Nokia has published the Q4 2010 results a few days ago showing a big drop in profits but also an increase in sales. 5 millions Symbian^3 devices were sold beating the numbers of all Windows Phone 7 devices combined but hings are getting tough for Nokia and Symbian as the market gets more and more competitive from the rest of the platforms. We are going to analyse the current state of the mobile market and what we should expect from Nokia, Symbian and MeeGo as well as what alternative ways are available for Nokia taking in mind all the hard facts.
Just yesterday, Tarmo Virki from Reuters wrote that the long awaited new flagship smartphone and communicator successor from Nokia, the E7, is going to be delayed for release to next year. The article that you can read here describes the situation in a really bad and negative way without mentioning the reasons behind the delay.
A month ago the MeeGo wiki informed us about the critical Core OS Program/Kernel policy changes that were approved in the December 15, 2010 Technical Steering Group Meeting. The importance of these changes was actually left unoticed but there are many hints about how the MeeGo ecosystem really works and essentially what we should expect in the future from MeeGo and all the companies behind it. Phorepoc is going to highlight all these hard facts that went unoticed.