[StylinRed]

I'll kind of be re-iterating here but

it wouldnt be a horrible idea if they didnt announce the death of symbian when the earliest we can expect a wp7 device is at the end of the year that's if Microsoft creates the Dev tools without issue for Nokia in time (they aren't going to be creating the os/developing it for nokia at all other than creating dev tools) And then it depends on Nokia releasing something on schedule.... (lol)


By announcing Symbians death a year-2years before Nokia won't be dependent on it Elop essentially killed support for Symbian externally (many developers have ceased projects that are in development) and has killed support internally (if you look at the R&D forecast). He killed interest by the public in it as well who's going to buy a symbian smartphone when there's no support and no devs?


Also WP7 has a lot of hurdles it has to get through atm

wp7 currently doesnt have:
no system-wide file manager
no Bluetooth file transfers
no USB mass storage mode
no Flash (nor Silverlight) support in the browser
dependent on Zune software for file management and syncing
no video calls
new ringtones available only through Marketplace
music player lacks equalizer presets
no multitasking
no copy/paste
no DivX/XviD video support
Bing maps doesn’t have free Navigation (supposedly there will be a free version on nokia phones except it will be riddled with Advertisements)
no internet tethering support
no handwriting recognition support
no support for usb-on-the-go
no support for hdmi

Everything Symbian had...


Not only this but Nokia has given up its technology to Microsoft technology that will be integrated into WP7 for use across all device makers using WP7 (lg, samsung, htc, etc)

How will Nokia remain Unique here? when all WP7 phones will be running Ovi Maps (likely to be coined as Bing Maps) using the OviStore etc etc etc etc (dont really want to reiterate so much)

And on top of all that Nokia will be paying Microsoft Royalties and not the other way around! (as part of the deal they've given many features away to microsoft for free such as Maps)

+ Nokia has pissed off a massive list of Developers and partners such as Intel and its QT wing (with clients like Dreamworks etc, who upgraded all their animation tools to run on QT) all its supporters and partners essentially


So now Nokia will be in limbo for, at the very least, 1year until the WP7 devices roll out during this time they could die... literally

They've risked it all with nothing to fall back on... when they could have easily placed safeguards until they were 100% ready with WP7



i must have missed a lot here but that should get the point across