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Why “Nokia will win on hardware” is the smart answer

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Time and time again we hear how Apple are ninjas in the supply chain, and this is why they can make money and stay ahead of the competition. We also hear lots of people asking how Nokia will differentiate with Windows Phone if Samsung, HTC and others are also building devices with Mango. The answer is not in the software changes Nokia can make (although those will be useful). The key is going to be in the hardware chain. It’s not as locked in as Apple’s, but it’s one of the best around and is going to give Nokia a

What happens when you switch from Android to Symbian?

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Janne Jalkanen, who has more experience of issues with Symbian/Nokia than most, found out: [lots of well presented reasons against Android] – Update: Janne points out these are specifc to HTC. Anyhoo, even if I did say that this never would happen, I’m back with Symbian. I got myself a Nokia E7, which is, especially with Symbian Anna, a pretty spiffy machine. Now, it’s got it’s own irritations (especially on the app development front), and my mind still boggles at the retardedness of the browser. Not shipping a first-class mobile browser at this day and age is simply inexcusable. The

What could happen to WebOS now?

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So you have a competent smartphone operating system, an engineering team that, with the right inducement, could stay with the OS, and a rather fluid market looking for options. What will HP do with WebOS next? Let’s have some pointless speculative fun over the next few paragraphs. Facebook buys the whole operation. Probably a long shot, and built on the speculation that Zuckerberg and co. are working on a Facebook phone. They certainly have some raw data (via Three in the UK), and acquiring a bundle of software engineers, an OS that is built on HTML5 and web technologies, with (you assume)