Why Nokia chose WP7 over Android?

Nice points :)

Elop is teh Trojan Horse

To all WP 7 haters, suck it. You whiners are only a marginal representation of consumers. People like Windows, deal with it.

*i can’t wait until i get my hands on

So much for people saying the “Nokia is Finnished…”

Nice observations sir Yuga. Really makes sense for both companies to tie-up.

This really happens for a reason

A very good point Yuga. Very enlightening indeed.

@Gumz

In Yuga’s previous post about WP7 and Nokia’s tie-up, you mentioned:

“Two collaboration of losers in smartphone industry equals one winner? hmmmmmmm!!! doubtful…”

I can assume that you’re either a mental case or seeking attention. Either way, you’re a failure.

I wouldn’t mind going back to Nokia after a few years if they will have a mid-range Nokia WP7 available!

This is EXCITING!!! WOOHOO

I have to disagree with Yuga on these. It seems that Microsoft is the only winner with this one. Nokia is abandoning it’s primary platform and shifting towards windows phone 7 is not practical. I bet the symbian and internal meego department are preparing their resumes now for other companies since it will only take time for the platform to be deprecated. It will take too much cost for nokia in adopting new technologies.Plus microsoft is a tough company to deal with

@Kyle: You should read the article again, and set aside your Anti-MS bias:

1. Forte ng Nokia is hardware.

2. Weakness ng Nokia ang software. Symbian didn’t catchup with Apple iOS, and Meego is the betrayal of Symbian. The only logical move is WP7 or Android.

3. Google is tough company to deal with, laglag ang mga naki-license sa kanila ng Android. If a company licenses Android, the company is liable on patent lawsuits, and Google will just lay back.

4. Nokia is the very first company na puwedeng mag-customize ng WP7. Hindi HTC, Hindi Samsung. If MS is tough, di sana di rin nila pinayagan mag-customize ang Nokia.

5. Nobody said that Nokia won’t also support Android later. Kaya cool ka lang. Or, vote with your wallet, and stop buying Nokia phones kung talagang pinepersonal mo ang Microsoft at Nokia, ganun kasimple. :P

I think the partnership makes sense. Android is already saturated with so many phones. WP7 is fairly new, seems like a good OS, but I can see that it will mature in time.

I am an iOS fan myself but I think that once WP7 reaches its maturity, it might have the power to make me rethink my choice of OS, something that Android had failed to do so far, in spite of the fact that I once ownED an HTC Desire.

Nokia + WP7 = FTW!!!

This is Nokia’s decision. Let’s wait for the year end before getting angry at Nokia. If Nokia fails, then it fails. I think that’s just how open market works.

@All:

When you read between the lines, you know that you give a damn about the Nokia-Microsoft partnership. You give a damn because you know they will be competitive against Apple and Google.

You don’t give a damn on Blackberry. But you gave a good damn of Nokia and Microsoft, like you know they will succeed.

Because if you know they won’t succeed, you won’t give a big damn about it.

Like what I said, a MS coup inside Nokia. Let’s just wait for what will come out of this new partnership.

RIP Symbian^3 and MeeGo(Sort of).

Nokia is trying to be different from the other companies like Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC. If Nokia tries to plunge for Android, how is it going to differ from them.

I think MS is a good leverage in the sense that they are the largest competitor of iOS (Apple) and I don’t think Google as an OS could deliver as well as MS.

Come to think of it, Nokia does suck and all of their products. The intervention of Microsoft was a good thing. Who cares if the Americans supplant these Finnish bastards. All they’re worth for is hardware, nothing else. Symbian, Meego — meh!

Guys, just be ready with your pocket… nabasa nyo naman that these units coming from nokia + WP7 are high-ends…..(WP7 will be installed on flagship and high-end phones (partly due to the high hardware requirements).

naalala nyo pa ba nung lumabas yung nokia 3210?….
ang mahal di ba?

@Pukeman

“A well-thought out coup”

Precisely. Not every coup is bad. Some often lead companies to greater heights.

If Nokia chooses Android, what do you think will happen to Meego?

@ranger

Excuse me, so “putanginang hater” ako?

Does this look gay to you?

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/36/m_11b4dd8a061c6582d63fc8bc7d122909.jpg

Yes, it does.

