Ehh, isn't this one of the minor difficulties with Symbian, ie the kernel would have to be rewritten to be able to use multi-core CPUs? And the big thing for Nokia is that Nokia clearly hasn't been capable to develop Symbian fast enough to keep up with the competition. I've got the impression that Nokia has realized that they can't afford to goof around any longer and that something radical had to be done.

And in addition, Symbian is dead on the US market regardless of how Nokia would have been able to develop it simply because a couple of American bloggers have declared that Symbian is **** because Symbian <> iOS and mainstream media ( and therefore the majority of potentional customers ) accepts this as gospel ...

Personally I think that one of Nokia's biggest errors was to try to turn Symbian into an Open Source project, they lost a lot of momentum (and even more critically, time) when that failed. All Open Source projects aren't successes and the Symbian thingy was clearly a failure.

And all of you who wish that Vanjoki would have been appointed CEO, keep in mind that regardless of his ability to perform, he actually was responsibile for the major areas where Nokia's smartphones have failed to keep up with the competition. The numbers don't lie.

I don't claim that I like current devlopements , but at least Nokia is trying to shake up itself.

I don't like what probably will be the fate of MeeGo but at the same time one has to be realistic, a MeeGo based phone would be more of an überphone than a phone for the joggingdresspeople and the joggingdresspeople are numerous and do buy a lot of phones, and wp7 is aimed at the joggingdresspeople ....