Nokia weighs Android, MeeGo, and Windows Phone

By on Feb 10, 2011 at 9:28 AM
mobile February 10, 2011

Tomorrow is D-Day for Nokia. At the company’s Capital Markets Day, CEO Stephen Elop is expected to announce a major shift in Nokia’s smartphone strategy — by strategy, we mean operating system. Rumors have been flying that Elop, Microsoft’s former business unit chief, will align his new company with his old, bringing Nokia-branded Windows Phone handsets to market in the near future. Mr. Elop sat down with Mobilized’s Ina Fried last week to discuss what’s next for Nokia. Without tipping his hand, the CEO let it be known that Android, MeeGo, and Windows Phone were all options.

After commenting on the viability of the three, aforementioned mobile OS’, Nokia’s front-man also addressed his company’s lackluster North American presence. “We need to be in the United States in one way, shape or form,” said Mr. Elop. “We have to have a viable way to reopen doors.”

The moment of truth is tomorrow. What do you think Nokia should do?

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  • Anonymous

    Go with WP7. It’s a great OS that will be 10x better in a year.

    • Itsjustmee

      go with WP7 and guarantee 90% of the population will never even consider buying your phones…
      might as well just shut down the company

      • Yoyo

        Pretty much this, Windows is garbage then again atleast in the States Nokia has been garbage lately as well.

  • Roger

    Anything but WP7. Thanks to chairman Ollila, Nokia once was the only wall stopping Microsoft to dominate the whole world of technology. Don’t offer them the bullet to kill us.

  • Prvlge

    If they wanna survive, I would push forward as a handset manufacturer (like HTC) but keep MeeGo as the prime OS of majority of phones. Also make more carrier friendly phones. The 6300 was a good selling basic device.

  • Harley

    Nokia/WebOS and Nokia/RIM are the only decitions that would make sense to me. Windoze sucks, people aren’t buying android 10 to 1 over windows 7 because they don’t like the hardware choises, they arnt buying them because they don’t want them. At least with RIM and WebOS Nokia would be bringing something new to the mix, better hardware(one would hope) to platforms that have suffered from limited single manufacturer options.

    • Bill

      Really? WIN7 phones have been selling well, the os has not been out that long, not as long as Android.
      Give them a chance…
      Palms OS would have been the best choice, but since HP has it, WIN7 mobile is a good second choice.
      Microsoft has some good talent & is very hungry to get back into this market.. Who would have ever thought they would overtake Sony in the game console market…
      As for Blackberry most people don’t choose the phone their employer does…

  • Malc

    The main problem I have had with my Nokia (X6) is the lack of apps If this side was developed then as far as i could see they could have held their heads up in the market place. Now they have officially put the last nail in the coffin of Symbian no more apps will be developed (meaning i will not be able to get any more decent apps for my phone) so they are liable to go down the tubes a little till the new phones with an OS with decent programs/apps is up and running.

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