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Booh! on 04 February 2011
disolitude said:

[...]We doubt it, but it's within the realm of reason.[...]

It's the long rumored Office for Symbian. After that WP7 bombed, it's a reasonable move for MS.



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radiantshadow92 on 04 February 2011
snakenobi said:
disolitude said:
snakenobi said:
radiantshadow92 said:
snakenobi said:

this could bring back both Nokia and MS in the mobile space big time


Or they can drown each other.


hehe

 

that could happen but with the money that these 2 companies have and the amount they invest in R&D,they could even do wonders.

NOKIA has the best hardware and MS has the best software.

NOKIA and MS both spend close to $4BILLION in R&D last year


True...nokia phones are usually the best spec wise and pretty Buletproof. Their R&D is insane...

Nokia still has a 35% marketshare globaly of smartphone market which makes them number 1.But they have lost 15% in the last 2 years. Whats dragging them down is Symbian OS on their phones which is pretty outdated at this point. If they can get some help in the OS market...wether its Android or WM7, they have a really good chance of maintaing their marketshare lead.

nokia still has the marketshare but they really haven't stood out for soemtime and a big share of their sales come from all types of budget phones in developing countries..

they need something new to standout.

they can get help from android and WP7 but that really won't do the job as they will go fom a standout company to being on of the hardware producers like all else android stuff which has the same thing just a different hardware

 

theyt need something like APPLE,have a new hardware and new OS optimized just for their phones.

I think they just need to make something cheap yet effective for consumers. Their hardware just cost too much money and isn't even worth it. It will definitely benefit from Microsoft. But i don't know if Microsoft will benefit much from them.



Xen on 04 February 2011

Symbian is going the way of the dinosaurs... I'll miss it, but WM7 is a good tradeoff...



disolitude on 04 February 2011
Booh! said:
disolitude said:

[...]We doubt it, but it's within the realm of reason.[...]

It's the long rumored Office for Symbian. After that WP7 bombed, it's a reasonable move for MS.


Why would they need a partnership announcement for that? They would never make MS office mobile exclusive to Symbian so...



Booh! on 04 February 2011
disolitude said:
Booh! said:
disolitude said:

[...]We doubt it, but it's within the realm of reason.[...]

It's the long rumored Office for Symbian. After that WP7 bombed, it's a reasonable move for MS.


Why would they need a partnership announcement for that? They would never make MS office mobile exclusive to Symbian so...

The former CEO of MS business division (Office) is employed at Nokia now. A partnership is needed for a good app, MS knows how to program a good Office-like application, Nokia knows how to program a good Symbian application.

From 2009:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136582/Microsoft_Nokia_team_to_put_Office_apps_on_mobile_phones



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snakenobi on 04 February 2011
radiantshadow92 said:
snakenobi said:
disolitude said:
snakenobi said:
radiantshadow92 said:
snakenobi said:

this could bring back both Nokia and MS in the mobile space big time


Or they can drown each other.


hehe

 

that could happen but with the money that these 2 companies have and the amount they invest in R&D,they could even do wonders.

NOKIA has the best hardware and MS has the best software.

NOKIA and MS both spend close to $4BILLION in R&D last year


True...nokia phones are usually the best spec wise and pretty Buletproof. Their R&D is insane...

Nokia still has a 35% marketshare globaly of smartphone market which makes them number 1.But they have lost 15% in the last 2 years. Whats dragging them down is Symbian OS on their phones which is pretty outdated at this point. If they can get some help in the OS market...wether its Android or WM7, they have a really good chance of maintaing their marketshare lead.

nokia still has the marketshare but they really haven't stood out for soemtime and a big share of their sales come from all types of budget phones in developing countries..

they need something new to standout.

they can get help from android and WP7 but that really won't do the job as they will go fom a standout company to being on of the hardware producers like all else android stuff which has the same thing just a different hardware

 

theyt need something like APPLE,have a new hardware and new OS optimized just for their phones.

I think they just need to make something cheap yet effective for consumers. Their hardware just cost too much money and isn't even worth it. It will definitely benefit from Microsoft. But i don't know if Microsoft will benefit much from them.

acutally both could benefit

MS could profit from the WP7 software and WP7 app market and NOKIA could profit from HW

it will be really tough as NOKIA isn't cool company and thats why they need to do something totally new that would suprise people



Rainbird on 04 February 2011

I hope they do announce something with WP7. Nokia really needs to regain some relevance in the smartphone arena, and I really want to see where WP7 is headed, so Nokia and Microsoft teaming up over a WP7 lineup of phones could be great news!

I'm really looking forward to hearing what announcements Microsoft are bringing to MWC, go WP7!



AussieGecko on 05 February 2011

OH MY FU%#ING GOD!!!!

 

This could be MS greatest partnership in terms of relevence. Lets be honest we all expected MS to do something, but if this is true... wow... I would never have expected this, especially with Nokia recently purchasing Symbian fully... it doesn't make sense.... NOKIA win 7 phone OH MY GOD...

 

Take deep breaths...

Rainbird decide your phone after this announcement :D



 

Bet with Conegamer and Doobie_wop 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

AussieGecko on 05 February 2011
Booh! said:
disolitude said:

[...]We doubt it, but it's within the realm of reason.[...]

It's the long rumored Office for Symbian. After that WP7 bombed, it's a reasonable move for MS.


um... it didnt? Its not selling fantastically well but at least in australia more and more people are getting them. The word of mouth is spreading.

Some people have an anti-MS stance... like yourself from the looks of it. People are finally starting to come around.



 

Bet with Conegamer and Doobie_wop 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

Rainbird on 05 February 2011
AussieGecko said:

Rainbird decide your phone after this announcement :D

Don't worry, I wasn't buying one before it no matter what.