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	danramos	2012-06-19 , 08:03
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Originally Posted by Cue

I still believe they would struggle without an already well established handset manufacturer such as Nokia. By Nokia I mean either the independent mobile manufacturer or the subsidiary of MS formerly known as Nokia.

Didn't Microsoft already sell their mobile handset operating systems over the years to other well-established smartphone makers like Palm (like their Treo Windows phones), HP/Compaq (i.e.Jornada/iPAQ), UTStarcom (Thera/PPC), HTC (HTC7 series), and LG and Samsung. At one point they even made their own short-lived handsets a couple of years ago, Microsoft's own Kin! To say MS isn't already established, given they've had all this time, even in hardware manufacturing, seems a little funny to me.

I'm not sure how much more well-established they need to be when Apple, Google and even Symbian took off comparatively faster than Microsoft's foray into mobile. FAR faster.

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