At MWC Nokia’s first priority – ‘is beating Android’?

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, keynote, microsoft, MWC, mwc2011, Nokia, stephen elop, StephenElop, windows phone, WindowsPhon

You’ve probably all heard about the partnership announced by Nokia and Microsoft earlier this week, and maybe even all the hysteria over at Nokia dumping MeeGo and Symbian for WP7. ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’, should have been the title of Nokia’s event at MWC earlier today, because this is definitely the time for Nokia to do or die.

That being said, Stephen Elop making the statement “first priority is beating Android” is pretty gutsy considering how much market they’ve already lost to Android over 2010 as we reported here. Thing is though, how exactly does Stephen Elop plan on taking down Android? I don’t see Windows Phone 7 showing numbers that even remotely suggest that OS gaining ground on Android, not even close.

With Nokia losing ground constantly, and partnering with a weak selling mobile OS like WP7, i don’t know…2 wrongs don’t make a right…do they?

[via Engadget]

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Comments

Josh

Two wrongs don’t make a right AND two turkeys don’t make an eagle.
curse

Good luck Nokia! I used to like your phones, but as a long time Linux user, I’ll never buy a Windows phone(nor an iOS phone).
Quite odd that they went with Microsoft since their 2 last “smartphone” OS, MeeGo and Maemo was both Open Source and Linux based.
Howard

@curse: I was telling a friend the same thing. Nokia was pushing Open Source and then they pick a closed source platform to “beat Android”.

I long thought they ought drop Symbian, pick up Android and make a custom version, with great hardware, to knock the socks off of the other Android heavies. With Nokia as a partner Android would benefit immensely, and Nokia would have a huge incentive to innovate so they can differentiate from other Android devices.

Is no one else surprised that the near death Motorola can pick up Android and literally revive itself in a year, and Samsung can finally break into the North American market with Android, while the once powerful Sony-Ericsson and Nokia are like lame ducks?
curse

@Howard
Well, SonyEricsson at least have Android phones, and even if they screwed their customers over the X10 and X8 lines with no updates after 2.1, many will get the “Playstation Phone”
Mark

I don’t see why everyone is so surprised. Their new CEO is like the 8th largest MS shareholder, of course he wants nokia to use windows phone 7 on all their devices.
The_Omega_Man

And if you can’t beat um? You should have joined um!
http://www.twitter.com/irishgeek IrishGeek

Perhaps if they gave Nokia built Windows Phone 7 phones to people for free without a contact so they could throw it away after a few weeks, the two-headhed turkey might fly.
curse

@Mark
That I didn’t know, it sure explains a few things.
Richard Lilley

Even Nokia thinks a major shareholder in MS can even catch up to Android let alone beat it, then they are deluded. While W7 may be good software, it’s too little, too late. The world doesn’t need another phone OS, right now. (we could use lower rates though).
To paraphrase Julia Roberts in the movie, “Pretty Woman”, “Big mistake, Big BIIIIG mistake”!!

I’ve used Nokia phones (way back when), and I liked them at the time, the quality was good etc., but they are living in the last century.
Time to wake up and smell the coffee!
Until something better comes along (and I can’t even imagine what that would be), Android rules!