Nokia Siemens To Buy Motorola Wireless Gear Unit

[Project-79]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100719/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_motorola_wireless_networks

If I understand this correctly (correct if I’m wrong), Nokia will own Motorola (the phone part at least). If that’s true, then eventually all Droid phones will be converted from Android OS to Symbian OS (and obviously have a name change).

Again, correct me if I’m wrong.

 

[smithrh]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100719/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_motorola_wireless_networks

If I understand this correctly (correct if I’m wrong), Nokia will own Motorola (the phone part at least). If that’s true, then eventually all Droid phones will be converted from Android OS to Symbian OS (and obviously have a name change).

Again, correct me if I’m wrong.

Has nothing to do with phones at all. It's not Nokia buying a part of Motorola, it's Nokia-Siemens Networks buying the Networks part of Motorola.

 

[sciwizam]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100719/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_motorola_wireless_networks

If I understand this correctly (correct if I’m wrong), Nokia will own Motorola (the phone part at least). If that’s true, then eventually all Droid phones will be converted from Android OS to Symbian OS (and obviously have a name change).

Again, correct me if I’m wrong.

Nokia is ditching Symbian, gonna use Meego in collaboration with Intel.

 

[jfanning]

Nokia is ditching Symbian, gonna use Meego in collaboration with Intel.

Nokia isn't ditching Symbian, they will be using Symbian on some phones, and Meego on others.

 

[maflynn]

If that’s true, then eventually all Droid phones will be converted from Android OS to Symbian OS (and obviously have a name change).

Moto isn't selling their cell phone business to Nokia but the backbone infrastructure components needed to make cell phones work

The division that is being sold supplies wireless carriers such as Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. with the equipment they need to connect to cell phones. It's not a big player in an industry dominated by LM Ericsson AB and Alcatel-Lucent SA, but it does have valuable relationships with U.S. and Japanese carriers that Nokia Siemens hopes to exploit..