Nokia/Microsoft phone by the end of 2011

This is what Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said during last week's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona. I am happy to hear that. By that time, Nokia will be nowhere in the smart phone market!

Paul Otellini's comment on Nokia's decision

Intel's CEO Paul Otellini said Nokia went to the "highest bidder" when it chose to use Micro$oft's operating system on future phones instead of Software Nokia is developing with Intel.

It seems both Micro$oft and Google offered money to Nokia and they went for the "highest bidder"!

I too felt that MeeGo was much better bet for Nokia but the best would have been to embrace Android. Even though Intel is part of MeeGo, Paul Otellini openly reconfirmed my opinion.

Anyway, I seriously consider this decision as the final nail on Nokia's coffin.

HP wasted 1.2 billion dollars

Yea, HP bought Palm for US$ 1.2 billions. I really think it is a waste of money!

We will see in another couple of months the destiny of their Palm TouchPad that is based on the webOS.

Though I welcome a new competitor in the smart devices space, I still think that HP could have gone with Android.

Nokia's major mistakes!

Nokia has been doing a lot of "mistakes" during the past few years and thus, losing their market share at a faster pace. On top of their inability to predict the openness and kind of technologies needed to compete with its rivals in the smart phone market, they made 2 major mistakes.

1: In September 2010, Stephen Elop joined as President & CEO of Nokia.

2: In February 2011, Nokia announced joint development with Microsoft to bring out Windows based smart phones to the market.

The second mistake will definitely lead to the death of both Symbian and MeeGo.