Win 7 on Nokia? Ugh. What would OPK say?

I wholeheartedly agreed with his peeing-to-warm-one's-legs reference w.r.t Android, and wonder what scatalogical reference one would elicit from him regarding this story.

Inertia and bureaucracy have turned Nokia into the slow-moving, anything-but-nimble aircraft carrier it is, but Windows 7 and Android are no panacea.

Of course, Eldar could just be timing his rhetoric for the leadup to Nokia's Q4 earnings announcement (but maybe I'm just overly cynical).
 
Can't you all see? All these rumors of Android and WP7 are just smoke and mirrors planted by Nokia. In reality, they are in advanced talks with Samsung on Bada. What I am hearing is that Samsung's only condition is that these Nokia + Bada phones will be branded as "Nada". Trust me, I have reliable sources.

Merry Xmas everyone!
 
Awesome! Sign me up to the Nada forum, please! I love icky, glitzy, over-bright UIs and transitions in delicate, plasticky phones with (the only redeeming feature) great SuperAMOLED screens.

Go NokSung!
 
It sounds far fetched, but there were rumors just before Nokia World that Microsoft had been circling Nokia for an acquisition earlier in 2010. In fact multiple companies, including Intel and Cisco were also as rumored, 'kicking the tires' and looking at Nokia's books.

Who knows if this happens, but the sub-$10 share price isn't helping matters. It puts them into acquisition target territory.
 
NOOOOO...!! Microsoft will ruin the house of Nokia! What a sad day that'll be!! It's like Tata buying Jaguar--a Jag just ain't a Jag anymore...
 
Sigh - you picked a BAD analogy.

If anything, Ford was sucking JLR (Jag, Land Rover) dry and cheapifying the underlying components - did you read any reviews of the Jag/Lincoln S-Type/Continental? It was a bad car. Or the Ford Mondeo-ish X-Type?

Tata is giving them (Jag) some leeway to spend money, design new stuff (there's a Jag green limo concept, I think), hire expensive Managers, advertise HEAVILY Bear in mind that all currently sold JLR cars were designed in the Blue Oval era - the XF was ranked 2010's least reliable new release!

Nokia/MS would be very different, in that the MS OS would cheapen what Symbian has been and meant over the year. I sincerely hope MeeGo can rescue Nokia from their funk (and the over-aggressive bad press, and justifiable UI comparisons they currently suffer through). Win Mobile 7 will certainly NOT achieve that.
 
I have nothing against Microsoft, but I'm against this since I am a fan of as many OS out there as possible to keep others in check. Something like this could screw with the MeeGo project which is something that I am very interested in seeing how that turns out.


I recognize that all of this stuff is coming out of rumorville, but then again we heard whispers of this swirling around a couple months back too...
 
In order for Microsoft to purchase Nokia it would be roughly 36B (Nokia Market Cap) and Microsoft has roughly 36B in cash in the bank. No chance in hell Microsoft will burn all of their banked cash on Nokia.. First off..

Second off.. It was been well established already that Nokia has no plans to use an outside OS as they want to build Symbian for their Mid-Low end phones and MeeGo for their high end phones.. They will never bring in competition against their OVI store where they will see a good chunk of their profits in the coming years.
 
I think the talks are over office and exchange mail perhaps...
doubt Nokia would run WP7....

and Microsoft is NOT in a position to take over Nokia, where do these theories come from..?

screw it....

Disney is taking over the Hooters franchises....
there, that's just as legitimate......
 
Nokia would consume most of the on hand cash that Microsoft, Cisco or Intel has.. Especially after Intel burned through 7.6B on McAfee.. Cisco is already a hardware company so they have no need to buy Nokia.. They surely don't want Symbian for $36B ish ..
 
Yeah, I was just speculating. If Ballmer tried to buy Nokia, Microsoft investors would have his head. They *already* think the Xbox and Zune projects have been unnecessary distractions from their enterprise business.

Still, I wouldn't discount the possibility that Nokia develops a line of WP7 devices to try to break in to the U.S. market. It would be the only shot, because Symbian sure as hell won't do it, and last time I looked Meego devices weren't shipping anytime soon, likely not until this time next year, IF that.
 
Jimmy gets a little overdramatic at times but it would not surprise me at all if the MeeGo phone didn't come out until the second half of the year considering how long it takes Nokia to get things done.
 
What held Nokia back before was having multiple companies with their hands in symbian. Now that symbian has been brought back in house look how fast development is happening especially with Qt!

New CEO and new platform with a bit of fire under their a$#, I suspect we will see rapid development out of Nokia in 2011.. I suspect this will be a big year!
 
yeah msft would never buy nokia. nokia right now is sliding fast and it's never a good idea to try to buy companies that aren't stable. I agree. nokia has no chance in the USA market with either symbian or meego. none. however, I can see nokia negotiating an exclusive deal with msft that allows them to modify wp7 and allow them to put nokia services on it while retaining the app base of wp7 as well as the modern look and feel. I can tell you that elop is not going to stand pat with meego at the high end. he would be four years behind with that strategy. I see nokia becoming more like samsung, which is OS agnostic, at the same time trying to cultivate an in house OS (meego).
 
fast? their pace is glacial. they were supposed to have the S4 UI on the phone in 2010. they were supposed to have meego out the door in 2010. now the S4 UI won't be on Symbian until well into 2011. meego won't be out till mid 2011 on a nokia phone. they need to get a move on because they are falling further behind. They are a non factor in the USA and symbian or meego won't change that.
 
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