Thread: Will Nokia adopt Android or Windows?

Looks like a case of good business sense, but which operating system will they adopt for their smart phones?

For Nokia, smartphones now represent around 50 percent of Devices &Services (D&S) revenue, and with continued share loss accompanied with pricing pressure, analysts expect this to significantly affect Nokia's ability to grow revenues in its handset business.
"Persisting with the Symbian OS going forward could result in Nokia's smartphone share declining to as low as 23 percent by 2013," Credit Suisse analyst Kulbinder Garcha wrote in a note to clients.

Article here.

I believe they're going with Meego.

Well there's a turn up for the books:

• Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
• Nokia will help drive and define the future of Windows Phone. Nokia will contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments and geographies.
• Nokia and Microsoft will closely collaborate on development, joint marketing initiatives and a shared development roadmap to align on the future evolution of mobile products.
• Bing will power Nokia’s search services across Nokia devices and services, giving customers access to Bing’s next generation search capabilities. Microsoft adCenter will provide search advertising services on Nokia’s line of devices and services.
• Nokia Maps will be a core part of Microsoft’s mapping services. For example, Maps would be integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter advertising platform to form a unique local search and advertising experience.
• Nokia’s extensive operator billing agreements will make it easier for consumers to purchase Nokia Windows Phone services in countries where credit-card use is low.
• Microsoft development tools will be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem’s global reach.
• Microsoft will continue to invest in the development of Windows Phone and cloud services so customers can do more with their phone, across their work and personal lives.
• Nokia’s content and application store will be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace for a more compelling consumer experience.

I really do try to follow Nokia as they have some great hardware. I am lost with this week's Windows announcement and their collaborative effort to bring down Google and Apple (LOL). To me that's like Singapore & Indonesia conspiring and announcing they plan to bring down China and the US...

Regardless the hard part I am trying to follow is they claim the closure of Symbian in the very near future....Does that include the S^3 ??? It seems they have dumped so much time and resources into the newest iteration and almost a waste to quit now. Is that what is happening, are they going 100% Windows, seriously?

Bottom line is Nokia need a smartphone platform and Microsoft needs some smartphone customers.

It's probably the best bet for both of them.

I agree, it's better than both companies continuing the way they have been. Competition is always good for the consumer.

Nokia are also very good in the enterprise market, so it also helps them stave off Blackberry.

I wonder how much it would cost to buy Nokia now?

Back at MWC 2011 Nokia suddenly announced that it would be making a partnership with Microsoft to use Windows Phone on Nokia smartphones. The move was very odd considering that reports claim Intel, Nokia's partner for MeeGo OS, was only notified the night before the announcement. The move left many people wondering what Nokia was thinking since Android is much more popular on the market today.The motives behind Nokia's choice for Windows Phone on its smartphones are becoming clearer today with Bloomberg reporting that sources are saying that Microsoft has agreed to pay Nokia a cool $1 billion to use its mobile OS rather than go with Android. Nokia's new CEO Stephen Elop, who is a former Microsoft exec, claimed the movie was due to the fact that Nokia feared it wouldn’t be able to differentiate itself from all of the other players in the Android market today.
The fact that Google wasn't offering a billion to use Android undoubtedly had something to do with the decision. Nokia will pay Microsoft for each copy of Windows Phone that it will use. These same sources claim that the contract between Microsoft and Nokia will run for five years. I can’t help but think this is a very bad move for Nokia. It might get a billion dollars from Microsoft, but Windows Phone is nowhere near as popular as Android or the iPhone making it an also ran with little traction compared to other major OS on the market today.
I also have to wonder if shareholders will be happy with the move considering stock prices at Nokia have continued to slip since the partnership with Microsoft was announced. The decline is stock price is significant with Bloomberg reporting that stock prices have dropped a whopping 26% since the announcement on February 11. That is 26% in less than a month. One of the sources claims that the $1 billion was to keep Nokia from going with Android and many though Android was where Nokia was leaning. I have to wonder if this move will eventually be the undoing of Nokia, which is already on very shaky ground in the high-end smartphone business. The next version of Windows Phone had better be really, really good.