Originally Posted by patlak (Post 942654)

Why so much in WP7 R&D? Isn't that Microsoft's job? I wonder where them moneyz will go...

Originally Posted by ivlok (Post 942652)

Maybe Elop tenure won't be that long
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:NOK

Originally Posted by Brock (Post 942658)

i can tell you. Its going into the pocket of the devil (elop)

Originally Posted by patlak (Post 942643)

Elop gonna get raped by all satisfied Symbian users. There is a lot.

Originally Posted by patlak (Post 942634)

UI? Simplest thing to fix, it's just spoilers on the car, under the hood Symbian is a Veyron SS.

Originally Posted by mrojas (Post 942664)

If I had been in the press conference, I would have thrown my shoes at him.

Originally Posted by bugelrex (Post 942668)

Its true, its much easier to fix than the stuff under the hood. It was so simple, Nokia screwed it up twice in 3 years even with a HUGE r&d budget!
The UI overhaul on n97, horrid.. horrid experience
The UI overhaul on n8, more consistent but still feels like early 2000.

There's absolutely no reason to expect them to be successful a 3rd time round. The problems are probably due to
- 10+ year old Symbian code turned to spaghetti, code changes very difficult to make without a domino effect over the rest of the code
- poor poor project management and 9am-5pm paycheck Symbian developers who are there just to fix bugs.. not rock the boat

i get the impression the Symbian software department was so fundamentally broken it could not be fixed without mass firings

Originally Posted by twodice (Post 942552)

I actually like the idea of nokia and ms. Nokia still make the best hardware for me.Their build quality is great too

Lets not forget samsung take ages to release updates - e.g all the galaxy range ( and yes i own a tab and a galaxy s)

sony ericsson - look at the x10 and others, no 2.2 for them at all and no xda devs port so far.

lg - piss poor in general.

htc are ok but still make hardware which is questionable in terms of durability - screen issues and the old htc tytn 2/ nearly all htc phones video driver problem for which i have not forgiven them ( i owned a tytn2).

the only other option is th eiphone and ill be lloking closely at the iphone 5 but id rather a nokia build with wp7. ultimatley we all more or less started with win mo anyway so its just continuing the trend.

theres no need for anyone to abandon ship unless you think for some reason the grass is greener on the other side.

still happy with my n900.