Nokia is definitely going downhill.

It makes sense that their next route would be MS WP7 which centers around the Indian software community and Nokia users are mostly Indians.

If you look at Windows Phone Ads the front screen shows an Indian photo album!



While Android development community is more Chinese oriented. Google Android Lab is based in Taipei.
Google establishes Android team in Taiwan
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10194652-94.html

This alliance is nothing without the support of the East Asian countries - China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
Nokia has never gain much entry there and Android is always their preferred mobile OS platform.

While with the console market Microsoft can pump in enough money to overtake the Playstation, the Android is another story,

Behind the Android is giant Google, Samsung, Sony, HTC, China Inc.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Feb 12 2011, 11:17 AM

Android apps/games is only 2nd to Apple iOS and fast catching on.

Older Nokia phones will also not be able to work with NoWin phones until the next batches are out.
They are way behind Android development community

Did you know that WinMo phones are useless? Many of my friends say their WinMo phones frequently drop calls and apps are just crap.
No one wants to pay royalty to M$soft without given the freedom.

My guess is many will buy the NoWin phones and hack them to install other Unix platforms such as Android/Meego/Linux eventually.

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Added on February 12, 2011, 12:16 pmHow can you call it competitive when M$ refuses to lower their Windows software prices when Linux is free?
M$soft has never stepped back when it comes to charging for their Win apps. NoWin phones won't be priced competitively because their phones will include WP7 OS pricing added as well.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Feb 12 2011, 12:16 PM

Even Americans hate using WinMo phones.
They never gain enough market share over there due to the high call drops and buggy interface.
You don't want to have anything to do with M$soft.

Why bother?

For those hoping to have dual boot, yeah those WP7 phones are good enough to support dual boot and maybe there'll be 3rd party support for it once they're out.

Meego is kind of good. I've tried it on my netbook before.

It lacked apps though. So few you can count them with your fingers.Other than that if it picks up with speed, fluidity and had more apps on the same level as Android/iOS it could be a good challenger.

Since when Nokia is owning half of WP7?
It was only Nokia's exclusivity to Symbian with very few other brands using Symbian that made them distinctive.
Going with WP7 doesn't make them this way. LG, HTC, Acer, Dell compete directly with them. In fact there are some other brands such as HTC which makes phone with higher built quality than Nokia when it comes to speaker phone quality, screens & etc.