Saturday 11 September 2010

Nokia need to go Android

Nokia N8, with an OS that only its mother could love

I noticed that Nokia have turned to a Microsoft guy to try to revive the company's fortunes in the smart phone stakes. The only way that Stephen Elop can turn Nokia around is to embrace Android. Having spent years demonstrating that they can't develop mobile software, they need to bin Symbian and concentrate on making great phones again. Something they used to be able to do, but seem to have forgotten all about recently.

If they are going to hang onto Symbian, go open. Let the development community rebuild it and make it work. It is the community that makes Apple and Android strong, although in Apple's case it's more like a cult. Nokia need fanboys and fangirls to help it come back.

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