[Windows Phone 7 General] lekki:
EPIC post begin!!

This is an EPIC win for Microsoft and a MEGA-EPIC win for Nokia, here, here's why.

For Microsoft:

1/. WP7 hardware was stunted by the manufacturers. MS gave them minimum specs and they pretty much went with those even though the evidence was there that they didn't have to. What evidence? HTC Mozart has an 8 megapixel camera, Samsung phones use nand memory, Samsung phones used better screens, LG has DLNA baked into their handsets. Yet they all half-assed it, making it seem like their hands were tied and they couldn't have made their own distinctive bad ass hand sets.

Nokia doesn't have a choice, their hand sets are going to have to be bad ass from the get go. WP7 on high end smartphones is win.

2/. Nokia in a lot of countries to the average consumer has higher brand visibilty than whatever OS the phone is running. It's not an Android phone or a WM6.5 or WP7 or Symbian phone. It's an Iphone or a Nokia phone, or a HTC phone or a Blackberry etc. Brand loyalty still exists because different manufacturers have their reputations and for a good reason. Nokia has phones that have a reputation for not breaking no matter the abuse. Samsung for making phones full of technology encased in crappy, cheap plastic. LG for making Prada phones and so on and so forth. Whose reputation is the highest here?

3/. No manufacturer can boast as much market penetration globally as Nokia can. It's a good phone that'll last years be it $30 or $500 and that's why people choose Nokias which will now have WP7 on them. 40% marketshare will now belong to WP7.

4/. For whatever reason, Bing maps sucks outside the US. It's a fact. Bing Maps has some ridiculous tech and is buttery smooth and has polished looks on my phone. Now integrate that with OVI maps, the one great, and I mean GREAT thing about Nokia smartphones for other countries and even the US and you have mapping software the likes of which most have never seen before.

Offline mapping is a big deal people, OVI maps is better than Google maps as I used to use both at one point. My fiancée next to me on here Vibrant and me driving with my 5800 trying to find directions while on vacation. Guess who found directions that were correct first?

5/. Nokia will owe MS big time for making them a relevant company in the States.

For Nokia:

1/. If Nokia has something, it's apps. You can't have existed this long without them as a smartphone OS. All those apps and their large number of devs porting them to WP7, those that can't be ported being launched in a Symbian or Meego or Maemo emulator,

2/. See point 5 above, Nokia will become relevant in the States.

3/. They were given and easy button by MS. Instead of wasting manhours trying to bring Symbian into the modern smartphone era, WP7 has given them the spine they needed on which to build a new creature. They even have the right to customize!! Just not too much Nokia eh? ;)

4/. All Symbian devs are gonna be making a lot more money if the stick around. Android is WM6.5 with a better UI which is why I never even considered buying one. It will go eventually unless they change their business model. Most people really don't like have to become pseudo-devs to make their phones work just right.

An aside note, all you devs out there that were on the fence, imagine your apps reaching tens or even hundreds of millions more people now that WP7 is on Nokia handsets? $$$$$:D

EPIC post end.