Nokia says Google alliance participation "not ruled out at all"

It may have downplayed the significance of Google's Open Handset Alliance and Android OS yesterday, but it seems that Nokia is singing a slightly different tune today, with Reuters now reporting that the company hasn't completely closed the door on taking part in the alliance. Specifically, Nokia spokesman Kari Tuutti said, "It's not ruled out at all," adding that, "If we would see this as beneficial we would think about taking part in it." Tuutti then went on to say that "We should never close any doors." Of course, that's still a long way from actually jumping on board, which seems to remain a fairly unlikely proposition, "open doors" aside.

[j450n Posted Nov 6th 2007 1:55PM]

Android vs. Maemo

to the death!!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 7:41PM]

For anyone that's confused, you can read that comment as "Well, we really freaking hope that this thing is a big disaster, and if we could do anything to make sure it fails, we would. But, uh, if it's not, then we're going to have to save face and pretend that we're cool with it, so...yeah. Not ruled out."

Personally, I hope the project succeeds, I'm itching to get into indie mobile game development, and I think Android is the path of least resistance if it works out.

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