Nokia to use Window mobile 7

[Fabio FZero]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 14:24, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> I may be missing something, but is there a chance of this working out?

Actually, yes. Let's put the prejudice against MS aside for a while:
have you guys seen Windows Phone 7 UI?

I have. I'm surprised to be saying this, but it's honestly the
absolute BEST user experience in mobile devices ever. Period. Neither
Android nor the iPhone have anything nearly as good.

It's actually so good that some elements of the Win7Phone UI are
slowly being incorporated by some programmers into iPhone and Android
apps. Scary, huh?

The problem is that the previous Windows Mobile was so bad that it's
going to take some work for it to be taken seriously, but with it
could work with some serious hardware behind it.

I was hoping Nokia would choose Android, but I knew the chances were slim.

>  I mean, the whole engineering culture between the two firms is really
> different.  I see a lot of Nokia developers not staying long with that
> company, but I could be wrong.

The problem is that Symbian absolutely sucks by today's standards (and
has sucked for a good, long while) and Maemo never really became
anything comparable to Android/iOS. To make things worse, MeeGo took
to long to be released and it's basically being scrapped too.

I know people that work both on Nokia and Intel. The Nokia guys had an
attitude that can be summed up as "LALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING!" when
you tried to discuss the shortcomings of their platforms. Intel, on
the other hand, really doesn't understand anything outside hardware. I
can't understand why they got involved with MeeGo to begin with.

- FZ
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