Nokia and Microsoft form partnership

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by McBeck

I mean the operating system. The developed the Symbian^3 for smartphones. Was delayed several times and then finally launched with the N8. This was no more than a few months ago.
The Nokia HW should be fine - its just the platform thats lacking

I have only one real issue with the phone and it deals with the qwerty keyboard. The phone needs to rotate to use the slider keyboard on the LG Quantum. Quite a few applications do not support the rotation of the screen when the phone is rotated for keyboard usage. I'm sure it is a simple fix and the developers of Windows 7 Mobile have to address this small but non-deal breaker problem. For the most part, the screen for texting rotates when the keyboard is out and that is good. My wife is the texting queen of the US. She needs a qwerty keyboard.

I have a a lot of apps on my Android operating system and truthfully I use only less than a handful with any regularity. These same apps are offered with Windows Mobile 7. I think the OS is solid and will grow.