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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
I suspect WP7 (or 7.5 etc) will start taking a bigger share within the next year.
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I'm eager to see what happens when nokia gets back in the game. I never bought their smartphones, but I always liked that they experimented with form factors. I'm even less likely to buy WP7 from them, but maybe their influence will encourage everyone to try different things. My tilting slider (only nokia and HTC have one, to my knowledge) is now a form factor I refuse to do without, even though I wasn't super excited about the tilt when I bought it.
That said, I'm not as optimistic about nokia's influence as most of the projections I've seen are. Over the past 6 months, a lot of prognosticators have been strongly assuming WP7 would take all of the current and past nokia marketshare within a couple of years, as if by magic. I wouldn't doubt that if it were 2 years ago, but it's not. A lot has happened within the nokia brand and without. I wouldn't put a comeback past them, but I'm not putting money on it either.