@smegeheadz, 1. In what way was meego a bad idea for current platform for Nokia? I believe some of the "poor results of Meego, slow development etc." argument from Elop has been intended to strengthen his own choice to go for WP rather than based on fact. For example, he stated they only had a few phones in the pipeline/ready for launch, but Apple has been able to compete with only one smartphone on offer, and it's been extremely successful. So proliferation is not necessarily the way to go. 2. How long has WP been in development for and do you have any opinion as to why the development cycle of WP is faster? If it is just resources, then I guess Samsung can catch up.

The argument I saw was that Google's move to buy Motorola could lead Samsung to become marginalized, with three players Apple, Nokia and Google now linking hard and software, and taking the lead. As for Bada, I have limited understanding about how it would perform as a true smartphone/tablet platform. Regardless, Samsung has been successful, and they are afaik, known to have hedged their OS bets.

BTW. I own a Samsung Win Mo 6.5 phone. It's been my best phone to date, although the TouchWiz interface isn't that intuitive, the phone has been stable, dependable, has lots of software alternatives, such as connection to a BT watch which I need, and it has an excellent screen, an area where Samsung seems to be in the lead.