Poor Old Nokia

I was inspired to write [continue writing] this post when I read a post over at branedy.net about Stephen (flipity flop) Elop, a little while back. It sounds like it's complete chaos at Nokia. I bought into the "Lets go with Microsoft" thing. I thought it mad enough to work, some what at least, but there has been nothing since then. I was expecting some sort of blitz campaign. A mad dash to get phones on shelves and ads on billboards. Nothing though.

Some history: for thirteen years I've bought, used, and preached from the Nokia pulpit. Some months back I broke from my own 13-year-old [sounds dodgy but bear with me] mold and bought an LG Android touchscreen phone. I felt uneasy and hesitant about this. I don't like touchscreens and I didn't like taking chances away from "good old reliable" Nokia. I desperately needed a new phone. The battery in my Nokia 6500 wouldn't hold a charge and it was beginning to act funny. It would need work done and money spent on it. I figured after 2 years I might as well buy a new phone.

So how has it affected me since acquiring an Android phone? I'm a total convert. Even the niggles of Android are being overlooked. The touchescreen thing is great. The appstore wonderful and everything is is brilliant. First thing I did was install Angry Birds and start playing... It was ok but over hyped. I deleted it soon afterwards. That was but a small blip on the good ship Android.

The phone itself is fine. Slim and iPod-wannabe-ish. No problems other than the fact than build quality is, well... "cheap and cheerful". It has made me lament Nokia's decline. Nokia always produced quality phones, even the cheap and nasty ones. But why oh why did they get lazy with the OS. I really didn't have many of the problems others had with the Symbian OS but you need to listen to how the mass trend is going. A phone's OS is like an engine type in a car: you need a diesel model, a petrol model, a hybrid... if you see electric cars being released and bought up, get an electric thing out there. Fuck your pride. Test the waters with your own "experimental" releases. Nokia didn't do this. Nokia fell asleep, and now they have the weirdest fucking CEO in history. David Brent would do a better job of it.