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A requiem for Nokia: I really should have seen this coming…

I feel very strongly that, like Microsoft, Nokia’s days as an innovator are pretty much over.

Hoping hardware still matters at Nokia.

Listening to him speak really drove home the sea change that is happening at Nokia. And while such changes will surely have a positive impact on Nokia’s stock price (almost anything would at this point, really) this particular presentation left me feeling just a bit uneasy.

Though clearly a talk about software and user experience, I got the sense that Mr. Skillman is doesn’t really see hardware as a priority in mobile design…

A cat-proof Linux-friendly netbook…?

This here is the Samsung NB30, a semi-ruggedized netbook with one of those new Pine Trail Atom processors. I bought one over the weekend as a cat-proof alternative to my aging Eee PC.

I like it so far, but there’s one big problem — I can’t get the WiFi radio to work with my favourite Linux distributions…

Nokia’s 2010 flagship is a lame duck.

CNET Australia broke the news that future high-end Nokias will run MeeGo exclusively. This is fantastic news. But openly admitting that the N8 is to be the company’s last flagship handset running Symbian is, IMHO, colossally stupid…

Nokia needs a MeeGo phone. Right now.

It’s an odd thing for yours truly to witness the Linux community, usually somewhat measured in their praise for any one thing, collectively wet themselves over Android. This isn’t at all a knock against Google’s mobile OS (or the Linux community, necessarily), but quite the opposite — for FLOSS phone users Android is their saviour from the iPhone.

And these are the people that Nokia needs to reach. Immediately…