Their bond with MS and Mr. Elop, may preventing them from using or continuing their other OS; MeeGo was abandon the moment it was born, or should say before it was born, it was pre-mature born, lol.
Win8 is MS not Nokia, Nokia just provide the hardware device. I wonder what or how much can Nokia do/change the OS. As previous talk with someone from Nokia, they can't even control or decide for allowing bluetooth file transfer. The OS belong to MS.
With Win8, I strongly doubt it will even be able to compete or provide what other smartphone OS can do (iOS excluded).
Firstly, I can't understand why they even want to restrict bluetooth file transfer, and this is so not Microsoft. Any other REAL OS that does this? It just sound weird if you talk about a mobile computer that don't let you do this or do that. For iOS, it's understandable because it was not a mobile computer to begin with or evolved from it, it was evolved from an MP3 player device. Windows Phone following it blindly is a no brainer.
And, Windows hone OS, only allows 1 MOBILE number per contact. How stupid can that be? I mean, Microsoft? The software giant? The company which makes Pocket PC OS, Windows Mobile, Database Management software, etc.?
It's really really extremely hard to believe they can do such design, what's worst, it's already 7.5 Mango, and MS people who uses it doesn't notice this problem? Or they didn't really use it at all? How to Tango like this?
With such OS, it's definitely NOT for everyone; But for people who can live with iOS restrictions and limitations, they may not have much problem with it, plus it's got this "People Hub" which will be interesting for those who loves social networking like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
But for 808 PureView, definitely not suitable to use Windows Phone OS; at least for now.
For many "usual" Nokia smartphone user or other true smartphone user, they will at least face problems like below:
http://dailymobile.se/2012/02/20/nokia-nee...-keep-its-base/NOTE: That's just "some" of the list, there's more. But some of the list mentioned above, it's the OS limitations/restrictions, only MS can change.