Of course internet blogs, sites and tech news groups never plagiarise or copy each other at all

I wouldn't suggest for a minute (if I knew what i was talking about) that the Asian market, nor Eastern europe doesn;t already have a strong brand following for Nokia. In fact it's the USA that hasn't got any real strong following for nokia devices and the UK is also seeing major falls in product sales for Nokia.

One big thing that countries like Australia and many asian Markets have is a strong link and familiarity with symbian and no interest in WP, which is why selling the N9 in these areas won;t impact on overall WP handset sales.

Perhaps you could open your mind enought to consider that all these companies you mentioned are retaining WP hadsets for product diversification? Wow. what a novel idea!

Furthermore, perhps you should also have a look at all the "announcements" made by the various CEO's and the subsequent reversals....

Elop indicated that they would not be releasing any more Meego devices, and yet previously stated they would retain it for "future disruptions" and yet as for the " no more Meego" devices, was he referring to Harmattan "Meego" or "real" meego?
If I remember correctly, LG publicly announced their GW-990 and stated they would be the releasing it, only to shelf it at the last minute and they actually had working Moblin handsets for people to play with prior to the 180.
These people talk as much shiiite as many here on TMO and all for a multitude of reasons, not withstanding outright hypocracy, including diversion and an overinflated sense of their own control, of their companies, regardless of a board that could sack their azzes in a heartbeat.

If anyone believes for a minute that Nokia isn't keeping something back, they need to go and have a good hard look at the fine print surrounding their "future Product" announcement.

Regardless of what Elop says, if WP fails, nokia will have something else, including a new CEO.

as for Ballmer, of course he wouldn;t be making comments like that to possibly scare off Nokia investors, lowering share price and making it easier for MS to buy would he?

Get with the program, develop a bit of situational awareness and most of all, stop blindly swallowing the rubbish put out by tech blogs and gadget sites that dare to pretend that their "columnists" are actually journalists.

Have a nice day