Comments on: Nokia CEO blasts rivals as “hedging” on smartphone strategy

By: Carlo Broglia

Carlo Broglia — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:00 +0000

Another thing that works well with Symbian/Android: plug in a USB cable and instantly copy files to/from the computer.
Windows Phone? No sir, need to install Zune first. What if I don’t want to install Zune? Or if the computer is running Linux?

By: Carlo Broglia

Carlo Broglia — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:24:00 +0000

I am sure all the developers that develop for Nokia would agree. First C++ Symbian, then QT, QML, then throw all away for developing on Windows Phone (that, by the way, did not sell before and does not sell now with Nokia).
And on the lower end, now instead of J2ME on Series 40, another OS change. I do not understand how Elop can be take seriously.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:25:00 +0000

The ass clown Elop is gambling the company on an OS with about 1% market share and has the audacity to complain about other phone manufacturers. It never cease to amaze what peoples that become CEOs of multi billion dollar companies.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:11:00 +0000

Cool story bro, too bad it has absolutely nothing to do with the article.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:37:00 +0000

Mr Elop was more bothered about helping Microsoft instead of Improving Nokia,Nokia an Windows does not seem to be a good relationship at All,Symbian an Windows are not close at All,Symbian an Android are about the same software,because all you could do with a Nokia Symbian phone you can with a Android phone,people always like to Bluetooth sending an recieving between phones but with Windows you can not do that,an people like using micro sd cards in phones but not able to do that with Windows,so i left Nokia for the Samsung Galaxy S2 because of Mr Elops bad choice of picking Windows after being Loyal to Nokia for ages,but Mr Elop is just downgrading Nokia since he stepped in

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Evo old now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:22:00 +0000

I’m not a Microsoft Fan but I tried a Windows Phone and to my surprise the phone was Nice, really nice, before bashing MS try One, there’s more than enough reasons to Slap MS and Balmer, this is not one, I’ve had a Evo going on 2 years and I like the phone but compared to IOS and WinPhone it’s a Mutt.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000

Smart people hedge. Dumb people gamble. Crooked people steal. You decide which category Elop falls in.

I can’t believe that Nokia shareholders are ok with Elop after he gave everything away and still flopped in Europe. Did you know they gave their mobile patents to MS AND committed their entire company to WP7 AND laid software people off AND only got a couple billion in return? Moto was worth $12bil for patents, and Nokia has better patents. He might have doubled that if he had just left the cell phone market immediately, instead of this disastrously one-sided partnership.

His statements aren’t even true. It’s not the best Nokia could do, because MS wouldn’t even change their hardware requirements for Nokia. None of the WP7 phones use the latest hardware, because MS is behind on their OS.

By: willitcome

willitcome — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:17:00 +0000

LG tried this and they lost with wp7

By: willitcome

willitcome — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:15:00 +0000

Elop is a Joke. I think the LUMIA is Fail. Lumia 710 is selling nothing

By: Esa Edvik

Esa Edvik — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:04:00 +0000

Utter bullshit. Nokia themselves are using many different platforms even as we speak and failing on all fronts. This is the one they’re betting on now naturally with Microsoft’s hefty support, but you won’t be seeing any cheap WP7 phones any time soon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:04:00 +0000

Smacks of desperation, especially since his two flagship WP7 devices are a ripoff of the MeeGo phone design.

Elop…pfff…whatever.

BTW, I guess MS is hedging their bet by having more than one manufacturer, eh?