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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (34264)	8/22/2013 2:03:26 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Care to make a wager on that one? How about the price of a share of Nokia on said date? Since the end date of the deal isn't public, lets pick a date. End of 2014? End of 2015? You are so completely delusional on this one, that I'd love to take a few dollars from you. Of course I'd rather you would just STFU with this stupid pipe dream of yours. Nokia is not going Android. MS would buy them in a heartbeat before that would happen. Your incessant whining on this issue is unbelievably annoying. If your are holding the stock out of hope for such an eventuality, it is a lost, false hope.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (34264)	8/22/2013 2:04:08 PM
From: E_K_S	1 Recommendation Recommended By bruwin Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Why does Nokia have to wait for their MSFT contract to expire? Was it exclusive conditioned on not making any Android phones? Nokia missed the boat by not going w/ some Android variant. Even if they brought their excellent integrated camera technology to that platform, they would have had a significant lead in the Android market since neither Samsung and/or Apple provided any camera that really matched Nokia's products. In fact that was one of the reasons I bought an open version of the new Galaxy 4 Android phone. I paid $100.00 more for it because I got a 13 mega-pixel camera. Now I no longer need to upgrade for a few years and my next devise will be some variant of Ubuntu OS and/or Linux. The thought is that current multi core processor technology is now powerful enough to run all my desktop PC applications. Imagine a smartphone devise that also replaces the current desktop PC ! Do you really think you need Microsoft for this? Ubuntu Touch Preview Turns Heads At Mobile World Congress 2013 Ubuntu recently released an OS for a few Android devices like the Google Nexus 4,7, and 10. Sure, devices running the OS are limited at this point, but Ubuntu has big plans for the future The key for me (and many other desktop users) is to have a devise that replaces these very power hungry desktop computers (even my multi screen system) that either run native Ubuntu/Linux OS and/or services powered by "Cloud Apps" (ie. Schwab StreetSmartEdge) an in the cloud application run on a Citrix VM machine. So, Nokia must leapfrog the industry and provide a smartphone w/ a high end camera that can also replace the desktop. Low powered processors both Quad and Oct cores are available that can drive the video requirements of a multi screen and/or 50" LCD HD 1080P screen system(s). Dual-band wireless streaming can achieve all of this wirelessly streaming requirements and/or provide an HDMI docking platform w/ high end Bluetooth audio. The technologies are all there. I just do not understand why Nokia settles for a 4% market share w/ their Windows Lumina phone. We know how all those Microsoft tablets have done . . . a loser! That's my thought. I still hold a few of my NOK shares but sold most of them at $29.00/share years ago. EKS