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TechCrunch. Mashable | All That\'s New on the Web. Techmeme. Wired News. Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortun. Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents. Communities Dominate Brands. Many have asked me to give an analysis of what potential the Nokia X smartphones on Android could have. To understand the potential we need some historical context. What has transpired, what has been tried, when were options considered and what have Nokia customers been doing. What kind of numbers are out there in terms of existing users and their loyalty, etc. This is a longer article (5,500 words - would be about half a chapter in one of my hardcover books) but it is detailed and tries to be reasonably comprehensive. We know lots of things now about the Windows Phone project at Nokia, in the aftermath of Elop’s removal from post of Nokia CEO and the sale of Nokia’s total handset division to Microsoft.

To be clear, Elop did not kill Symbian. So. We know now that Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila had deliberately taken a ‘hands-off’ approach to the new CEO, giving him a lot of latitude. Now we know it was a total failure. Year 2011 was an annus horribilis for Nokia handsets. Now. Ok. First. Official Google Blog. Wired News.