Amazing day, eh? Something many of us thought would never happen just hit the smartphone industry like a sweaty madman screaming at developers. But rest easy, even though Windows Phone 7 is being billed as Nokia's "primary smartphone platform," your OS hasn't suffered an untimely death, MeeGo and Symbian fans. Here's what Nokia has in store for MeeGo:

    "Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices, platforms and user experiences. Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product later this year."

Likewise, Symbian isn't going away either:

    "With Nokia's planned move to Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform, Symbian becomes a franchise platform, leveraging previous investments to harvest additional value. This strategy recognizes the opportunity to retain and transition the installed base of 200 million Symbian owners. Nokia expects to sell approximately 150 million more Symbian devices in the years to come"

Jo Harlow, new exec in charge of Smart Devices, will grab the MeeGo reins in addition to responsibility for Symbian Smartphones and and Strategic Business Operations.

WP7 and Meego are in conflict, if they go with WP7, you can expect meego to "die". As a platform, nokia cannot have 2 competing products, they have to choose one. Sadly, it seems like they chose the inferior platform

Wrong move.. Should have choose Android.

Well what to do, the current new boss was ex-microsoft...so he choose to alliance wth his own ex-boss.

Wrong move.. Should have choose Android.

Well what to do, the current new boss was ex-microsoft...so he choose to alliance wth his own ex-boss.

He's a f***ing mole planted there by microsoft. What a prick, WP7 is not going to take them anywhere

Wrong move.. Should have choose Android.

Well what to do, the current new boss was ex-microsoft...so he choose to alliance wth his own ex-boss.

Wouldn't making a WP7 make Nokia even more of an 'another hardware maker'? WP7 offers no variation in terms of specs with its strict tech requirements. Look at all the WP7 phones out there. I can't tell the difference, other than one with AMOLED, one with physical keyboard. That's about it.

So in choosing WP7, it's more of choosing brand than choosing specs. You like a HTC WP7? Get the HD7! (Yeah I know mozart and the other one. Frankly I don't see the significant difference). Want a Samsung? Get the Omnia 7! Want an LG? Get the Optimus 7! What's the main difference between all these WP7 phones? You get the point.

There's no 'in between' in WP7. There is one WP7. It's sorta like making iPhones, but by many manufacturers. Same experience, everytime, in every one.

That's a major shift for Microsoft, who forbade HTC from skinning Windows Phone 7 with Sense, something the Taiwanese company would surely have loved to do, and limited it to the introduction of a self-contained Hub. Now Nokia's saying it -- perhaps exclusively -- has been given the liberty to play around inside WP7 to its heart's content

If Microsoft really did allowed that (coz Elop backtracked saying they won't tinker too much, probably coz he probably said it without consulting Balmer first), HTC and other manufacturers will be looking for similar privileges too, or else WP7 on these brands will be a one-off, and WP7 will be left to one brand. And depends on how it develops, will either be a Nokia-Symbian kind of domination in the 2005 era, or WP7 will fizzle out and make MS decide to close down it's mobile OS division.

HTC once said they're allowed to customise WP7 too. In the end all they had was a HTC Hub. Yay?

MS won't let WP7 die, but WP7 will die on it's own if this trend of not-interesting-ness of WP7 continues.

Wouldn't talk about XBOX coz I'm a non-gamer. But AFAIK XBOX was a success, but only because of Halo.

I'm ex-WM user-lor..And I hate that platform long time ago..WP7 although i hv not used it b4 but from the Youtube clip, the iu dun looks good and I stil prefer S^3 in N8.

Furthermore, I heard WP7 having connectivity problem similar to Ios i.e you can't BT file trf, can't connect via USB & copy & paste proble. On current S^#, trf of files via BT are superb & even you can opy & paste whatever files via USB  and even a thumbdrive. I dun think any other platforms having these right now...Well..hopefully Nokia on WP7 in future