Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 11/02/11 13:45, Terry Coles wrote: How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the boat on Smartphones, because they stayed with Symbian, but they had a chance to catch up with MeeGo. Now they've hi

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Natalie Hooper
On 11 February 2011 13:59, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > > I saw a comment somewhere along the lines of "two turkeys don't make an > eagle". Yes, Vic Gundotra (VP of Engineering at Google and known for giving the Keynote speech at Google I/O 2010) tweeted that on Wednesday. He used to work at Mi

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 11/02/11 14:02, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the boat on Smartphones, because they stayed with Symbian, but they had a chan

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > c.f http://blog.cocoia.com/2011/hp-webos-event-roundup/ > > Another competitor enters the ring (potentially, at least) and their > offering looks pretty good. WebOS is based on the Linux kernel, but the > rest is closed source as far as I know.

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Bryn Jones
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 18:01 +, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 11/02/11 14:02, Terry Coles wrote: > > On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: > >> How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever > >> since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread Natalie Hooper
Yes, WebOS is interesting and of course, MeeGo isn't entirely dead but it is a major blow to its future on smartphones (that doesn't mean it won't succeed elsewhere though, notably on netbooks). As for Nokia's decision, it is going to have a major impact on the future of the industry - either it i

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-11 Thread John Cooper
On 11/02/11 20:27, Natalie Hooper wrote: Yes, WebOS is interesting and of course, MeeGo isn't entirely dead but it is a major blow to its future on smartphones (that doesn't mean it won't succeed elsewhere though, notably on netbooks). As for Nokia's decision, it is going to have a major impact

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-12 Thread Ted Frater
John Cooper wrote: On 11/02/11 20:27, Natalie Hooper wrote: Yes, WebOS is interesting and of course, MeeGo isn't entirely dead but it is a major blow to its future on smartphones (that doesn't mean it won't succeed elsewhere though, notably on netbooks). As for Nokia's decision, it is going to

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Natalie Hooper wrote: > As for Nokia's decision, it is going to have a major impact on the future > of the industry - either it is going to sink Nokia completely or it is > going to establish Windows Mobile 7 as a serious contender. Seen this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech

[Dorset] Nokia announcement - MeeGo gets relegated to a project as opposed to the de-facto platform for their smartphones

2011-02-11 Thread Natalie Hooper
Unfortunately for Linux/open source, Nokia has decided to use Windows Mobile and not their own open-source Linux-based MeeGo as their de-facto platform for their new range of smartphones. They have indicated they will carry on work on MeeGo but it will essentially become a side-project for them and

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement - MeeGo gets relegated to a project as opposed to the de-facto platform for their smartphones

2011-02-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Natalie Hooper wrote: > Unfortunately for Linux/open source, Nokia has decided to use Windows > Mobile and not their own open-source Linux-based MeeGo as their de-facto > platform for their new range of smartphones. They have indicated they will > carry on work on MeeGo but i

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement - MeeGo gets relegated to a project as opposed to the de-facto platform for their smartphones

2011-02-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: > How are the mighty fallen! Nokia have been the leading phone provider ever > since there were mobiles, (certainly in Europe). They missed the boat on > Smartphones, because they stayed with Symbian, but they had a chance to > catch up with MeeGo. Even