“Sell your soul to the devil”
That was my initial thought about Nokia going in bed with Microsoft and having the Nokia/WP7 device, but I’ve calmed down for a week or so and what do I think now?
Well my opinion hasn’t change, to be honest I’m not a great Microsoft fan to start with, Ubuntu and Linux all the way for this bhoy! So my initial reaction was screw you NOKIA and selling souls and all that, but I’ve had time to read over everyone’s thought’s and read all the tweets, emails, messages, etc… from all the Nokia employee’s I know and fan’s I know AND know what??????
I’m sorry NOKIA but you’ve SCREWED up!
You’ve messed about with probably the best mobile brand for the last 2 years FANNYing about about what bloody OS is the best that you’ve thrown what great product you had in Symbian in the bin to go with friggin Microsoft and Mobile Windows. Seriously are you saying to me WM is better than Symbian? I think management at Nokia has totally screwed with the BEST mobile phone manufacturer and developer, maybe Nokia has become to big for itself, but do you really think Microsoft is the better option?
I despair at the thought of waiting AGAIN for a smooth operating system from Nokia, what was really wrong with Symbian? I don’t think anything! I just think Google played a really good card in letting the community go riot with the OS and create their own variants of the Google FW. Why struggle with a group of PAID employees to sort your problems when you can open it up for anyone and everyone to help refine and develop for you for free? Listen give it a year and Google OS will be in lock down!!!!!!
So where did Nokia go wrong then? I think they didn’t act quick enough and tart up the UI for Symbian, but wait, they had loads of time and they had enough people moaning about it, so what’s happened? Did Nokia become so big and so divisionalized that they could not react to change as quickly as what was expected, did the opposition play a full house and play the game better than Nokia. Well YES YES YES
Why is Nokia in the state its in? They thought no one could beat them! Oh and they didn’t react quick enough to stop it happening and to improve the product they had!
Can Nokia with the BEST hardware on the market win back everyone with the best OS on the market? Eh NO, cos Windows Mobile is just, well, does anyone have a Windows Mobile phone to tell me what the OS is like? Eh NOOOOOOOO, cos no one’s bought a friggin WM phone! If Nokia had thrown Google Android onto their phones we would be sitting here now saying what a move by Nokia, the best hardware with the smoothest operating system, this is the FUTURE! But wait they didn’t go down that route, they sold the Nokia hardware to Microsoft for a price and are now waiting to see if Windows Mobile can compete with Android.
#FAIL #FAIL #FAIL
I joked at Christmas time when the rumours of a Nokia/WM device surfaced that I’d close nokiAAddict down if Nokia went with Microsoft, well its happened and I’ll retract on what I said and not close the website down, but I’ll not be posting again and leave the site the way it is till NOKIA wake up and realise they should have bet on Black OR Red rather than Double Zero?
To all my Nokia/OVI friends in Finland, I love you all and see you on the other side 
THE END
I could not agree more, well said.
Right by every word….If it was Android they could only worry about hardware. But now they have to also worry about Software and try to bring it close to Symbian’s level which is gonna take a long time. And I seriously don’t think, Nokia should customize WP. Now when every other windows phone users on other branded phones gets update, nokia users will have to wait for their own customized versions and we know how fast Nokia is good at delivering Firmware Updates.
“I despair at the thought of waiting AGAIN for a smooth operating system from Nokia, what was really wrong with Symbian? I don’t think anything!”
Symbian as you say was lacking a smooth User Interface, and a pleasurable User Experience, and yes, Nokia took too long to do anything to add these vital parts of the Symbian OS, so long other branded handsets also realised this, and decided to drop Symbian as their OS choice, which had a knock on effect, and in actual sense forcing Nokia into a corner to make a drastic move.
And yes, this Windows phone alliance is indeed drastic, but you do need to see the larger picture what Nokia can get from this alliance. We are not talking about what you will see in the next year or so, its what you will see, and enjoy in 5 years time from the partnership.
There will be a massive, massive amount of consumers being given the choice to surf the internet for example who have never been able to before, and don’t own a computer even. Penny for though mate.
I know you are disapointed but the symbian community and users was decreasing, even if Nokia changed their UI a year ago who would want a Symbian?
Nokia can’t keep making phones for just a small group of people and I’m talking about symbian because they are a lot but decreasing like I said, the same goes for meego as to make it their fully supported os.
Nokia needed something that is popular (not by numbers) but for name, if they customize wp interface it was stated that it won’t interfere with wp updates at all, in the end I think wp can deliver updates to all devices without the fragmentation that android has and that’s a big win for wp (not saying faster but for all).
Android with nokia would be fatal, they just would drop Nokia Maps and ovi so that’s something other nokia fans have to see, it would be worse really.
I believe devices are going to be great, users will get more apps and a great interface, its annoying how people go all “but its M$” wow just grow up.
android is most definitely not the “smoothest” OS! it is the laggy-est thing ever!! windows phone 7 isn’t bad at all!and its not WM7… it just needs some more features which will be on nokia phones by the time they get to actually releasing one.
Nokia sold about 5 million Nokia n8′s last year alone. Yeah no one’s got a symbian phone
Take a look at the graph in this post.
http://mynokiablog.com/2011/02/21/visualising-a-quarter-of-a-billion-symbian-users-more-than-android-and-ios-smartphones-combined/
And guess what, we drop the best and pick the worse, in amount of users.
I was also disappointed with the announcement on the 11th. After the initial shock, I’m kind of looking forward to seeing what Nokia can do with WP7. My teen aged daughter (who uses an N97 mini) was excited when I told her the news. Some of her friends have WP7 phones and I guess they have a certain “cool” factor with the younger set. When she saw the mock ups of the Nokia WP7 handsets, she told me that it was her next phone. Myself, I just ordered an N8 to replace my E72…..
I’m sorry to hear that you will no longer be pursuing Nokiaaddict for now. Nokia’s move was surprising. I was discussing the night before with people and I said not even in my wildest dream would I have thought MicroSoft. And, I was wrong. Damn.
MicroSoft can not bring anything of relevance to Nokia as far as I can see.
Hope the best for the future, but if you ever feel like giving a helping hand to a little Operating System with big hopes called MeeGo, you will find a friend at MeeGoExperts