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[What's Burning?]

With he recent partnership between Nokia and Microsoft, I look at the following with some sympathy.

We know how you feel about the apparent death of Symbian, and you had to figure that those most affected by it wouldn't be feeling too good either. Those people are, of course, the 1,500-odd workers at Nokia's Tampere office who have crafted the OS through the years, over a thousand of whom apparently walked away from their jobs today as a sort of non-violent protest -- or maybe just to get a preview of what their Friday afternoons will look like once Elop starts dropping the axe. It should be noted that they used their flexible work schedules to enable this, so this is one orderly bit of social dissonance that shouldn't result in any accelerations of whatever layoffs are to come.

[myownalias]

That is sad as I have a 5th generation Symbian device from Nokia, first Nokia I have ever bought and I think it works well, guess if it's going to be a Microsoft tie-up, I won't be getting another Nokia, I got the phone I have now, Nokia 5800 because I didn't want to have the ubiquitous iPhone or Droid phone that everyone has. Anyway, Windows phones are horrid, I've had two and both were very unreliable and not the most user friendly!

[What's Burning?]

The issue with Nokia was a combination of a few things that resulted in never being able to break into the US market with the OS, and an unwillingness to play by the rules in the American pricing market of subsidizing handsets and lastly not playing in the CDMA world.

The OS itself was ahead of it's time for a long time, but then along came the iPhone and in one fell swoop, made everything else at the time seem antiquated. The UI functionality of most smart phone operating systems of the last couple of years has made tremendous strides because of it, not just in the user interface but in functionality security and capabilities.

I don't think this marrige between them and Microsoft is a bad thing, Windows Mobile 7 is not a bad OS, it's a good platform that with a few solid pieces of hardware a Microsoft's financial muscle will make inroads.

So basically we're now left with the iOS, WM7, Android, and WebOS, and although there may be room for all four, it wouldn't surprise me to see one of those go by the wayside. The PC will ultimately be a thing of the past and our grandchildren will ask us why we ever used wires to connect to the internet.

[Jabberwocky]

I have just moved to android after having to WM phones, and I would not go back.

[What's Burning?]

I have just moved to android after having to WM phones, and I would not go back.

Don't blame you, but Windows Mobile 7 is a completely different animal.

[Jabberwocky]

the ones I had where 6.2 and 6.5 IIRC