sorry for such a confusing post I made

Everything I am trying to say is based off speculation. I see 2 big companies collaborating on different projects and imagine that more things are talked about then what is revealed to the public.

I think businesses explore every avenue for profit and given the fact that Winmo phones dropped in popularity due to competition. How could MS pass up asking the world's largest phone maker to make a Winmo phone ?

We've seen more announcements for android than winmo lately, they have to be trying to garner support.

Nokia of course(if it happened) refused MS but Nokia released a windows 7 netbook that was late to the game seems odd to me.


Doesn't a dual boot maemo/win7 netbook make more sense ? The leading brands of netbooks have already been established, unless they had some radical hardware changeup or feature which it doesn't one has to wonder under what expectations was it released. To me this hints at MS's influence for them to launch this device.

Maybe they were tempted by sweet office mobile deals or something. With all the speculation of apple launching tablets and the subsequent announcements of other tablets and etc. Doesn't a nice 5 or 7 inch(or both or bigger) mainstream maemo tablet(dual boot win7)sound better ? This would have allowed them to attract those who otherwise would not be attracted to maemo along with riding the win 7 wave. So why just launch a plain netbook with a big battery ?

So given this we can say ms and nokia has some type of working relationship. And if Nokia continues to lose smartshare they might turn to this relationship to launch some products. But with HTC there whose to say what might happen.

Again this is all my speculation but to me still falls within the realm of possibilities. Largely because of how the n97 was handled it was well designed though underpowered and the software ui needed work. Then nokia releases a update for the 5800 making the chip the same speed as the n97. This disappointed many people who felt they needed more from a "flagship" device.

I think this creates a situation or rather pressure for a hit, surely the n900 attract in some people new to both nokia and maemo. First impressions stick, supporting a device matters, actively developing for it alongside the community is what will put customers at ease and increase sales.

I think it's required for the n900 to reach it's potential and that it MUST reach that potential in order to be viewed as a success. Otherwise outside this community it'll be pointed to and hinted at as another disappointment and that nokia falls short even with a wonderful device and platform.

Anything viewed as a failure will be treated as one and people will stay away, how will the n910 be recieved ? As "another hyped product" ? And Nokia will shrink possibly enough to be bought out.

A good example of this is archos they make a line of pvr/pmp players that otherwise would sell crazy but they destroyed their rep and then they released the archos 5 internet tablet and the archos 9 pctablet to little fanfare..