Nokia to use Window mobile 7

[Jason Shaw]

Nokia has one handset with Meego on it, the Nokia N9.  I have one and love
it.  It's super responsive, a nice UI that makes sense and has all the apps
I need on it.  Underneath it all is Debian.  No carriers in North America
have it, so I ordered it from Europe, but it is set up for pentaband GSM,
so it should work on any GSM network.  On Rogers, for data, I'm almost
always connected at "3.5G" speeds, which is Meego's way of saying HSDPA.

The N9 has been remarkably well received, and you can even dual boot
Android 4 on it, which runs like a dream.

http://swipe.nokia.com/

-jason

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Ori Idan <ori-RdxWQVHs3mjDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Nokia had the N900 which they discontinued, it ran GNU/Linux (based on
> debian if I am not mistaken) they also developed with Intel another
> distribution which they called Meego but to my knowledge did not sell any
> phone with that system since at that time they signed the agreement with MS.
> So if they did not sign with MS they would probably make some GNU/Linux
> based phones.
>
> --
> Ori Idan
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Ted <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> If they didn't go with Win7/8 they would already probably be dead (if
>> went with Android), so its relative. Nokia blew it years ago. They may
>>  have bottomed out
>> now, and advance on Win7/8 mobile going forward. They got caught snoozing
>> starting in around 2005-2006 time frame.
>> I have a Win phone, and android. Haven't used the Win phone as a phone at
>> all, my sim goes into my Android, I got the Win7 phone as a new signup to
>> bell,
>> and already had my HTC Desire HD. I think the Win7 phone may have a
>> slight advantage to very non-tech people (i.e. grandparents), but that's
>> about it, but
>> i haven't installed the new upgrade yet. Win 7 is on my HTC 7, basically
>> same phone as desire HD, and the Win7 is a bit flashier with some
>> animations,etc.
>> Nokia has to hope there is demand for WinPhone with MS new 8, if not,
>> then they are in extra big trouble. If they had of gone with Android they
>> would have competed with Samsung, and started to late, and their stock
>> would have been bailed on even more by now, so they definitely had only the
>> one choice to make, go with MS. Decided on Android back when Samsung did
>> (or prior), then different story.
>>
>> -tl
>>
>>
>> On 06/16/2012 03:58 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yep, what seemed like a bad idea looks to be playing out badly.
>>>
>>> Curiously, anyone I have heard that used Windows Mobile seem to like it
>>> quite well, though not necessarily to the point of being prepared to pay
>>> ANY price to get it.
>>>
>>> The other curious observation I hear is that the "market" would like
>>> there to be a third alternative to iOS and Android, so there is reason for
>>> mobile carriers to want either WinMo or latest RIM to survive, though they
>>> wouldn't much care which, and they'd prefer to only need to spend anything
>>> supporting one, so one of them should win and the other fail quickly and
>>> ease that support choice :-).
>>>
>>>
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