Nokia to Make WP7 Phones?

http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/12/20/holy-crap-nokia-is-in-talks-with-microsoft-about-windows-phone-devices/

by nextparadigms • 16 years ago

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rbanffy3• 16 years ago

It seems that by planting Elop on the CEO position at Nokia, Microsoft has perfected the use of outplacement as an offensive weapon.

stuaxo2• 16 years ago

There goes Meego and then Nokia I guess.

stuaxo2• 16 years ago

Ah just seems that it's an Op Ed ... so should be taken with a large box of malden sea salt.

partypoopin• 16 years ago

The apparent source of this information is hardly a person that is considered to be reliable. Eldar has a track record of false rumors for the purpose of gaining more attention to himself.

rbanffy3• 16 years ago

Since I won't buy a Nokia phone in the near future, I think I'll just sit and wait.

Too bad. Their hardware has always been excellent.

ThomPete• 16 years ago

And while we think it's a big deal to most normal people it's a non-event.

greyman• 16 years ago

Not at all surprising to me. Nokia is mostly a hardware company, and they just do not have a software house powerful enough to create mobile OS which could compete with iOS or Android.

Nokia is a good company, especially in the area of dumbphones (still a pretty big segment), but they are just not that good at making software - I tried in the past to use their windows client ;-)).

Nokia hardware + WP7 seems like a good combo to me.

rbanffy3• 16 years ago

I wonder if the Microsoft past of its current CEO would have anything to do with it choosing to go WP7 instead of already market proven Android.

Knack3• 16 years ago

Microsoft needs more then a horde of clone phones. Maybe MS and Nokia can create something special that helps both? (Yes, MS wouldn't do HTC, Samsung etc. a favour with special Nokia treatment). But you're right, Android is certainly more market proven, but also more ordinary.

Supermighty3• 16 years ago

Why wouldn't they choose Android over WP7. I would think Android would offer them more control over the user experience and Nokia branding.

bad_user• 16 years ago

And then have users bitching about not being able to install a bare-bones Android on it? :-)

I don't think going with Android is good. How could they offer anything more compelling than HTC or Samsung or Motorola, which are small players compared to Nokia?

I also think going with WM7 is suicide, but YMMV.

Knack3• 16 years ago

Even though I would prefer Meego all the way, I agree that Nokia and WP7 could be extraordinary. They could mark the standard for business phones. Hardware like the Nokia E7 and full MS office integration. At our company (big car company) they're rolling out iPhones to the management which is just ridiculous.

fredoliveira• 16 years ago

This was actually denied on stage at LeWeb by Nokia's design lead Marko Ahtisaari just over a week ago. His words were something like "Nokia likes to go into businesses where we can add real value, and that includes the software". He was specifically talking about Android and WP7.

Not saying they couldn't change their minds between then and now, but I'd find it weird. Then again, working exclusively on hardware might be the pivot Nokia needs to get out of the hole they carved out for themselves in the past few years.

chapel• 16 years ago

Nothing against WP7 but I think if this were true, Nokia would be digging themselves another hole. Well they may not fall because of WP7 but I just don't see it giving them a chance to become a super start handset maker they once were. If they chose to make Android phones, I would be interested in purchasing one, since the quality of their phones is very high.

blub3• 16 years ago

And what makes you think that Android would be better? Everyone's already doing Android and the models are becoming very similar to each other.

mseebach2• 16 years ago

Nokia has a lot of hardware-tricks up their sleeves. One thing they could do to Android is to make the models stop being so similar to each other. I think, for an example, that an E72 running Android could go a long way in luring away BlackBerry users who are reluctant to give up a HW keyboard. There's currently only one Android device in that space (Desire Z), and it's pretty expensive.

nextparadigms2• 16 years ago

The WP7 phones are much more similar to each other though, both in software and hardware (same chip). Plus, Nokia will have NO control over the OS. And they wouldn't benefit from Android's huge momentum. Even late entrants like LG are selling millions of Android phone units.

I thought they wanted to make their own OS so they don't get commoditized and distinguished only by hardware. How is WP7 helping them doing that? It's much worse than Android in that respect.

Knack3• 16 years ago

I still fail to understand why Nokia doesn't get it done with Software. I mean, look at Meego. Maybe I'm naive but I was really expecting more progress. I thought they were set to go. All they need is development power. Get their Meego core run on selected hardware. Do they put enough ressources there? Are there politics with Intel going on? It is so important to get going. They should know it and put $$ there. All we hear from Nokia is news about Symbian being supported more, which is not really promotion in my opinion. Look at RIM. Look what they do with their playbook and QNX. So much more progress than Nokia. We need diversity and competition in the mobile market. Currently Apple and Google squeeze the money out of our wallets. (And we need more Qt ;-))

madmaze• 16 years ago

This seems like a very odd move for Nokia. I was hoping MeeGo would become there predominant platform. I guess anything is better than Symbian at this point.

Maemo was/is nice, but it needs some more work to really work well in all situations, looking forward to the n900 successor

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