Overheard: “Nokia Will Never Release An Android Handset”

At the Finnish phonemaker’s booth, I overheard a Nokia rep tell someone definitively that Nokia “will never release an Android handset”. He added, “You can quote me on that”, which is good, because I am!

Nokia’s aging Symbian S60 OS isn’t maturing so well, as seen on their N97 handset, and though they’ve made some positive strides with Maemo, it sounds like they might be limiting themselves to those two OSes — at least until the market forces them elsewhere.