[koevet]

Shipping Android phones would be probably a smart move for Nokia but I don't think the company wants to be bound to Google that much. Instead of insisting on Symbian, they should have worked on developing a proper Linux-based OS. Maybe is not relevant, but Linus Torvalds is Finnish and the country, even if rather small, has the brain power to do that. Maybe now is too late and probably the Android move would be the smartest but I don't think it'll happen.

[zokier]

Nokia has shipped mobile Linux devices(770, N800, N810) long before no one even imagined Android. With touchscreens and all.

[mseebach]

device, yes.

I want a cellphone that's also a computer. I don't need a small computer, I don't care that it has a touch screen.

If they'd launched the 770 with a cellphone+3G modem (or GPRS at least, don't remember when it was launched), Android might not have existed today. They really dropped the ball there.

[bigtones]

They should ship Android phones now. This will buy them a year and a half in which to progress their own operating system to the point of it being competitive, at which point they can launch phones with that, and have it be a differentiating factor amongst the, by then, sea of Android phones. They have no viable product in the smart phone space now, and the feature phone market has increasingly limited profit margins, so Android is the best option.

[thewileyone]

Right now, the 400lb pound gorilla for all phone companies is Apple. Moving to Android is the best thing for Nokia to do because of the availability of applications, interests, etc. To build something to compete from the ground-up would be insane.

Nokia should take a page out of the HTC playbook: Implement Android but have it's own flavor through TouchFlo.

[vetinari]

Not really, Apple, while it is the loud one, does not have the volume shipped Nokia has.

Remember, there are much more folks who want phone than those who want pocket computer or toy.

[bawatski]

maemo?

[zandor]

And MeeGo.