[SOLVED] Microsoft and Nokia to link arms?

[Charge]

Posted at Engadget, there is an alliance forming between Microsoft and Nokia. ZunePhone?

Hopefully they will tie this in with the Danger company they bought a while back. And I hope it isn't a ZuneHD with phone capabilities. That's a possibility.

We're not sure what to make of this, but we were just invited to a joint Microsoft / Nokia teleconference during which the two companies will announce an "alliance." Yeah, there are some pretty wild possibilities there -- Nokia going WinMo? Redmond going Symbian? The creation of MaeWinMo? -- but considering the featured speakers are Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, and Kai Öistämö, Nokia's EVP for devices, we're guessing the real announcement will be something more pedestrian, like native Exchange support on Symbian or possibly that upcoming Atom netbook running Windows 7. Otherwise, hell -- Nokia would be supporting three different mobile OSs, and that seems just a little too crazy, even for Espoo. We'll see -- it all goes down tomorrow at 11AM Eastern.

[Zombii Matt]

ooo cant wait to see what happens with this

[Charge]

Maybe to use their wireless internet usage?

[J2800]

I smell a buyout/merger. Microsoft needs experience making phones, and Nokia has made decent products in the past.

[ACE]

Just announced this meeting is about getting Office onto Symbian... Nokia and Microsoft to announce an "alliance" tomorrow -- what? Update: Office on Nokia phones

[Creative Zune]

if you didnt know ...: Nokia has an app store that has almost as many apps as apples app store but the difference is that Nokia's apps are useful

links
Nokia Opens Ovi App Store, U.S. Will Have to Wait - PC World


https://store.ovi.com/


http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/27...kia-ovi-store/

[Charge]

So does this mean we can download Nokia apps to the ZuneHD?

[Creative Zune]

Originally Posted by Charge

So does this mean we can download Nokia apps to the ZuneHD?

well as far as i know nokia apps are in .sis and .sisx format so im guessing that maybe they can add that format support via software update and a sdk and still keep the backwards compatibility with xna

[J2800]

I hope we can. Maybe it will be "ZuneHD App Store: Sponsored by Nokia". I like that.