[kj55552009]

I can't wait to buy a WP7 phone by Nokia!

I'm so excited to hear that Nokia will be allowed to leverage its core competencies on Microsoft's platform.

No doubt, this means that WP7 will have Nokia's pop-up error messages on top of Microsoft's pop-up error messages. I love pop-up error messages! You can never have too many of those. The more incomprehensible, the better!

Get ready for a Windows Vista experience on your phone! Like Vista, the Nokia-WP7 will be extremely stable and secure. To launch an application, you just tap on the icon, then tap "allow" on a series of Nokia's pop-up messages asking if you are sure you want to launch the application, let the application access your data, let the app connect to the internet, let the app connect to the GPS, and whether you want to accept the app's certificate this time only. After that, you will get the same pop-up messages again, only this time they will be from Microsoft!

[h3csc]

Err well, what's your point actually?
Maybe I'm don't have enough IQ to understand your joke

[kj55552009]

I also love WP7 because it will save me time! The phone can hardly do anything, so I have more time for everything else!

No multitasking

No tethering (=wifi hotspot) now and no free tethering ever

No Outlook sync

No Flash support (=no Youtube)
No hot swappable SD card support
No cut and paste
No full file system access

No voip or sip support for internet calls

No device or personal certificate support for wpa2 (= no wifi connection at your university or workplace)

Hardly any apps

No java app support

No external storage support

[kj55552009]

I forgot a few other things:

No divx or xvid support for HD videos (only Microsoft's inefficient video formats)

Requires expensive hardware, a minimum 1 GHz cpu to run (= out of reach for most people in Nokia's strongest markets like India - but hey, there's only about 3 billion potential customers in those markets)

[kj55552009]

All joking aside, the sad thing about this is that Nokia just recently, finally understood one of the two things that are of crucial importance to consumers: apps.

But Microsoft has never understood this and continues to treat app developers like dirt. An example of this is that if the developer does not reside in one of the 18 countries in Microsofts "supported countries" list, they are NOT ALLOWED to develop apps for WP7 or XBOX even if they wanted to. Where's the sense in this? Countries that are not supported include Finland, the country where Nokia's headquarters are located! In unsupported countries, customers are not even allowed to buy or install apps, as access to Microsoft's Marketplace is blocked.

Now Nokia's Qt environment, which has received nothing but praise from developers, is going down the drain with Symbian.

Neither Nokia nor Microsoft has ever fully understood the second thing that is of crucial importance to consumers: usability. People want their phones to "just work" without having to go through dozens of nested menus to specify cryptic settings like "certificates" and "proxy servers", when all they want is to connect to the wifi network at their university or workplace. (Of course, this is currently a problem only in Symbian phones, as wpa2 enterprise is not supported on WP7 at all.)

[tottoroo]

Mr. Elop, why you released this cooperation with Microsoft and You don't even have WP7-phone ready for sale? That was a big mistake! Now there is plenty of angry share holders!

[The_Stranger]

While I won't be ditching my current Nokia until it dies I won't be buying a new one. Pity as I've been a Nokia buy since day one. Microsoft are incapable of writing relatively bug free software that doesn't have an infinite amount of security flaws.

[a10203040]

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The_Stranger wrote:

While I won't be ditching my current Nokia until it dies I won't be buying a new one. Pity as I've been a Nokia buy since day one. Microsoft are incapable of writing relatively bug free software that doesn't have an infinite amount of security flaws.

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Sigh.. Neither is anyone else capable of writing a relatively bug free OS, especially for their 1.0 release. Windows, WP, OSX, ios, all versions of linux, they're fixing and patching it all the time.  What's your point?

You guys seem to be rubbishing this on Microsoft's reputation rather than the merits of the OS and the individuals working on the OS. WP is lacking a lot of features, but it is constantly being updated at the moment. I feel it'll be much clearer closer to the time Nokia release their first WP phone if the arrangement had been worthwhile.

That said, I'm more "wait and see" regarding WP on Nokia phones. If Microsoft does improve WP enough, integrate it with my desktop well enough (I still have my contacts, calenders and stuff on both Outlook and Ovi Suite), and Nokia manages to port in some of good stuff they had such as Ovi Maps with free navigation into those phones who knows..