Reply to: Nokia to use windows OS

[russell]

Your gran can't use a smart-phone. WP7 is only for smart phones. Are Nokia dropping regular mobiles then, or had they already? Is anyone still making a regular mobile phone designed for phoning and texting only?

Are sony still making walkmans?

[d000hg]

It is Nokia I'm worried about.

They plan to drop all forms of their OS in favour of an MS OS.

The simple Nokia interface is great, just not sellable. Now they're replacing it with something your gran will have no chance with. Short sighted thinking.

Your gran can't use a smart-phone. WP7 is only for smart phones. Are Nokia dropping regular mobiles then, or had they already? Is anyone still making a regular mobile phone designed for phoning and texting only?

[Cliphead]

Oh well. Now I don't feel so bad about accidentally chucking my old Symbian programming book away. Win 7 and Android only phone OS worth bothering with in my view.

Just imagine a UNIX phone. The utterly incomprehensible geeky programming instructions. Downloading apps from a website that looked like a 1980s BBC micro page.

Runs for cover as hordes of enraged UNIX zombies emerge.

I have an Android phone and a Motorola Xoom tablet but still like the Nokia N900 phone. Yes it's linux and I've managed to squeeze in full Linux distro and got it running Why? I like to tinker, I know Linux and at a push I can do just about everything for work on the Nokia when out and about.

[doodab]

Oh well. Now I don't feel so bad about accidentally chucking my old Symbian programming book away. Win 7 and Android only phone OS worth bothering with in my view.

Just imagine a UNIX phone. The utterly incomprehensible geeky programming instructions. Downloading apps from a website that looked like a 1980s BBC micro page.

Runs for cover as hordes of enraged UNIX zombies emerge.

I believe you've just described Chuchill's dream phone

[xoggoth]

Oh well. Now I don't feel so bad about accidentally chucking my old Symbian programming book away. Win 7 and Android only phone OS worth bothering with in my view.

Just imagine a UNIX phone. The utterly incomprehensible geeky programming instructions. Downloading apps from a website that looked like a 1980s BBC micro page.

Runs for cover as hordes of enraged UNIX zombies emerge.

[scooterscot]

Everybody is focusing on MS

It is Nokia I'm worried about.

They plan to drop all forms of their OS in favour of an MS OS.

The simple Nokia interface is great, just not sellable. Now they're replacing it with something your gran will have no chance with. Short sighted thinking.

[PRC1964]

I always stand by Gates, do not know why.

I made a decent living out of his products as a contractor and I still use them in my current venture. I may curse them when they go wrong, but I do that for non Microsoft products too.

[AtW]

Yeah, who'd use a OS from MS. Oh, about a billion people.

That's a billion people acquired over period of 30 years (that's 3 decades) in a market that they owned most of this time.

[d000hg]

Does the hindenburg ring any bells?

Abandon ship! Sell Sell sell!

Yeah, who'd use a OS from MS. Oh, about a billion people.

[doodab]

It is. Win 7 Mobile actually doesn't look that bad, from what I've seen. Still, they'll bork it up somehow. If there's a way, they will.

Frankly it could be windows 95 ^ vista and chuck in all the spare bugs they had left over from IE1 through 6, and it would still be an improvement on Symbian.

[MarillionFan]

I always stand by Gates, do not know why.

You're too fat to climb over?

[minestrone]

It is. Win 7 Mobile actually doesn't look that bad, from what I've seen. Still, they'll bork it up somehow. If there's a way, they will.

I always stand by Gates, do not know why.

[realityhack]

I thought that was very old news.

It is. Win 7 Mobile actually doesn't look that bad, from what I've seen. Still, they'll bork it up somehow. If there's a way, they will.

[minestrone]

I thought that was very old news.

[amcdonald]

Microsoft might even buy Nokia