Symbian was ALLWAYS a bad platform, which got little traction outside Nokia, and some of the technical decisions eg "Symbian Signed" were brain dead marketing ideas that made the platform even more hostile. Ie if Nokia didn't do it you could not have it, even on your own phone, period.

So Symbian spoilt Nokia's high end while the margins on the low end, simple phone eg N3110, 5 days battery life were eroded to nothing. Nothing Nokia has done, at the high end has worked and they have destroyed all confidence that they know how to build a smart-phone. I predict WP7 will be a disaster and will do neither Nokia or M$ any good.

Nokia had the money to make QT+mego a success, but none of the drive, immagination or technical management to realize sucess.

When the M$ adventure is seen to flop they will be done. Very Sad.

M$ like a dog, on the wrong side of every issue.

Didn't you gyus invent the Tea Party to stop the legislative assholes, who have a massive sense of entitlement, from taxing anything that moves?

No, and neither am I, this is part of the AGW scam which the Lame Stream Meidia
are in up to their armpits.

When you can see the radiometer readings they are ~0,2 mS, ie BACKGROUND but
pools are boiling, containment MAY be breached, reactors are in scary MELTDOWN
days after they SCRAMED. Pull the other leg.

Asshole America under Obama is being talked up for another ban like the Gulf drilling
ban and the fracking ban ... and all the other bans which leave Windmills which don't
work

Meanwhile Obama now thinks the US should invade Libya.

Though not from the US this is nonsense mission creap. The Department of Education is
unconstitutional, and uses up resources that would otherwise be available to support
educarion.

They constantly interfear with the running of schools and in the British system have taken
a working system and destroyed it.

Get rid of these people and leave harrasment to the police.

Napolitano is just one more of the long like of elected idiots who understand neither technology or their
job, which is (military) Intelegence and are trying to use computers in exactly the wrong way. Empirical
Computer modeling and 'tell-me-what-is-going-on' are beyond modern technology.

Hunches and good intuition is presently reserved to the people, and all this anti-profiling, security theatre
and techno babble just gets in the way of having a small team of expert investigators in FBI and CIA and
also the national intellegence agencies of UK and Europe eg DSGE, BND. these staff need to work directly
to their director and have direct and immediate access to the Sec HS and Justice.

The need all to be arabic speaking and knowledgeable in the Quran and Hadit, they need to have had
field experience.

A course with ShinBet wouldn't hurt.

If, when I and my children lived in the UK, a teacher had tried to do this I would have sued s/his ass off. Now
I would insert the barrel of my SIG 210 up their left nostril and politely ask them NOT to do it again.

What do those people think they are?

They can insist that the phone be made silent and pupils do not initiate calls

Seconded, NO ONE

Your argument is absolute nonsense
(a) Global warming, if it ever existed, has stopped, except at NASA, where it is politicised hot air
(b) the Science is far from setteled
(c) the 'precautionary principle' is snake-oil

Alernative energy strategies need to be devised by engineers and rigorously costed.

Hint, the only thing that works today is fast fission nuclear, all the rest is expensive junk.

You need fewer lawyers and more enginners who are of strong character, not nerds to be pushed around ignorant jocks.

You are and idiot and should go back to school where you would learn that CO2 is NOT TOXIC

and we cannot remove it from the atmosphere since photosynthasis produce/depend on it and
so if you did all plants, and then us, would DIE

It is this kind og carap that makes me dispair of the warmists, they know nothing and are certain of
everything.

The problem in the USA once more comes to corporates .. so I absolutely agree

"a couple Execs with broken necks would sort this shit right out."

Starting on Wall Street whose dinizens have done MUCH more damage than BP

Seconded, and He certainly dosn't understand how irritating and anoying are his intervention in blogs eg "lwn.net" which are technical and we do not care for one who must have the political LAST WORD, again and again and ...

That is part of the story, but it isn't all, to have multi-device-homed code you need to get all the BIG/LITTLE 16/32/64 ILP bugs out of your code, and that takes a long time, but both WNT and Linux are very modular with respect to architecture and tool chain, so that is not a lot of work.

SMP, Power Management, Work Queues and managing applications so the dont/cant kill the battery is hard, isolating the network and telephony is also easy.

As usual M$ will not be held back by basics but by sloth, lack of insight and perenially bad management.

Too little, too late, feature incomplete ... EPIC FAIL! But I suspect the astroturfers, pumpers and Useful Idiots to be out in force.

This is Islam at its best, Just send them all back to Saudi where they can't
drive and the men and the rligeous police can beat them.

I don't want agile development anywhere, but last of all in my phone or car.

In a phone, primarily I want a phone, with good 4+ days battery life, my N 3100 does that,
fits in my car and mutes the entertainment system when using your phone so hands free
is reasonably safe.

I need to re-boot, ie power off, my N95 once a week because Symbian goes dollaly.

Whe Bosch, who make the BMW and Mercedes engine/gearbox controllers, they started
the same crap, UNTIL Bosch reverted. I do not need a car that gets BSOD.

A NewZeeland friend with a new 535i that did this had a relay system fitted that took Vcc off the
ECR/TCS and put a 10 ohm 50 watt resistor across the Vcc input pins to discharge the
internal capacitors. Pushing the button once a week made his car work, not leave him by
the roadside once ever 3 months.

I say again M$ quality!