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I didn't work in the phone division, but my impression from working at Nokia and spending time in Finland in the early 2000s was, that like any company producin
by jmspring 13y ago
I didn't work in the phone division, but my impression from working at Nokia and spending time in Finland in the early 2000s was, that like any company producing hardware, there were efforts at producing phones for a few years out. This included both hardware and software -- tools for some of the system 60/80 stuff was contracted out to a company no longer in existence.
So, from the stand point of future thinking, it seems perfectly reasonable that Nokia had handsets that could run android. This is no different than Apple making sure OS X ran on both Power and Intel architectures. Hedging one's bets is always good.
- Zigurd 13y agoAndroid is open enough that Nokia could likely cobble up a very decent speculative port of AOSP plus gapps and scare the crap out of anyone not familiar with android porting, making them think a deal was immanent. Nokia's handsets all use recent Qualcomm chipsets, so I would not be surprised if they demo'ed the whole product line running Android just to stampede Microsoft into this deal.