I just can't see why Nokia don't even test the water with an Android phone. Symbian has no weight behind it, arguably it never really did as it's heyday was a time smartphones remained new and quite niche. It's now been blown out of the water. I mean, I go back to the N97. It's a good phone, has a lot of capability and an arseload of flaws... but for its OS, it's completely wiped over the floor by the HTC Hero, which is of a similar age. It's old hat, not pretty, not terribly robust... etc etc.
Would it not be better for them to, at the very least, look to bring out a decent crack at an Android phone. I daresay Android would embrace having another big hitter on board, and it's undeniable that Nokia can whack out a good, well designed, well featured phone, and they've that weight of respect behind them that not only would probably let them get that say in Android, but would probably grab them a considerable customer interest as well. I'd certainly be interested, very interested.
As for Meego... well... I try to keep abreast of tech news and I've barely heard of it. In a market that has Android booming, and the iPhone remaining a phenomenon, can you really come into the market with a new OS that isn't likely to do anything Android can't and is starting about 4 steps behind with no publicity or weight of public interest behind it?
It just seems foolish to me. Even more bizarrely, Nokia appear to practivally competing with themselves, or simply accepting that Symbian isn't good enough. They've said that Symbian will start to take a much greater background role and their top of the range handsets will support Meego in the future. Surely it would make more sense to just cut the losses on Symbian full stop, and probably Meego as well, and just put the weight behind Android - have top of the range featured phones having top of the Android range software rather than the Meegi punt, and reign Androids abilities for the lower spec stuff they were intending for Symbians future.
They'd be giving up on an investment but, imo at least, that investment is toxic.