Microsoft has little of that after letting Windows Mobile languish for over half a decade.
Glaring problems pointed out in almost every review got ignored as Ballmer didn’t feel the need to spend money on the platform, customers be damned.

I think Nokia still has customer goodwill, from making solid hardware that didn’t fail a lot over the years, putting in good cameras and offering decent support.

But that doesn’t mean people would buy a device with an OS from a company they’ve come to distrust, just to do Nokia a favor… 

Given the results as stated by the slashdot review, Nokia’s programmers have regained enough focus to make Me-goo shine.

Further, Nokia had plenty of other reasons to do the Microsoft deal: Elop, large sums of cash, and the option of having 2 viable operating systems to put on phones. 

With Samsung and HTC, two of the worlds most successful players build phones for more than one platform.

There is absolutely no reason to assume Nokia couldn’t and shouldn’t server customers with different tastes by offering both Me-goo and Windphone. Especially since Windphone market share has gone nowhere so far, 

Nokia’s board of directors would have to be retarded to let Elop put all eggs in one basket, even if he wanted to, which I doubt

Given the results as stated by the slashdot review, Nokia’s programmers have regained enough focus to make Me-goo shine.

Further, Nokia had plenty of other reasons to do the Microsoft deal: Elop, large sums of cash, and the option of having 2 viable operating systems to put on phones. 

With Samsung and HTC, two of the worlds most successful players build phones for more than one platform.

There is absolutely no reason to assume Nokia couldn’t and shouldn’t server customers with different tastes by offering both Me-goo and Windphone. Especially since Windphone market share has gone nowhere so far, 

Nokia’s board of directors would have to be retarded to let Elop put all eggs in one basket, even if he wanted to, which I doubt

I’d like to take part in making that happen, but I’m not suddenly going to buy a lower end phone just to get Me-goo.

If I could get a suitable Rom, I’d install Me-goo on my SGS2 though.  Hell, if Nokia offered Me-goo Rom’s for other phones for cash, I’d buy them  ;-)

I’ve always loved multiboot on my computer. Can’t wait till I can choose my mobile separately from the operating systems I want to run on it..

Of course I’m not one to talk, I’m not dedicated to Android either, I’d switch to Me-goo in a New York second, if Nokia can match Samsung/HTC on hardware.

Least proprietary, least walls and lock-in, no locked boot loaders… What benefits customers is diametrically opposed to what benefits Corporations’ rackets, mostly.

Google’s good point is that they derive their earnings in an area that doesn’t require them to step on my toes or wall me in for it.

As for your comment on the N9′s screen: “as large of a screen as can fit the thing” – thats an optical illusion.  Just like with Apple and anybody else, the screen isn’t even close to being as large as the big black glass you see.

Of course I’m not one to talk, I’m not dedicated to Android either, I’d switch to Me-goo in a New York second, if Nokia can match Samsung/HTC on hardware.

Least proprietary, least walls and lock-in, no locked boot loaders… What benefits customers is diametrically opposed to what benefits Corporations’ rackets, mostly.

Google’s good point is that they derive their earnings in an area that doesn’t require them to step on my toes or wall me in for it.

As for your comment on the N9′s screen: “as large of a screen as can fit the thing” – thats an optical illusion.  Just like with Apple and anybody else, the screen isn’t even close to being as large as the big black glass you see.

Of course I’m not one to talk, I’m not dedicated to Android either, I’d switch to Me-goo in a New York second, if Nokia can match Samsung/HTC on hardware.

Least proprietary, least walls and lock-in, no locked boot loaders… What benefits customers is diametrically opposed to what benefits Corporations’ rackets, mostly.

Google’s good point is that they derive their earnings in an area that doesn’t require them to step on my toes or wall me in for it.

As for your comment on the N9′s screen: “as large of a screen as can fit the thing” – thats an optical illusion.  Just like with Apple and anybody else, the screen isn’t even close to being as large as the big black glass you see.

The whole cloud hype is based on corporations’ hopes to establish tollbooths everywhere.

Now they try to get you to upload your music to the cloud and then stream it back to your phone… how much more retarded can it get?  playback quality will not only be worse, anytime there’s interference or a dark spot, playback will crackle or stop alltogether.  Next thing, mobile networks get overloaded from all that music going back and forth and they’ll raise prices to lighten the load.
win-win, eh?

Sure, backing up your photos and whatever else to dropbox or skydrive is great.  The issue is where do you get to keep your freedom of choice?

I’ll prefer the least proprietary platform available, that wasn’t built with walls in mind and without locked boot loaders.  That’s the only guarantee that intelligent people will be able to connect to anything they want, when they want.

Those lacking the capacity to value and exercise their freedom in the somewhat arcane world of computer software will trust themselves to papa Jobs and pay through the nose to live in his garden, its like a managed living facility.  So far, it doesn’t look like very many want to live in Ballmer’s walled garden… which is encouraging.

Windphone? no thanks, I had M$opoly dominating my desktop long enough, I know how they slack off once they think they got a market sewn up.

You see, its not the apps, its not the features, its that M$ is trying to duplicate Apple’s walled garden. If I wanted to live in a walled garden, I’d buy an iPhone.

But I don’t want to live in anybody’s walled garden, so i use Android for now, where manufacturers don’t lock their boot loaders.  But I would prefer Me-goo over Android.

If there’s continued support for Me-goo and new phones keep getting released that are on par with HTC and Samsung’s hardware, I’ll buy Nokia again.  That simple.

If they try to peddle last year’s hardware in shiny new cases with Windphone on them, I’ll continue to buy elsewhere.

@ Chris Davies: I have NO CLUE why you would want to feel “confident” or any other form of hopeful about Windphone… we’ll automatically see where it goes as time passes.  Confidence toward some future result?  Its not like a smartphone OS will bring you enlightenment or supernatural powers. Is M$ somehow helping you put your kids through school?  That would be a perfectly valid reason for any number of hopes, of course.

As for Hardware:
The case somehow looks like you can’t replace the battery?
No SD card slot? couldn’t find mention of it…
Hope they don’t try to out-Apple Jobs on the negative points of their phones.

I guess since this is called a mid-range phone, you can’t complain, but the rugged Motorola Defy I got for my girlfriend is also midrange and has those (kind of important) features.

It was ONLY Symbian that is to be discontinued.

This will now save Nokia billions from reduced Symbian overhead, WP will allow quick move to market for the mainstream, which will also take the pressure off Meego and allow it to push the envelope in terms of design and usability.

Nokias commitment to Meego is clearly demonstrated with the N9.

To date windows phone and windows is the only platform that can achieve this. They are setting themselves up for a home run.

To date windows phone and windows is the only platform that can achieve this. They are setting themselves up for a home run.

Besides: I am quite aligned with what anaylists say about the Nokia-Microsoft agreement feasibility. My thought goes straight to the thousands of people shed from Nokia to Accenture (which will likely sack them away gradually) and to the thousands that will remain home by the end of this year.So it’s not just about handing over assets to Microsoft, is giving up on research and development, stop investing on people (with great social damage) an rely on someone else’s strategy that has a long background history of monopoly and started doing business usurping technology from others.