Yep I don't intend on trying to save nokia, they want to kill themselves be my guest. I will miss their hardware and I was looking forward to QT development for phones on a Linux platform, it was like gee finally a smartphone platform I already know and can develop on without having to waste time learning. Perfect for someone like me that wants it as a hobby as I don't have the time between family and work to learn a new platform to tinker on for a few hours a week as a hobby.

The board is dumb and doesn't understand the US market. They release phones without CDMA which excludes the #1 and #3 largest of the big 4 carriers then they use a European gsm frequency excluding the #2 largest carrier. So 3G over here with nokia devices only works on t-mobile the #4 carrier... Then they don't play ball with the carriers here and they don't market over here to consumers. In the US nokia is a no name as far as consumers are concerned. 2 of the top cell manufacturing companies LG and Samsung those are to US consumer known brands, they make good tv's, DVD/blueray players, stereo equipment, etc. They have paid their US marketing dues and have established a brand over her and a brand following.

Had nokia corrected the above earlier they would be fine with symbian and meego. Without doing the above they can partner with MS, apple, google, RIM, palm/hp and it won't make a bit of difference here in the US or general north American market. They will die regardless.

The problem with the nokia/MS move is they didn't get anything out of it. They didn't get a double digit marketshare smartphone os. They didn't get an established mobile device platform partner. They didn't get a seasoned tried and true mobile OS. They didn't get a rich thriving mobile application community or ecosystem. They didn't get any of the crap Elop was spouting they would.

They got a 3rd tier mobile device platform name. They got an unfinished mobile OS( meego currently is more feature rich at 1.1 ) MS mobile marketshare ranks slightly above "other". They got possibly the weakest mobile application community ecosystem outside of RIM, worse then what nokia already has by far.

MS got, to kill their competition by assimilation, got all nokias services, got a big foot in the European market and developing country market by virtue of nokias branding. One of the best mobile platform hardware designers and manufacturers.

Nokia got.... Uhhh access to x-box live service, zune service, and bing search engine....

Way to go nokia