Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

We'll know soon enough, but rolling out Windows Phone handsets wouldn't really encourage confidence either as a stopgap measure ("Here are some of our phone - or some random minor vendor's phones with Nokia stamped on them - with Windows Phone hastily ported to them!") or as a strategic shift ("Forget that alliance with Intel and AMD, it's Microsoft all the way now!"), and would not be very conducive to getting a coherent set of products out the door any more quickly. Indeed, for more than a stopgap measure (which would send a message to customers that they should buy stuff purely for the Nokia logo on it), retooling for Windows Phone would surely push back the company's response to the competition.

Although the guy says that Nokia didn't miss any trends - which may be true - I think it's disingenuous to consider whether they were aware of them without considering whether they "executed" on them, which is probably the company's real problem if one looks at the examples he gives: N-Gage, Internet connectivity, application stores, and so on. The latter one, with all the history of not even being able to deploy an application for Symbian without messing around with certificates and signing, doesn't really confer any bragging rights on Nokia.

But I think he's right on other matters, and I guess we should all be reading his blog tomorrow to see what he has to say then.

Engadget have never liked Nokia. The only company Engadget likes is Apple.