It was just a plan B in case the MS deal wouldn't have gone through. Now since it has in fact gone through, there is no point holding off, hoping for a Nokia phone running Android OS.
On 9/17/13, Satguru Rathi <tarannumra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering what is the point now to waite for Nokia to come on Android > when MS has already acquired their phone division? I don't see any Nokia > phones on any platform in the coming future. Please enlighten. > > Satguru > ___,__.___ > "Life's battle do not always go, to the stronger or faster man. But sooner > or later the one who wins, is the one who thinks he can." > > Satguru Rathi. > Mobile: +91-9871489945 > Email: satgurura...@yahoo.co.in > satg...@saksham.org > Skype: satgururathi > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/satguru.rathi.9 > Website: www.saksham.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Renuka Warriar Edakkunni > Sent: Tuesday, 17 September, 2013 09:41 AM > To: Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile > phonesand Tabs. > Subject: Re: [Mobile.AI] (no subject) > > SSo am I. > > > On 9/17/13, anil kumar <artprat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was planning to buy new android mobile but >> now i'm thinking to postpond my plan for some time because of Nokia >> >> On 9/16/13, Sinoj <sinoj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If Nokia released Android based phone, Nokia could get back it's 1st >>> position. >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "anil kumar" <artprat...@gmail.com> >>> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 4:49 AM >>> To: "Dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile >>> phonesand Tabs." <mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >>> Subject: [Mobile.AI] (no subject) >>> >>>> Nokia tested Android on Lumia phones: Report >>>> >>>> >>>> NEW DELHI: Nokia could have switched loyalty to Google's Android >>>> operating system after 2014, according to a blog on New York Times. >>>> According to Nick Wingfield's blog on NYT's Bits Blog, "Before >>>> Microsoft reached a deal to buy Nokia's phone business, there was a >>>> possibility that Nokia could have switched its smartphones to Google's >>>> Android operating system sometime after late 2014." >>>> >>>> A Nokia team reportedly began testing Android OS on the company's >>>> Lumia handsets long before the company signed the dotted line on >>>> acquisition by Microsoft of its mobile business. 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