Comments on: What does Intel-Nokia deal mean for Symbian?

The deal will create a new way for Nokia to fight competition in the smartphone market by focusing on a Linux strategy as a strong alternative to the Symbian OS that Nokia is using today.

[slickuser]

symbian who?

[kool_skatkat]

It seems ARM based processors are doing well and ARM based phones are hot (iPhone, etc..). Intel and Nokia need each other. The only problem I see is too many project at the same time and none in Nokia's strength; the midrange phones?

[elllroy]

what a mess. and "the futurist" clearly lives in denial.

[jasonlackey]

Anyone who has used Nokia's latest flagship offering, the N97, will know that Symbian S60 is a bit of a problem for Nokia right now. Like a GM car from the 1980s, sure it is familiar to most of the customer base, but it is also increasingly long in the tooth. Clearly they need to do something here and folks at Nokia I have spoken to seem to agree. What is not clear is that Moblin and Maemo would be the sure and certain paths to success.

One of the challenges of mobile is that the market is much more fragmented than the PC market, particularly for develepers. Part of Apple's success has been the fact that they deliver a critical mass to their developers as well as a killer appstore where apps can be both found and sold.

Nokia has had advantages of scale, but it seems unlikely that adding a couple platforms will help leverage those advantages. Indeed, it seems likely that the advantage of size could end up being thrown away through fragmentation, leaving iPhone and Android in a far stronger position.

The outside the box solution would have been to take that beautiful Nokia hardware and run Android on it. I also imagine that the various new formfactor Intel widgets and devices would probably be pretty cool with Android as well....

[BadLikeYaas]

It can't hurt Nokia to experiment with an Andriod phone....

[rahulnischal]

well Andriod is no where near to make any big leap as of now
Iphone for sure will be another Mac . So need to wait and watch who will be winning the game in the wireless world. Its not about phone at the end its about who will win the war in wireless computing not mobile phone. it might be any new company or nokia or even PC biggies .................