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2011-02-20 , 20:52
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Originally Posted by stickymick View Post
Had this thought today.
What about WP7? Is this thing "modular" so to speak, can features be removed or added or is it as it comes?
I can't imagine Nokia releasing phones for the lower end of the market with the same O/S as the smart-phones, because I can't see that hardware features are going to make that much of a difference to price point.
This doesn't matter really. Don't look at the lower end devices. Moore's law eats up low end devices with time. Nokia will need 1-2 years to get first WP7 phones. Unitl then, then-cheap SoC will be able to run WP7. What is more an issue is the fact that WP7 doesn't scale as well upwards as Meego/Maemo did: Smartphones in 1-2 years will have functionalities from iPad and even more complex SW stacks on board (IPv6 etc.). This was no problem with Maemo's "deskop-linux" inside incl. X11, java, etc. With WP7, not even all mobile standards are implemented ...
 

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