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Nokia to Switch to Windows Phone 7 OS?
By Mike Browne on May 21,
 2010 at 00:00,

Nokia to Switch to Windows Phone 7 OS? Yeah, and we're all moving to live on the Moon and be called 'Wild Flower'! Come on, just because it's been a rather slow news week around Nokia Towers of late, is this the best analysts can come up with? Read on to find out why Nokia may or may not be switching to Windows Phone 7 OS....

We know to take analyst predictions with a hefty pinch of salt some times but the latest musings from one seems to be a little out-of-this-world. Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Rodman & Renshaw, has suggested that Nokia may have to turn to Windows Phone 7 as their next generation smartphone OS of choice. The reasoning being “the odds are stacked against the survival of Symbian.”

Newer operating systems may have been gathering pace of late but that's what happens in developing markets. Even if you combine Symbian's three closest rivals, it still outsells them!

Phil wrote a cracking piece the other day about how Symbian sells over 260,000 devices a day, yup, a day! Now, that's hardly failing in my book. The buzz around the Nokia N8 and the arrival of Symbian^3 is only just getting warmed up and then we have Symbian^4 to look forward to, so why would Nokia need to switch to a completely different infrastructure?

At least the analyst calls the idea of switching to Windows Phone 7 something of a “a wild card”, which is something akin to saying something whacky and seeing who bites!

So what do you think, is Nokia likely to switch to Windows Phone 7 and should I be getting my 'Wild Flower' nameplate made up? Let us know what you think about the idea in the Comments below.

Via: WM Power User

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  • mjoa

    Nokia will only consider platforms that support Qt in the future. I don’t think that’s the case for M$ phone OS. Qt is the reason why Symbian starts to make sense again (every coder knows Symbian C++ is horrible).

  • Symbian and Qt are great

    Nokia’s alliances with Microsoft and now Yahoo make good strategic sense…but dumping Symbian for Windows Phone 7 makes no sense at all. Whoever is propagating this rediculous rumour may be suffering from a mental condition and should seek help.

  • Vlatko

    Nokia/Symbian is a toast and the know that. Symbian is more or less some sort of a Brew ( low end semi-smart OS, very user unfriendly). Yes there are 260K devices , but do people buy them because of Symbian? No , they buy then because they are cheap and because at this moment Nokia brand is still cool in Asia and Afrika and Europe. But the fashion changes, tomorrow maybe HTC will be “cool” brand, and Chinese will make a damn cheap phones very soon.
    Symbian will remain Nr 1 OS in the next 5 years, but mainly because there are 100 euro Symbian phones in the shop.

  • http://www.cagloo.com Pareen Vatani

    Thats very good . Nokia is making good phones but internally all of them appear same with boring OS . Windows phone 7 will definately given nokia new wings.

    Its time for nokia to give up symbian and move on to windows phone 7.

  • mjoa

    When people complain about Symbian it’s the UI they complain about.. What you fail to see here, Vlatko, is that it’s like saying linux is bad because you don’t like Gnome. With the UI fixed in S^3 and S^4 and the coding tools being Qt instead of Symbian C++ (for both Symbian and MeeGo!), it’s a whole another beast. And from what I’ve heard, Symbian is the best platform when it comes to battery life, energy saving and lightness. With Symbian and MeeGo, Nokia has no use for M$; that’s what I hope.

  • REVGREEN

    hahaha, what a difference a year makes , and Nokia spent a billion dollars last year on the sysmbian os , what a way to piss money up the wall