Nokia WP7 rumour

http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2011/02/come-on-nokia-set-the-market-alight.html

Oh, please, please, please be true ..

I've been hearing about it for a little while now too.

I wonder if they'll be the first manufacturer to put a front facing camera on a WP7 phone? Of course they will need software that takes advantage of the camera... Just thinking out loud I guess

Silverlight for Meego would be cool as well

 I hope it is true too. Win ph need a strong western player. So far they are all Asian manufactures, and western consumers still favor western manufacture, at least a bit subconsciously.

I don't consider any of the current Nokia or WP7 phones to be compelling enought to buy.

However, a Nokia N8 running WP7... that might be an interesting toy to play with.

7 hours ago, elmer wrote

I don't consider any of the current Nokia or WP7 phones to be compelling enought to buy.

However, a Nokia N8 running WP7... that might be an interesting toy to play with.

I take it that you've never heard of the N9. http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9-3398.php

100% true

Nokia+Wp7 at MWC

@cbae:N9 is still just rumour at this point.

From Stephen Elop’s recent missive to the troops:

“We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market.”

That doesn't raise my hopes of an early N9 announcement, and given the excruciating delays in shipping the N8... I have even less hope of actually seeing an N9 for sale.

Lets be honest, while brave, that leaked memo isn't going to do much for confindence in the Company.  Nokia need their own Niche in an already crowded market. 

I can see there is always a demand for 'the best' and maybe that is where Nokia is heading.  Alternatively there is also a market for cheaper smartphones - but that arena probably has its roots in China. 

I can't see them taking the novelty path (3D smartphone?), or moving away from their core business (phones). Either way Friday will be interesting.

Nokia was founded in 1871, so they have had a long time to develop great phones.

26 minutes ago, Proton2 wrote

Nokia was founded in 1871, so they have had a long time to develop great phones.

They did, right up until around 2006 when they got internal fragmentation and management believed the old business model of "chep crap phones for consumers, expensive smartphones for businesses, and gimmicky phones for everyone else" would still work. Thanks to Apple's disruptive market forces everyone wants a smartphone now, and Nokia failed to deliver.

It's a shame because Nokia is capable of thinking up great ideas, like in 2003 they tried to get out the idea of "prescence" on a phone (like your current status on Messenger) so people can know that you're busy/away before they phone you. Something like that would be incredibly useful, but it never saw adoption.

Google CEO comment on Twitter:

So it doesn't look like Nokia will be going with Android then ...

sigh, Vic was a 'good guy' when he works for microsoft

I think people are forgetting that in a year or two, the minimum WP7 hardware requirements will be easily attainable by much cheaper phones. At that point, having someone else do all the R&D and support for the OS (MS), could be a positive for a company like Nokia.

For some reason people often think that rolling your own OS or having to heavily customize Android for your hardware is always cheaper than just paying the $15 (or whatever) for WP7 and not have to worry about R&D or OS support.

For some reason people often think that rolling your own OS or having to heavily customize Android for your hardware is always cheaper than just paying the $15 (or whatever) for WP7 and not have to worry about R&D or OS support.

They need something to differentiate themselves from everyone else. What sets phones apart in the software is just as important as the hardware. In the past it was largely only major phone manufacturers who could afford to spend time to develop nice software platforms, the small players had to make entry-level software, but the hardware capabilitie between them is largely the same (GSM receiver, display, plastic case, etc).

If Nokia's going to adopt WP7 they're going to need to have something really special in the hardware department, such as a retina display of their own (but is WP7 compatible with this?), longer battery life, form-factor, etc). They are free to extend WP7, but because WP7 doesn't expose any kind of native or platform-specific API it means that if Nokia were to add extra sensors or other 'cool' hardware third-party developers wouldn't be allowed to make use of it, limiting it to their own in-house applications, which I can already say will probably suck.

It is just best to use WinPh7 for now, they can make their own shell on top of WinCE7 later on. I think people just want a phone that works and look cool. Meaning, good screen and long battery life and decent performance and good build-in storage size.

And include some nice app like what HTC did, a "real" flashlight, attentive phone (move it will lower ring volumn since you gonna pick it up anyway), and other stuff. I say, a good free exclusive game would attract some crowd.

Although they are indeed too late. I already got my HTC Surround, even if they go with WInPh7, I already got one and it will take me 2 years to have discount on another phone.