
It's official. Dismissed as a silly rumour by many, Nokia and Micorsoft have just announced a very comprehensive partnership
in which Windows Phone 7 will become Nokia's prime smartphone platform. It goes a lot deeper than that, though.
Update: Qt will not be available for Windows Phone 7. Qt will remain the development platform for MeeGo and Symbian.
Update II: During its Capital Market Day event, Elop confirmed Nokia will not make a comprehensive MeeGo product line. It will be a platform to learn from, but it won't become a competitive platform.
Update III: Android was not an option because it would be difficult to differentiate there.
Update IV: There will be 'substantial reductions in employment' in Finland and around the world. Also, before I forget, thanks Engadget
for the live-blogging where I get this stuff from!
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2008-09-03
I for one welcome our Microsoft overlords.
I have been drooling over the N8 for a while as a good camera is important to me.
I want to get rid of my iPhone and move to WP7 but don't think the hardware is what I am looking for at the moment.
We don't know the terms of the agreement with Nokia, what has MS given to Nokia to get them to agree to this. I somehow doubt there is this big conspiracy that Elop had agreed this with MS before he moved.
This will have had to get past the Nokia board. I would think they had some good terms and a bit of clout in how they do things on their phones.
I would hope Nokia are also getting a cut of the apps sold.
I hope we see a new model soon.