Nokia and Microsoft Struggle to Find Clear Mobile Message

When I heard about this partnership between Nokia and MS, I said "When the two companies with the worst understanding about the future of the mobile market get together, look for nothing good to come out of it." They are proving me right.

Interestingly, all the mobile phone adverts that I see around the place are for the Galaxy Nexus.

+1 for Android there. A high-end, "desirable" aspiration phone. Even if "the youth" can't afford it, they want to have it anyway. That's what the youth and the mobile phone market is all about and this paltry release by Nokia just proves that they are so out of touch with what's happening, it's not funny.

just proves that they are so out of touch with what's happening, it's not funny.

In my sick and twisted world....yes it is.

Nokia had carnal relations with the canine, unfortunately. Maemo, as of the N900, had matured pretty well. All it needed was a cosmetic make-over to compete with iOS or Android. Then, they went and shot it dead, behind the wood shed, like it was a rapid dog. (Jeez, I'm just loaded with dog analogies, today.)

> Jeez, I'm just loaded with dog analogies, today.

Well, at least your comments aren't going to the dogs.

@JaseP -

Well, at least your dogs are fast instead of being infected with a terrible disease.

Maybe it's a Russian dog. (sorry)

I thought thje message was clear. "free Windows phones for the best Android malware stories."

I just saw a story on the web indicating that SMS messaging is an attack vector for Win7 phones... Sending a simple SMS to win phone users causes one of the major systems on the phone to shut down,... Oh, Microsoft, if ye would only get the log out of thy own eye...

Quoting:"What an cr@p review!! it's one of the best phone available, iphone is so dumb compared to this.... Guess some one is paying you lumpsum, congrats..", he wrote.

He posted his comment from the iP address of 192.100.117.41 - which belongs to Nokia.

Another commenter calling himself Aditya Agrawal wrote: "dude, gone are the times when actual consumers just use to care about the technical specificiations of mobiles. today, people want devices which are beauitful, fast and easy-to-use. for most of the consumers, it does not matter if the phone has 512mb or 1gb ram. if the 512mb performs better in real-life, that't the one customers are gonna prefer. just a small advice [sic], go to a store and use windows phone 7.5 for 10 mins, the last thing you will care is whether the phone has a single or a dual core."

Agrawal posted from the IP address of 207.46.55.31 - which apparently belongs to Microsoft. (That IP address seems to have been used to make a number of unwelcome edits to Wikipedia; many have been reverted.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/dec/19/nokia-... http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/242360/scitech/technolo... ;-P

M$ viral marketing, ... they often hack at tablet wiki too... reinventing history, claiming they invented the mobile PC genre ...