Rumor: Microsoft and Nokia to announce partnership (Windows Phone 7 prolly)

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oldschoolfool on 06 February 2011

I have verizon,I'm just waiting for until I'm eligible for an upgrade in 4 months.

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eliasg on 06 February 2011

psrock said:

Nokia makes great hardware, MS makes software. Perfect fit. Although I wish Nokia would try more than one OS.

depends on the economic agreement between the two sites

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heruamon on 07 February 2011

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@AussieGecko and heruamon

lol, I didn't mean to offend the HTC owners with my comment.

I was directing my comment to the 2 slide out HTCs (keyboard and speaker) phones. Especially speaker one seems rather pointless way to add bulkness to a phone. Do either of you have that one?

Otherwise im sure they are all great phones, just a little questionable design choice.

LOL...non taken...I actually had my heart set on that sexy ass Dell Venue Pro, but they TOTALLY JACKED UP the launch of the thing, and I had no intent on waiting months after launch of WP7 for them...M$ has done a pretty nice job of integrating some nice core features into WP7, but that's not to knock Iphone or Android. Over the thanksgiving break while at my sister, we tooled around with her Evo next to my HD7, and they were comparable (other than more apps), so I guess it boils down to preference.

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AussieGecko on 07 February 2011

disolitude said:

@AussieGecko and heruamon

lol, I didn't mean to offend the HTC owners with my comment.

I was directing my comment to the 2 slide out HTCs (keyboard and speaker) phones. Especially speaker one seems rather pointless way to add bulkness to a phone. Do either of you have that one?

Otherwise im sure they are all great phones, just a little questionable design choice.

thats alright haha, I was actually attacking the trophy. It is a piece of shit. 8gb is painful with no memory expansion :(

Good enough phone to play games though.

No keyboard on mine... Am seriously looking at the HD7 and Optimus7 though... if nokia bring out a phone I might look at that as well.

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psrock on 08 February 2011

I am very 70% sure this is happening after this memo.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/

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disolitude on 08 February 2011

psrock said:

I am very 70% sure this is happening after this memo.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/

Thanks for posting this. Pretty strong memo to say the least. Looking forward to Feb 11 announcement.

I don't agree with his statemtn... "Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes."

The OS may have taken the leadership from them but everyone uses android these days. Nokia would be foolish to compete with all phone manufacturers combined sales wise.

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disolitude said:

psrock said:

I am very 70% sure this is happening after this memo.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/

Thanks for posting this. Pretty strong memo to say the least. Looking forward to Feb 11 announcement.

I don't agree with his statemtn... "Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes."

The OS may have taken the leadership from them but everyone uses android these days. Nokia would be foolish to compete with all phone manufacturers combined sales wise.

Nokia is not the only one using symbian, blackberry does use it to, though honestly i think blackberry may move onto android or win7 tbh

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disolitude on 09 February 2011

I don't see them using android after this remark from google.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/09/googles-vic-gundotra-on-nokia-two-turkeys-do-not-make-an-eagl/

That google exec has quite a potty mouth...Perhaps he is talking about Android being free and not generating them revenue as turkey 1 and the fact Microsoft is paying phone carriers to put Bing search engine on Android phones which is also not making them revenue as turkey 2?

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MDMAniac on 10 February 2011

AussieGecko said:

Booh! said:O RLY?

Windows Mobile market share: Q3 2009 = 7.9% -> Q3 2010 = 2.9% (source: Gartner).

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1466313

How the hell does 2009 have anything to do with the windows 7 phone, thus you are proving my statement correct that you seem to be anti-ms. I said the Win 7 user base is growing thanks to word of mouth. I never mentioned Windows Mobile as a whole. Even you in your statement mentioned Win7 phone bombed.

Why bring another topic into it?

Are you in denial or what? The point is that WP7 struggle to outsell even WinMo last quarter. And the market grows big time, mind you! Imagine Windows XP sales on par with Vista, huh?