Nokia and Microsoft to announce an "alliance" tomorrow -- what? Update: Office on Nokia phones
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 11th 2009 6:59PM
posted August 11th 2009 6:59PM
Update: This is probably unrelated, but Microsoft's Mac BU just called its own presser for Thursday, so if you're looking to spend the night weaving wild nonsensical conspiracy theories, we'd say all the pieces are in place.
Update 2: Told you it was nothing too out there -- the Wall Street Journal says Microsoft will announce it's working on a version of Office for Nokia phones. Anyone surprised? Didn't think so.
Thank YOU JESUS
i want my zune phone!
"i want my zune phone!"
LOL!
Zune Phone == Tard Phone
Microsoft = Software
Nokia = Hardware
zPhone realized
If anything close comes out of it, I just my find myself out of HTC's arms and at Nokia's front door.
@yoyodyne
Why because your Iphone is a smartphone? Lol.
Aren't tard phones just those mactards' phones?
Microtards.
Mmm...yummy!!!
.
@yes,
the same tard.
micro-sized.
Scene: Four people sitting around a resteraunt patio having drinks.
Person 1: Hey, look I got my iPhone today. Love how smooth it scrolls.
Others: Wow, cool.
Person 2: Hey, look I got my Android phone today. Google Voice is amazing.
Others: Wow, cool.
Person 3: Hey, look I got my Palm Pre today. I like the interface much better than the iPhone's.
Others: Wow, cool
Tard: Hey, look I got my Zune Phone today.
Others: -awkward silence-
*crickets*
Second update killed everyone who wanted a zune phone and thought this was it. Maybe next time but it would be nice, oh well.
Scene: Four people sitting around a resteraunt patio having drinks.
Person 1: Hey, look I got my iPhone today. Love how smooth it scrolls.
Others: Wow, cool.
Person 2: Hey, look I got my Android phone today. Google Voice is amazing.
Others: Wow, cool.
Person 3: Hey, look I got my Palm Pre today. I like the interface much better than the iPhone's.
Others: Wow, cool
Person 4: Hey, look I got my Zune Phone today.
Others: Gawk in silence and drools over the screen resolution while putting all the other phones in pocket.
"Anyone surprised?"
*crickets*
Wow yoyodyne, did you come up with that yourself? You should forward it to Lorne Michaels.
I'd like the brown one, please.
ZuneHD Phone? by nokia?
New joint venture like SE? NoWin.
As lousy as Symbian is, WinMo is a step down.
It was nice knowin' ya, Nokia. Hope you keep your dumbphone business swift, you'll need it.
No Mobile OS is as robust, as flexible, as capable, or as mature as WinMo at the moment.
Name me one thing that Symbian can do that WinMo can't.
WinMo's downside is perhaps that it supports too many devices that are not fit to properly run it.
Case on point, Apple's iPhone struggles to multi-task to this day with its doubled RAM capacity (in spite of whatever excuses Apple gives), and in the case of the 3G (sans s), you could actually feel it chug and lag when forced to juggle a couple of first-party apps on its 128 MB whereas WinMo phones have been juggling multiple apps with as little as 64MB.
Nevertheless, with stricter hardware requirements for WM7, the day shall soon come when people will stop incessantly hyperbolizing the performance issues of WM and WM devices.
Be intuitive on a non-touch screen based device? Not run slow as hell? Run on reasonable hardware? Must I keep going?
S60 makes a fool out of WinMo. Why don't you tell me one reason why WinMo is better than 60?
Wide-spread?
Nokia's strategy is so bad that it has put them in first place as mobile phone leaders...oh wait...
Both Windows mobile 6xxx and S40/S60/S80/S-whatever should be put in the ground. If Nokia doesn't want to go Android, then they need to make Maemo 5 a Phone OS.
Quix,
MS fans don't loathe WinMo.
If they did, WinMo phones wouldn't have outsold iPhones (or Android phones) in 2007, 2008, and thus far in 2009.
We may despise some of the hardware choices that go into WinMo phones, such as HTC's insistence on sticking with the same 528 MHz Qualcomm chips they've used in 3 generation of phones now and without forking over the extra dough to enable its 3D drivers, but, we do not loathe MS's Mobile OS.
In fact, a skinned WM (with TF3D/TF3D2/TouchWiz/Mobile Shell 3) or even a native WM 6.5 is just as slick as an iPhone or whatever other phone du jour.
Capabilities wise, WinMo plays second fiddle to none.
As I've said before in the past, if you want to blame WinMo (MS) for something, blame it for supporting too many devices without a higher level of min requirements.
Nokia comes with music coming to winmo phones? lol
Yeah, better yet that Nokia is providing the back-end tech for the Zune HD Phone.
That's what I was thinking...
"Otherwise, hell -- Nokia would be supporting three different mobile OSs, and that seems just a little too crazy, even for Espoo."
As opposed to SE, who are launching 3 new devices with 3 different mobile OSs in the near future.
This reminds of The Fellowship Of the Ring
"Otherwise, hell -- Nokia would be supporting three different mobile OSs"
s40, s60 and Maemo. They already have three ;)
That looks horrific, the phone from my nightmares!
Microsoft definite is step up the game, first ally with yahoo and now nokia.
For the first time in a long time, Microsoft is very much on the defensive (not counting monopoly commissions......), ditto for Nokia. Nokia is producing some great phones but they have not captured the imagination or the sales momentum compared with Apple. The same is true for Motorola and Sony-Ericsson. WinMo has also dropped behind the curve compared with RIM.
WinMo has been on "nokias" for ages now . I believe engadget calls them KIRF's.
nokia is better off using zune and windows services anyways
anywho i totally had this premonition the other day.
i thought, how do you get a phone on the zune?
let some mobile company suppport the phone features.
bada bing, is this the big answer?
it's all fitting into place.
Microsoft has a lot of new ally (yahoo and nokia) while google and apple no longer in ally which only benefit microsoft.
So i'll just side with Axis rite?
btw - they are dumping Zymbian (yes, I know symbian).... it doesn't work with anything outside its box, anyway...
Is this a Jim/Dwight kinda alliance?
Say wha now?
Empires strike back baby!
...and strikes back the empire lol.
Windows Live services?
inb4appleshitsthemselves
Or may be Silverlight support in Nokia's Symbian devices? My head goes ringing in that direction......
Hasbeen, meet Hasbeen.
Has-been meet Has-been?
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They've both seen better days but
* WinMo is still an awesome platform
* Nokia still makes great hardware
* Microsoft has zillions to sink in R&D
* both companies want to regain their lost marketshare....
should be cool.
S40, S60(SF) and Maemo coming to take the high end with fremantel( maemo 5) and harmattan later... so if this announcement got something to do with OS it will be about Nokias netbooks.
I mean they bought world dominant mobile OS last year turned it open, doubled their workforce for Maemo and made new division called Maemo Devices, bought trolltech for 400 million that's about xplatform, turning symbian for full Qt support and same for maemo... and now they would start making phones with OS that got about 10% of smartphone marke and Nokia got no experience with it and don't have the Qt pridge they are building for Maemo and future Symbian Foundatin OS. Just wont happen.
Two evils teaming up togther. Oh crap. End of the world.
...by 2012. ish.
At the moment they seem like the good guys compared to Apple...