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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Easy now, or you will end up like Tomi. The smartphone "war" is lost as far as Nokia is concerned. They have given up. MeeGo is gone and Symbian will be gone pretty soon. They see a future with WP, but the days where Nokia had it all will never come back. WP was lesser of two evils, the other was Android. But you can't look back, you have to look fwd and make the best of what you have right now. WP will be good for Nokia, unless it fails miserably, but if it fails it will be MS that looses, not Nokia. Nokia has already lost. I really don't see MS giving up on this. Even if the Mango iteration should fail (unlikely, but a possibility), they will simply improve further until they get it right, and Nokia is on for the ride.

S40 is much more interesting for Nokia than WP. That is where the volumes are, and that is where they have full control. The C2 touch and type series are smartphones for all practical purposes, and for the moment there is nothing that can compete with it. I am actually considering getting one myself, the market for apps on S40 is like nothing you will ever see, and web-apps looks fun and interesting in many ways. I was skeptical about all this, but this something to consider if you are a developer. Harmattan will hump along for the ride, taking advantage of Ovi and Qt.
There might be a problem for Nokia with S40 because Elop in his wisdom may well have god rid of all the Symbian developers inside Nokia, and if WP fails for instance and Nokia have to start somewhere, what area is left for them that has any developers left inside of the company? just food for thought.

My definition of a smartphone is a device that will play anything you want it too, IF WP get's to that point then count me in !.