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Bye Bye Symbian as Nokia and Microsoft form new strategic alliance

Nokia and Microsoft have announced plans that will see a

broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem

in effect stating that new Nokia smartphones will run on the Windows Phone 7 operating platform and not the Symbian or MeeGo platforms Nokia have been favouring to date.

Have Nokia jumped out of the frying pan into the fire? The Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop refered to Nokia standing on a “burning platform” only days ago and indeed Nokia’s share of the smartphone market fell from 38% to 28% in 2010, according to monitoring firm IDC.

But the Microsoft platform was the worst performing in a similar period. So can a meeting of these two companies produce a product to rival Google Android and Apple iPhone?

There are no product announcements to coincide with this news, so consumers will have to wait and see what new devices will be brought to market this year.

Here is a bit more from the press release:

There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them.

There will be challenges. We will overcome them.

Success requires speed. We will be swift.

Will they be swift enough though?

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