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2011-01-27 , 22:12
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Originally Posted by efekt View Post
What about the idea of Nokia turning into a more hardware centric company?
I bet in the future we could upgrade our devices (I wonder if they'd be called 'phones' at all) just like we upgrade our PCs today - e.g add/remove hardware to/from it.
So how about Nokia going to that direction by shipping fully opened devices, stocked with MeeGo/Symbian, but with the possibility to install WP7/Android/Whatever on it, effectively making Nokia a hardware vendor?
Of course some adaptations would be needed, but maybe they could provide some quick means for that...

Just a thought
I think that might be an option if Nokia were an Asian company, but I doubt a corporation in a high wage, generous social safety net country like Finland could compete with asian manufacturers as a hardware-only company. I think the same reasoning means they can't just become a manufacturer of Android or (especially) WP7 phones, which will soon be commodity products.
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