Hasta La Gadget!

When Motorola announced its dedication to Android relatively early on, people called the company crazy. Why would the handset manufacturer devote its line to that go nowhere mobile OS? The gamble paid off, of course, snatching Motorola from what looked like inevitable collapse.

Nokia’s position in 2011 is, of course, a bit than Motorola’s in, say, late 2009. Nokia, after all, is still the world’s leading phone manufacturer. When people speak about the company’s failures, it’s all relative–Nokia is failure, perhaps, but it’s the number one failure. The company has surrendered much of its market share to the likes of the iPhone and Android in all its various incarnations.

Nokia’s continued support of Symbian has largely been regarded as a sign that the company just can’t adapt to the new smartphone world. Ovi was, perhaps, a nice shot, but has paled in comparison to what the iPhone App Store has delivered.

Now the mobile world is all atwitter with buzz that the company might dump Symbian for Windows Phone 7. The company’s stock got a bit of a bump after an analyst suggested that an alliance between the two corporations would be mutual beneficial.

Certainly such a move would be a kick in the pants for Nokia, but while Windows Phone 7 has definitely resuscitated Microsoft’s sickly mobile team, the operating system is hardly a runaway success. The software giant, after all, is talking customer satisfaction instead of sales figure for a reason–WP7 isn’t really selling all that great.