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Nokia & Microsoft Partnership announced!

So it’s confirmed — Nokia has partnered with Microsoft to offer Windows Phone platform on Nokia hardware. See full details of the press release below.

We covered the possibility that Nokia might embraced a new platform and the bet was between Google’s Android OS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS. Looks like Microsoft won the bid.

Strangely enough, the market didn’t take the partnership well — Nokia’s shares dipped past 13% after the announcement.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

45 Responses

  1. Avatar for therohan therohan says:

    This is going to be a great partnership. The world’s leading phone manufacturer with an awesome OS. It will get better and better. Just look at iOS. When it was released it was laughable and now it is rockin. What is the point of being so disappointed? Just give it some time and we will definitely see success.

    I think Nokia has the license to customize WP7 now, which is a good thing. Actually, they claim they’ll be working in partnership with MS to that purpose. So, I’m already assuming that the WP7 OS we’ll find on Nokia phones will be to some degree different (albait compatible, I really hope) from the one on other hardware producers.

    I also think it will be quite likely we’ll see other features I can’t really understand why are currently missing in WP7, such as thetering and Sync with Outlook.
    In other words, I think this degree of exclusivity may be enough to generate that uniqueness that is indeed needed to compete against the iPhone.
    Check this to see what other developers have to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfWFvCJJaNs

  2. Avatar for dan dan says:

    These are the Disadvantages
    of WP 7 as given by GSMArena
    on their WP 7 review :
    * No system -wide file manager
    * No videocalling
    Limited third-party apps
    availability
    * No Bluetooth file transfers
    * No USB mass storage mode
    * No multitasking
    * No copy /paste
    Too dependent on Zune
    software for computer file
    management and syncing
    * No music player equalisers
    * No Flash or Silverlight
    support in the web browser
    * No sign of free Bing maps
    Navigation so far
    No DivX /XviD video support
    * No internet tethering support
    * New ringtones available only
    through the Marketplace
    * Swapping memory card
    requires hard reset ; cards not
    readable by computer
    Do you think is it a good
    choice or what ?windows phone is crap

  3. Avatar for Leland Leland says:

    Good choice for Nokia. Its been 1year using wp7, I hope price and features for this is beat more cheaper than apple iphone and androids platforms phones

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