Comments on: Intel, Nokia announce mobile pact

The two companies create a wide-ranging deal covering chips and software for mobile devices.

[mike_roche]

major news or just a formality?

[manojlds]

Seems like Nokia might ditch Symbian for Linux sooner than many had speculated. Eventhough am a Symbian fan, I feel that Nokia has to move ahead with Linux, as Symbian just doesnt seem to be as capable as Android or the iPhone's OS X. Unless Symbian comes up with something really good, Nokia has to ditch it. There is hope though. The Symbian foundation might change it all.

[Mr. Dee]

I don't see what the big deal is here. Yes, Nokia is getting into the market at a good time. They might use their software expertise to their advantage and competition is good. What else is there really to talk about or create a news conference for? Stop creating a hole in the ozone layer and send out an electronic press release.

[Synthmeister]

Yes, I wonder what the Symbian foundation makes of this announcement? Seems like Nokia is pursuing a very fragmented Mobile OS strategy. Aren't 200 different cell phone models enough fragmentation for them?

[ajweidne]

History has a way of repeating itself. In the last 90's, Intel designed a x86 based chip specifically for a new Nokia phone. I think it was called the 8300 and may have been the first real "Smartphone". Probably ahead of it's time. This time it's probably a little late.

[Ingotian]

Two key battles. First Intel with x86 vs ARM, second Nokia vs I-phone and G-phone. An intel-Nokia alliance gives Intel a chance of stopping the ARM becoming the de facto standard of the Smartphone space and Nokia have the mobile phone market share and desperately need something as Unix attacks Symbian. It's rather like micros in the early 80s. There were many but eventually a hardware open architecture prevailed, not because it was best but because IBM was behind it and it let many people build clones. Logically if that repeats itself the G-phone should win out and I'm sure that is not lost on Intel and Nokia. If the G-phone had a USB keyboard and VGA out it would replace my EEEPC that is based on the Intel Atom - soon I won't need a desktop. ARM doesn't run Windows and there are far more phones than Windows computers in the world. Intel have a lot tied into x86 and tat market could soon be in decline if it doesn't getinto the smart phone space.