WSj Report: Nokia CEO Considers Big Shake-Up on Friday 11th

Windows Phone 7, like Symbian, isn't very scalable. That's the problem. The phone is always stuck to a narrow processor range, like Symbian^3 has to run on some 680MHz Freescale ARM11 processor, Windows Phone 7 is stuck with the Qualcomm 8250 Snapdragon that's old generation compared to what many Android phones are boasting.

Linux based mobile OS which both Meego, Android and WebOS share this heritage, is highly scalable. You can put the same OS on a cheap entry level smartphone, to a dual core 10" tablet. The result of this is that you have a very wide range of devices that can pool and share into the same ecosystem. The synergy that results from a pooled ecosystem breeds apps and entices developers. That's what fuels the iOS ecosystem which consists of a trinity between iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. That's why Android is branching out to tablets and PmPs. That's why todays announcement of WebOS has a tablet along with smartphones. That's why RIM plans to migrate Playbook OS to smartphones.

The moment you start having a line up that says like, featurephones - Series 40, low to mid end smartphones - Symbian, high end smartphones - Windows Phone 7, tablets - Windows 7 embedded, this kind of segmentation is already doomed from the get go.

Again I mentioned before, tech strategies are like fighter pilots aiming. There is lead targeting, prime targeting and lag targeting. Nokia and Microsoft are always on the third, while Apple and Google is doing the first.
 
Nokia is a big fish compared to HTC. So I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia becomes WP7 development partner, not just using WP7 on Nokia phones.
 
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Simply put Linux OS = Growth



*Sigh* I don't even know why Elop would even hint at WM7.


Tune in tomorrow for an all new reality episode of Nokia TV and bring the popcorn...
 
If the E7 is the best device Nokia is going to have this year, they are in worse trouble than I thought. It's not remotely competitive in terms of either hardware or software with the best Android phones available now let alone the ones that will be released during the rest of the year.

I have always assumed that despite its recent woes, Nokia would come up with an impressive device with state-of-the-art hardware and Meego in 2011. It's really the minimum they need to recover. So I am really confused about the supposed N9 cancellation. If they aren't going to produce a flagship device with Meego what have they been doing for the last two years?
 
wp7 scales just fine. they kept the hardware in a certain range for simplicity sake. when wp7 came out last year, there were no viable 2 core platforms ready for use. this year is different. they needed to make things simple to start off with so they went with snapdragon, something nokia has never done in their storied history. you will see it scale just fine as it matures. wp7 is not some decades old piece of software that has to be patched up just to make it work on modern hardware. Nokia is making a bet on wp7 at the high end and mid range, at least in NA. And since this is a bet your company wager, they aren't about to make a new bet on a platform that won't scale as processors get more powerful. typical linux fan boy misinformation. the linux crowd takes a huge hit tomorrow as Nokia adopt windows and puts linux on the back burner, to "simmer" away.
 
As far as Nokia and Meego go: there are 99 open positions with Meego as a keyword on Nokia's job site, many of them posted this week. That would imply that they are not about to drop Meego for sure, but we'll all be wiser tomorrow.

Yes, _a_ proto of a Meego phone, rumored to be called N9, is toast. They may of course call Lankku N9 now instead. Although the original Lankku proto is probably also toast by now and there is a new proto with better specs instead.
 
he is right. nokia did say 2011 and 2012 were transition. years. he said the first wp would come in 2011 but 2012 in "volume". nokia is in an extended holding pattern. their employees are walking out today.
 
Nokia's going to keep producing Symbian phones while they're working on WP7 and the couple MeeGo phones. They're not exactly in a holding pattern. Remember, HP had Palm for a pretty damn long time before really doing anything.
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/09/nokia-meego-idUSLDE7181GW20110209

I can't help but laugh at the thousands of comments I've read on tech sites the last few years using Meego to vehemently defend Nokia's many blunders.

From the copious amounts of professional sounding manure typed on the subject you'd have thought Meego was certified ready to save Nokia and propel the smartphone business. They had me convinced.

And come to find out Nokia's scrapping the whole thing for Windows Phone 7 Tile Master 3000. LOL my side hurts.
 
Why would Microsoft do that? They need everything they can get, just as much as Nokia does. They really couldn't stop Nokia from adopting WP7, particularly given that other manufacturers use both Android and WP7. Killing MeeGo doesn't make sense, especially with Alien Dalvik. Get a WP7 device out now, then a MeeGo device later in the year that can cover MeeGo and Android apps (as long as anyone wants to port it, shouldn't be that hard). And then go forward, as MeeGo gets stronger they have their own platform, that's also part of the Android ecosystem. It could be a similar deal to what Palm did with Windows Mobile on the Treos - a good stop gap until the next OS comes out.



They already have WP7 running on the N9. They just need to do a redesign (probably the keyboardless version Eldar mentioned) to make it compliant and then go ahead. They could have it out during H1, and certainly some time this year. It'd also be the only penta-band WP7 device out there.
 
I think you're still in denial. symbian is going EOL. end of life. Meego is going into the dustbin. Nokia stock is down over 20% in two days. Nokia, at best, is in a holding pattern. I expect the stock to trade in a range between $5 and $10 for two years.
 
You're confusing me with someone else. I'm not in denial at all. Yes Symbian is End of Life, but they'll keep selling phones anyway, because it'll turn a profit. It's just Symbian R&D is ended now, and some handsets will continue being produced.
 
So, if I'm Samsung or HTC or LG and I CAN'T customize but Nokia can, why would I want to continue supporting WP7. Especially when Android is "free". I don't, so I ditch the platform. That leaves Nokia as the sole provider of WP7 phones, basically a hostage to Microsoft. Not a good situation. I'm not a conspiracy freak, but I can forsee a day when Microsoft takes over Nokia simply because it will have no choice. If it wants a mobile OS, Nokia will be the only game in town.
 
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