Android is very Dominant OS today. Almost every manufacturer has android. As what is mentioned above there are lots of cons for nokia in Android. PLUS Stephen Elop is an EX Microsoft he may use this as an advantage for NOKIA like whats happening to SAMSUNG-GOOGLE tie up making NOKIA favorable and have exclusive contents with MOS.

Microsoft should concentrate on computers.

@nonhacker

1. Forte ng Nokia is hardware.
– I agree

2. Weakness ng Nokia ang software. Symbian didn’t catchup with Apple iOS, and Meego is the betrayal of Symbian. The only logical move is WP7 or Android.
-Not true, symbian(software) is not weak, the only reason why symbian fails is because of it’s design which is hard to improve. That’s the reason they started Meego because of symbian’s vulnerabilities. Symbian still conquers most of mobile OS today which is now on the second spot because of android. Being on second place is still a big deal since it can milk money out of the consumers.Truth is smartphone industry is just beginning and there’s too much potential on their meego platform. Abandoning it because it’s half baked is not a good enough to change platform.

– You know the real weakness of Nokia?…It’s not carrier friendly. And that’s where other OS’es shines because their primary company had great relationsip to most cariers and that’s where they started their success. To prove my point here’s a couple of points that would help you understand much better.

Point A – Microsoft’s own phones, its first ever, the Kin phones. They were to release on US carriers, suddenly the carriers didn’t give the subsidies that the Kin phones needed, it did so fast that Kin was killed in 6 weeks – the fastest death in mobile phone history. It was not the desirable OS – not even Microsoft branded OS – it was carrier relationship.

Point B – Palm. The last Palm-branded phone, using WebOS, was greeted as the best phone on the market by many analysts, as good as, some said better, than the iPhone. It didn’t get carrier deals on the four networks – Palm died. Again, not the OS that decided, it was carrier relationship.

3. Google is tough company to deal with, laglag ang mga naki-license sa kanila ng Android. If a company licenses Android, the company is liable on patent lawsuits, and Google will just lay back.

– Google is not a tough company to deal with. Patent lawsuits are caused by Oracle not by Google and Google didn’t lay back. If that would be the case then why the heck is google continuing it’s android fragmentations 2.3 2.4 … 3.0 Honey comb?

In fact Microsoft is a tough company to deal with and you know what they’re good at? Filing lawsuits again… Hope you Googled “Sendo-Microsoft lawsuit”, “HTC favors Android over Microsoft lawsuit”, or “Motorola-Microsoft lawsuit”.

4. Nokia is the very first company na puwedeng mag-customize ng WP7. Hindi HTC, Hindi Samsung. If MS is tough, di sana di rin nila pinayagan mag-customize ang Nokia.

-Pinayagan nila mag customize ng UI and services that will use microsoft technologies but not the internals of WP7. Anyway read again the keywords I highlighted above point 4 and hope you understand how often Microsoft Files lawsuits on other companies. Kaya nga MOTOROLA, SAMSUNG, HTC, SONY ERICSSON favors Android more than Microsoft because of it

5. Nobody said that Nokia won’t also support Android later. Kaya cool ka lang. Or, vote with your wallet, and stop buying Nokia phones kung talagang pinepersonal mo ang Microsoft at Nokia, ganun kasimple. :P

-You think supporting 3 OSes (Microsoft, Symbian, Meego) is an easy thing to do? Hope their management is clever enough that it would cost too much in producing phones in different platforms. And you think supporting another one (Android) would be that easy huh?

And yeah just to help you again… RIM has Blackberry, HP has WebOS, Google has Android, Samsung has BADA, Apple has iOS, Microsoft has WP7 and LG considering on making their own OS and Nokia on Sym….uhhh… WP7. See that????. Technology integration on your hardware is much easier if you have full control of your own Software(OS). And on that case Nokia just leveled down in bringing up PREMIUM phones. If they continued on cooking up Meego and they didn’t get intimated easily then they do have a chance in reclaiming their lost numbers.

and yeah… hope you read my blog I have my points there
http://www.technokyle.com

There must be some points that must be considered and take into consideration, its their choice. http://iloveyou-mydear.blogspot.com/

Android is already crowded. WP7 is promising. Why choose Android if there are already a lot devices that are using that OS. Too bad, MeeGo is a promising OS too but they choose WP7 over that. For those WP7 haters, try nyo muna bago pulaan :). Seriously, WP7 is pure awesomeness. It has Xbox Live, we might see Playstation suite on WP7 soon, Windows Marketplace that is still growing and a lotta more.

