[citation][nom]abottig[/nom]. Focus on the Uber-Geek market and make a full line-up of truly open Linux phones!!![/citation]
Wow.. yeah, they're not out to commit suicide. It's a great idea from a consumer standpoint. The problem is the carriers. You would black list your own company so fast you couldn't dump your stock before it fell, if you didn't allow the carriers to cripple the phone. I haven't seen a decent nokia available in a long time. My significant other loves Nokia phones for a the main reason of quality. They weren't the best phones, but they took a beating and didn't die on the two year mark (at least for her, somehow she has one that's 5 years old and triband.) He focuses on the ecosystem thing, which is retarded. It wasn't magic everything became possible, it was improvement of processors, and development of OS's that wasn't just an embeded system that can run a java app. If Nokia wants to get back in the game, make something polished, that works consistantly, for those that hate technology. My other half hates the android phone after a year of having it because of the quirks and "it doesn't work." She will remember the two times that she couldn't answer because the screen was being wierd and didn't respond for the rest of her (and more unfortuneatly my) life. If Nokia doesn't lock them into a draconian OS and applications, interfaces with windows well (you know to load music from WMP *shudders* smoothly), and provides good working apps of the best "Oh, shiny" functions like: video player with all major codecs so there's nothing to convert, flash with flash game ability (it'd be an instant sell if she could play robot unicorn attack on her phone *shrugs*), e-mail, internet, messaging. If you allow developers to program in C/C++ (it's just more efficient then java ok?) with a decent SDK you could get good programs that people will be wow'd by.