Bah, people are holding out saying that this is a hoax, that WP7 isn't the future (it was never mentioned btw) to whatever... simple and plain, deal with the possibility that ultimately Nokia is in need of turning their ship around a whole lot more quickly than they have been trying to do so far.

MeeGo still isn't ready to ship. It's built upon Maemo, which has been out since the 770. The fact that Maemo started and stopped so many times is nobody's fault than Nokia. Heck, Moblin has been around for a while as well. The shifts, the decisions, the lack of a deliverable are all indicative of pieces of this situation being more true than false.

Symbian being a great seller? From the lower priced categories to the higher priced categories, it's finding itself being stranded more and more in the middle with no desktop software that people actually look forward to using. OVI Suite is horrible. To say that it's improved is much akin to saying that it should have been where it is at now 2+ years ago.

Comes with Music... that's been discontinued. It wasn't exactly a blockbuster. NGage? Also discontinued... twice. LifeBlog? Never got the push earlier when it was a pioneer, it's too late now.

So what desktop client to phone type of integration is there? What phone services do they have in place that people scream out for?

And what phone OS does Nokia possess that's out, touchable and purchasable in a final form do they have that people place above others or use in comparisons? None really.

MeeGo is a "should have, could have, would have" just like Maemo. Maemo was a true innovation that Nokia just never capitalized on somehow. The world caught up to their 770's and N810's... and by the time the N900 came out, the world was already talking about what's next. And yet, Nokia has produced nothing next other than shown that it's the safe haven for emulators, NITDroid and people that just love hacking stuff because they can.

Which is cool. But that group doesn't equate to even enough to keep Nokia afloat.

Mass-marketed devices, while shunned by this group here, grow a company. And that's not the case with anything that's Nokia done outside of the 5800 - as far as I'd probably admit, Nokia's last blockbuster phone.

But is it the end of Nokia? Not by a long shot. One of the biggest and best patent holders out there. And it's not like innovation escaped Nokia, it's just not being implemented at the moment.

And that's what I read. Nokia is in a bind, time to do what they do best.

And do it fast.