Samsung preps first Windows Phone ‘Mango’ device

Why would it disgust you? At this point, Nokia became a charitable organization with a motto “deliver cheap phones to developing countries”. As thus:

1)  abandon Symbian (and Meego, the OS which actually mattered)
>> Three mainstream OS seems to be just enough. Add WebOS and BB, and it gets too much. Having a home-grown OS that is behind everyone else, no developers and no competitive features is nothing but a money drain. Good move for dumping money-wasting outdated platform.
2)  sacrifice thousands of jobs
>> This is a business necessity. You cut fat when times are dire to focus your resources on survival. It will be terrible if they hang to the jobs they don’t need.
3)  destroy its reputation
>> Nokia’s reputation has been destroyed since 2006. Now, it may actually regain reputation.
4)  ignore the US market (the country which invented the mobile phone and the most lucrative smartphone market on planet Earth)
>> It will surely NOT ignore the US market once it would have devices to compete. Being in the market where you cannot do anything with your products is not wise at the very least.
5)  still not have a modern tablet for sale (Nokia’s old internet tablets do not count in the real world)
>> This space is overcrowded already. Why rush to release just another tablet to the mix of 150+ that currently exist? To merely say “we have it”? RIM did it and what are the results?
6)  continually drop in stock price
>> This is not what they directly control. Stock price is a symptom, not a problem.
7)  produce no LTE devices
>> If you are in a market of making cheap phones for 3rd-world countries, why would you?
8)  lose market share globally
>> This is an effect, not a cause. Don’t mix these two up.
9)  delay product releases
>> Almost everyone does.
10) pull out of Japan (the country with the first GSM network in the world)
>> Were they doing splendidly there to stay?
11) screw up timelines
>> What did you mean by that?
12) close down online and retail shops (while iApple opens more and more and more
>> Why would you keep retail shops that are not profitable? Why would you keep them if people buy phones from carriers, not at branded stores?
13) have no foresight to adopt Android for at least one option as an OS on their hardware
>> And be 40th manufacturer to produce Android phones? It cannot compete with HTC and Samsung on price and it needs to differentiate itself. Android is not a good option.
14) and still…
>> That is yet to be seen.

All you did was recap what I said with explanations.  If I didn’t already understand those explanations, i wouldn’t have had reasons to list them.
My end all in that post was ‘Fail after fail after fail AND not be the first to release a device with their savior OS.  Another fail.’

RIM is pretty much doing the same thing

I use this thing called the internet.  You’re on it right now.  Go to Wikipedia.  Geez.

The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973.  The first phone call was made in Manhattan, NY.

Really?  First time to BGR?  Look at nearly every Apple sales estimate and the barrage of iPhone/iPad articles that are posted with speculation from every analyst that Gellar can find.  Gellar is long on Apple stock, and he will find any positive spin he can.  You don’t own a house in Greenwich, apartment in NYC, and an Aston Martin by selling a tech blog.