There are some features in Symbian that I really like, Hope they port those features to WP7.

Nokia + WP7 = $$$ handset.

Regarding Microsoft and lawsuits: Don’t single them out, and let’s do some more critical thinking!

Let me help you with this infographic of who’s suing who in the mobile phone industry:

http://mashable.com/2010/10/08/lawsuits-mobile-infographic/

#3: Google mocked Nokia. Do you think Nokia will give Android a chance after that? Google’s mocking is so uncalled for and childish.

Google gotta learn how to suck it.

Actually, Google should continue being that, their arrogance is their downfall.

good points sir yuga

Nokia Handset will still be affordable with ANDROID in it.

Basta ako willing bumalik sa Nokia pag meron na silang magandang phone na WP7 platform or Android. Currently naka Samsung Galaxy S ako. Bagal maglabas ng Samsung ng updates nila. Mas focused sila maglabas ng maglabas ng bagong models iniiwan ang mga clients nila. Nokia has a better track record for client support.

Haay kulit. How can you Not be siding Google in your arguments?

Nokia’s glorious days are gone, they were hoping that Meego would pave the way for their resurgence, unfortunately the project have no clear roadmap (at least IMO). As of this writing Meego is nowhere near production, if they stay the course they can only come up with one phone model for 2011, imagine that!

Using Android as OS is no-no for nokia that is why they’ve teamed up with MS which is desperate move if you ask me, I guess Elop (a former MS employee) has something to do with it. If they think this move allow them to catch up with Android and Apple, they’re dead wrong.

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1. Wala nang magagawa ang Google. Nokia will still use Symbian on lower-end devices slowly phasing in WP7.
http://www.neowin.net/news/nokia-to-phase-out-symbian-in-favor-of-wp7

2. Nokia concept phones are looking good.
http://www.neowin.net/news/nokia-windows-phone-7-concepts-show-a-bright-future

3. Nokia is given mode freedom to customize WP7.
http://www.neowin.net/news/nokia-granted-exclusive-rights-to-customize-wp7

4. I don’t care if Google will lose, if we, the consumers win because of this mobile phone wars. And I’m glad Apple started this war. Finally, the end of phones that suck, and more good phones to choose from!

Hope that the price of the NOKIA WP7 should be much cheaper than other SMARTPHONES so that people can this SMARTPHONE. Other SMARTPHONE like ACER, HTC, & SAMSUNG GALAXY SMARTPHONE cost double or triple.

Smart communications smartphone called net phone
http://technoodling.net/smarts-new-netphone-is-worlds-first-with-wac/

you really have a thick skull… nuff said hahahaha

to many adroid fanatics without even a single android phone…hahaha nakikisabay lang..3230 rules!!!

Let’s just see the result. I think ugh… Hands down. I hated Nokia for its laggy and somewhat outdated Symbian Os. But when I saw this article I’m thinking again to look back to my ex-lover Nokia. Nagsawa ako sa Symbian and I left Nokia. Then I fell in love with SE. Now, WP7+Nokia= Big change. :P

@boo
>some of us appreciate competition which hopefully brings better phones at more affordable prices

This is what -tards and morons simply don’t get. Competition breeds innovation. With a healthy, competitive market, no one loses.

maybe!!!!—>>>Microsoft should concentrate on computers.

but its a FACT that mobile users are nore than PC users! dito na lang sa atin no wag ka nang tumingin sa iba!

AS OF NOW THE APPS DEVELOPERS CHOOSES ANDROID OVER WP7.. THATS WHY PARANG DI SYA PINAPANSIN..

BUT IF NOKIA DEVELOP CHEAP WP7 PHONES(BELOW 15K), WELL THATS A DIFFERENT STORY….

(THE SUCCESS OF O.S. IS IN THE APPS AND SOFTWARE)

FOR NOW ITS EPIC FAIL……

sa lahat ng ginagawa nila tyong mga buyer ang makikinabang…more competition more price cut ang makukuha natin sa mga smartphone :))

I have htc sense (android), iphone 3g and htc hd7 (wp7).

It’s a pure fact that MS WP7 is really a nice OS. most of the post here doesn’t make any sense.

Stereotyping yourself just to make WP7 looks bad is pure fail.

WP7 Up, kailan kaya ma-rerelease dito sa pinas?

im from the future and nokia will use android in the future