I work for Sendo, that company which was to release the first Microsoft smartphone. I wish to confirm with you some of the stories you have wisely published and enighten you in a few new areas.
You are correct in saying that Nokia is funding Sendo´s suit against Microsoft. The funding, however, is not direct. It is achieved through reduced price of Series60 licenses and use of advanced versions of Series60.
The advanced technology that Sendo is in the Sendo Symbian phone is not produced by Sendo but by Nokia. While you may think that Nokia is using Sendo to test the software, it is in fact partly a reward for taking Microsoft to court.
Unfortunately, Nokia is worried because the court case against Microsoft is not working now that Microsoft has technology giants such as Motorola developing Microsoft Smartphones.
The failure of Sendo to produce a Microsoft smartphone was not, as you have already made clear, down to Microsoft. However, were you aware that neither was the failure due to Sendo? The breakdown in communication was caused during a conference for directors and developer-chiefs of various phone manufacturers where Nokia spies produced fake e-mails which they claimed to have received from contacts within Microsoft declaring Microsoft´s desire to ruin Sendo and steal their technology.
The e-mails were worded and designed to look like the Halloween documents of old and this caused Sendo to look for ways out of its binding with Microsoft. You´d think that Sendo would understand such tactics, but it´s a small and insignificant UK company which is anti-European and fails to accept anything that will not give it an advantage over its local and foreign competitors.
