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	danramos	2011-02-18 , 09:54
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Originally Posted by ericsson

Also remember what happened to the google phone, DOA, people didn,t like it even though it was high end specs and "pure" Android, they would much rather have HTC and Samsung.

Which "pure" Android phone are you talking about that people didn't like? There have been several reference devices that have had the "pure Google experience", if that's what you mean. Like the G1, The Droid, The Nexus 1, the Nexus S and the Xoom. Soooooo... which one is it that the people didn't like? I'm not sure that any of them were disliked. For that matter, the Nexus 1 was made by HTC and the Nexus S was made by Samsung, sooooo... yeeaah... what the hell are you talking about? heh

Originally Posted by stickymick

If things do take a drastic turn it would be a shame to see Nokia go down with those two berks at the controls.

Agreed. Also--you TOTALLY just outed yourself as a Brit by calling them berks.

Most people around the world would have NO idea what that means (or the history of the term). Luckily, I watch IT Crowd and I had to try looking it up. heh.. classic.

Originally Posted by ericsson

I am starting to get fed up with this nonsense.
What planet is this dude living on?

Nokia going WP is hardly mentioned in the news outside the bubbles of the tech media involved in mobile phones. 95% of the current Nokia owners don't care and don't know. Of the 5% that do now, only 5% care.

In less than a year, all the 3-400 millions of Symbian owners (Nokia smartphone owners) will see a better UI on the new Nokia phones. A UI that is smooth, and with services that are equally smoothly integrated. Does it run WP? of course it does. Do the 95% of the current Symbian users care? No. WP, Symbian, MeeGo, Android, it doesn't matter.

First--you're wrong. That Nokia+Microsoft love-in was plastered all over the financial papers (yes, even in the US) and then all over the mainstream press (albeit as small news) and, near as I can tell from walking around the ordinary Luddite mendicants that meander our streets and shopping centers, I can tell you that most of them don't care (I rarely.. RAAARELY see a Nokia device at all anymore) and of the people that I bother to grace with my presence and speech, they appear to be aware of what happened but they were far too happy with their current iPhone, Android, etc. to really "give a f___" about it, since it doesn't concern them.

It would seem, then, that even in the outliers of Nokia's influence, people seem to know about what happened and really don't care. So you're about half-right.. but that also made you half-wrong.

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