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Nokia launches first mobile device powered by Microsoft software November 02, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. Is it one-off? We don't know, but clearly it would be wise for Nokia to manufacture also Windows Mobile phones - after all this is what (at least some) customers want... The first device by Nokia powered by Microsoft software is Nokia 330 powered by Windows CE and running Route66 GPS car navigation software. Clearly Nokia is late to the market of GPS navigation devices, and to catch up in this area Nokia goes the fast route and is using Windows CE - the same operating system that constitutes the core of Windows Mobile. Windows CE is also used by big number of manufacturers of GPS car navigation devices... Unfortunately Nokia management still thinks in terms of world domination (Nokia de-facto owns Symbian, that has over 80% of global market share of smartphones) rather than cooperation and it is unlikely at this moment that Nokia will start also releasing Windows Mobile powered mobile phones... but after 2-year-long Microsoft-Palm cooperation that was kept in secret - everything is possible. Furtheremore it is yet unclear whether Nokia 330 was developed in-house by Nokia or whether it is one of those devices designed and manufactured in Taiwan but only with "Nokia" label on them. Nokia was doing such tricks in past and releasing, on one-off basis, a smartphone powered by Symbian UIQ, although Nokia uses its own variants of Symbian usually never UIQ - actually it was a handset manufactured by BenQ. Similar situation was in Japan, where Nokia not having technical know-how was sticking its label on some phones designed and made by Japanese corporations. It could be therefore, that Nokia 330 was not designed by Nokia at all, but one thing is for sure: clearly Symbian may be good enough for (toy-like) mobile phones but is not good enough for (much more mission critical) GPS navigation systems....  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]
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