Lumia is the name (an old word) of a prostitute, so the name was very proper for Nokia phones after it agreed to be a slave for Microsoft on the palindromic day 1102-2011.

Now, what would one call a prostitute who has found a steady sugar daddy for herself? From that universe I would seek the new names for the M$WP-phones.

That's a courtesan.

didn't i just say they are bad at commercializing it??? you are just confirming what i said.


i disagree. who understands mobile channel partners better? nokia or microsoft? who understands ARPU better? etc. by microsoft's own admission, they wanted nokia because nokia had all the expertise in this area and microsoft didn't. just because nokia understands it better doesn't mean they executed it better. dig a little and you will remember why nokia died.

my god.......if technical matters is all that matters, the world would be very different!



anyway, we shall see what happens next.

so pureview is owned by microsoft or nokia? and will we see pureview pro on next microsoft lumia?

Nokia will be sitting on close to $20B in cash after this deal. Their telecom infrastructure business is quite strong. They would have no trouble buying Alcatel-Lucent for $5-6B and consolidating the infrastructure business. Markets agree with 35% gain in stock.

Prediction: Nokia acquires Jolla in a year and reenters smart-phone business with Meego!

I dont care in whatever shape i get my jolla in. This abandon ship by nokia might favor them in the long run but its rather sad even so. I just curius in who owns meego harmattan now. They bought current devices or all. Could microsoft release a symbian if they wanted? I want to keep hope alive becouse for what i can see atleast meego swipe beats jollas ui big time. This dont say jollad aint good, just saying n9 still beats everything even today. I use android 4 the monent and hate it bigtime and i aint impresed by either play store apps or ios app store. They only have cooler games. Thats it really.
As i said i dont care who make my jolla phone, i just want it since it remind me of n9 but (hopefully) with better specs.

Nokia n9 is still today the only phone i have capable of more then eight hours heavy use.

All of the patents are still owned by Nokia. The deal was to license Nokia patents to MS for 10 years.
I doubt Nokia would have any reason not to license PureView to MS. I also doubt Nokia's Advanced Technologies part includes Nokia's Tampere R&D team that is responsible of PureView.


Though who knows. I doubt we will get any detailed information on what Advanced Technologies really includes from old Nokia as far as manpower goes, if anything.

What is the market price for jolla? 20 million Euro? Why not buy it, nokia. start from scratch and give sailfish a real chance to make it.

NOKIA is not getting involved into mobile devices any more. Its over. They have no OS and gave the hardware to MS. Their focus will be different and for a good reason. The mobile market has matured to the point where only titans can compete, and minnows like Jolla can hope that titan will swallow them for a good penny. The battle was lost in 2007, the board brought Elop to sell them, he executed well, and the Finns got good cash.

Technically a Trojan, but I'll still think of him as a Worm.