Good thing they don't run Nokia or any other business!
Android is not comparable to Symbian nor Enterprise relevant. WP7 still has some updating to do to get there, but it's a hell of a lot closer and secure.
I also don't like this WP7 bashing. Although, as a person I would be more excited to see Nokia with Android than WP7. However, WF7 makes much more sense from business perspective. Of course, WP7 is a flop so far. But if really commited and deep-pocketed, Microsoft can enter a market even after multiple flops (see XBox and Bing). Don't forget that Nokia and Google are big rivals in GPS + Digital Maps area. I think there would be huge potential if they managed to integrate Nokias hardware and map services with Microsoft development tools (Visual Studio) and web services. Though, I see a few weak points here. Microsoft is weak at making online application/media shops. Meanwhile, Nokia risks getting confused among too many operating systems WP7, Symbian, Meago, etc. without seriously commiting to a single one. So, still it's a very big gamble for Nokia.
Obviously those Nokiakers want their users to be able to install the internet onto the phones and be able to browse the web and point and click and do all of the things that are so DIFFICULT if not IMPOSSIBLE to do with any other O/S.
Android is probably better (for now) but Windows has a bottomless pit of cash behind it, which will now go towards helping Nokia claw back some market share. In the long run, it may work out for them; Microsoft is rabidly determined to make it in the mobile space and this deal gives them not just a foot, but a whole leg in the door.
Not sure why the Inquirer is so anti Windows Phone 7, but I'm now bored of reading about it. So I'm unsubscribing my RSS.