> I think it's best that they leave it to MS.
If they do it, they'll be a commodity phone maker and will have to compete in price with other WP7 phone makers. All three of them.
If they do it, they'll be a commodity phone maker and will have to compete in price with other WP7 phone makers. All three of them.
It's not like everyone in NA wants to buy a WP7 phone now. If they change the UI enough, maybe someone will want it.
WP7 (or 8 for that matter) isn't going to be helped in this kind of scenario by a bleeding vendor that can't sell more than a few hundred thousand devices. As consumers, we're not going to be helped by the death-by-a-thousand-downsizings of Nokia (a business that has a good record otherwise of innovation in technology and market development, at least until the last few years) and a side show of a user community that can't support development of innovative software and business models.
Three? There's atleast 4 in the US, HTC, Samsung, LG and Dell.
They have the two largest smartphone manufacturers outside of Apple and RIM, in HTC and Samsung.
Among the large manufacturers, all they are missing is Sony Ericsson and Motorola. And I believe only Motorola has hinted that they are Android only.
And Nokia is still larger (not for long) than #2 and #3 in terms of worldwide sales.
It is, WP7 marketplace already has around 15,000 apps and is growing faster than the iPhone and Android stores at a similar stage.