I sort of agree. Roughly speaking for the Nordic countries for most people, phones today are iPhones, Androids and Nokia, and Android = Sony Ericsson. iPhones are popular and they are good, but most people who get an iPhone don't do it because it is a smartphone, they couldn't care less. The same goes for Android. Both are smooth and cool, both got apps and that is what counts. The only "real" smartphone left is Nokia, and today that is the E-series. But on overall Nokia is Nokia no matter if it is S40, Symbian^1 or ^3 or S60, a bit clunky as Nokia always has been compared with SE, but built to last and with unsurpassed sound and reception quality.

Stacking WP7 in there will unquestionably be positive. I don't know about the american market, but WP7 in a Nokia anywhere else will be a smash hit. Geeks will love to hate it (but secretly they'd think it's OK), and the average user of high end phones will love it. But I don't see it happening. The N8 is already a smash hit with Symbian, and Symbian^3 is getting better each day, and the same goes for Ovi. Nokia is apparently hiring loads of people to work on MeeGo, and MeeGo (of it turns out only slightly better than Maemo) will also be a smash hit for sure.

The more I think about it the less I understand what Elop is talking about. Catalyzing and joining ecosystems, and Nokia needs to change faster. Nokia needs to continue with Ovi, Symbian, MeeGo and Qt, and they need to execute faster and better. Maybe the whole thing here is that Elop has lost it, or he has never gotten it in the first place. This seems more likely than anything else at the moment.