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Bonovox
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No of course not. HTC and Samsung just continue to make the odd Windows device. I think they must know Windows 7 is not doing so well right now so they would sell less handsets. Despite this i think Samsung and HTC will still do well with Android.
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skblakee
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Agreed! They may make the odd WM7 here and there but with Android commanding 44% of global phone sales I see no compelling reason for them to totally abandon ship.
Besides with Apple constantly harassing the likes of Samsung over patents I believe Samsung is all too happy for Google to get a leg up on Apple with patents especially if you consider the current blockage of European sales of the Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1.
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drad
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having happily ditched my SE Xperia for a Samsung Galaxy II, I would be tickled pink if the latter bought out the former. 
the way the NY Times is reporting it, the patent acquisition is probably the smaller part of the motivation for the Motorola buy. Google is going to go into handsets -- which they know is the future -- in a big way.
a Google PC operating system will be small potatoes by comparison.
(just to put some perspective on it: my Samsung Galaxy II is more powerful than the first 6 or 7 PC's that I've owned. and that's not to mention the specialty office computers that preceded the original Apple and PC.) |
S4k1s
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On 2011-08-17 02:01:35, drad wrote:
(just to put some perspective on it: my Samsung Galaxy II is more powerful than the first 6 or 7 PC's that I've owned. and that's not to mention the specialty office computers that preceded the original Apple and PC.)
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smclion102
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Its Obvious Google will start making nexus phones from moto after a year they will act like Apple now.. with maybe launching 2-3phone every quarter with every new OS update.
I guess this is where MS Windows Phone will start growing we mite see good Phones on WP OS also in another 6 months.
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skblakee
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I see nothing wrong or bad with Google having phones made by Motorola while others such as Samsung and  producing some of their own using Android OS. Symbian (R.I.P.) was on the Samsung Omnia i8910, Satio and the nokia X6 all had Symbian s60 v5 on them even though Nokia owned Symbian. Yet the Omnia i8910 did much better than the Satio and X6 and neither was owned by Nokia.
I see no reason for the other users of Android to be scared of the big G's purchase of Motorola.
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On 2011-08-17 02:01:35, drad wrote:
having happily ditched my SE Xperia for a Samsung Galaxy II, I would be tickled pink if the latter bought out the former.
the way the NY Times is reporting it, the patent acquisition is probably the smaller part of the motivation for the Motorola buy. Google is going to go into handsets -- which they know is the future -- in a big way.
a Google PC operating system will be small potatoes by comparison.
(just to put some perspective on it: my Samsung Galaxy II is more powerful than the first 6 or 7 PC's that I've owned. and that's not to mention the specialty office computers that preceded the original Apple and PC.)
My past 3 phones already surpassed my first computer by a mile. The specs were Pentium with MMX graphics at around 200+mHz and 32mb RAM with 5.2GB disk space, good enough for AutoCAD R13 to run on  My ex-W995 had 3 times the space, twice the memory and slightly better processing power
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Dups!
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On 2011-08-16 01:12:36, Arne Anka wrote:
On 2011-08-15 16:05:38, Dups! wrote:
The patents that Ericsson holds are worth a fortune for any manufacturer who decides to swallow them up.
Are you refering to SE or Ericsson ? Because SE may use patents owned by Ericsson and Sony, but I don't think they own that many themself and hence are probably not as actrative for acquisition. The mother company Ericsson on the other hand have lots of patents, but is most likely out of reach for any acquisition.
[ This Message was edited by: Arne Anka on 2011-08-16 00:18 ]
Ericsson, as written and not Sony Ericsson. I know Ericsson is a relatively stable and big company but with the likes of Apple growing this financially big and looking to strengthen its portfolio of patents to fight this dirty war they seem to be engaged in everybody with a substantial portfolio of patents is a possible target. Before someone says Ericsson aren't likely to be swallowed up may I remind you that a few years back nobody saw Motorola being taken over and nobody even thought of Nokia being a possible candidate for a takeover.
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I hope that comment about people confusing Ericsson for SE or the other way round wasn't meant for me cause I know the difference, I have been using Ericsson phones since the 90's way before the joint venture.
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Arne Anka
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On 2011-08-17 03:33:07, Dups! wrote:
Ericsson, as written and not Sony Ericsson. I know Ericsson is a relatively stable and big company but with the likes of Apple growing this financially big and looking to strengthen its portfolio of patents to fight this dirty war they seem to be engaged in everybody with a substantial portfolio of patents is a possible target. Before someone says Ericsson aren't likely to be swallowed up may I remind you that a few years back nobody saw Motorola being taken over and nobody even thought of Nokia being a possible candidate for a takeover.
But you seem to forget that Motorola was bleeding money for years before they finally had to give up, first their network division (sold to Nokia I believe) and now the mobile division. Nokia is still not there yet, but if they don't shape up soon they may follow the route of Motorola. Companies that are bought are usually either small or in bad shape and hence can be bought to an "attractive" price.
Ericsson is a completely different story at present time, not even comparable with Motorola.
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Dups!
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You didn't quite read what I wrote correct or maybe I didn't clarify it better but Motorola, as I stated, were a very profitable company about 6 years ago. Six years is not such a long time ago.
Nokia are a candidate for a takeover right now. I don't know what you mean that they are not there yet cause they are clearly in shambles at this stage.
Also, companies that are taken over are not ALWAYS small and in bad shape. There is what is termed hostile takeover whereby a company as big as it may be finds itself under serious 'attack' by a company that is financially better.
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