I’ll shock quite a few people here I’m sure, but I don’t see the major issue with testing the waters of another mobile OS with the Lumia hardware. I know it sounds nuts to consider Microsoft releasing a competitors OS on a piece of hardware, but honestly, Microsoft makes more from Android at this moment than they do from Windows Phone.
That said, a Lumia 500-series device with a stripped down version of Android might be fun to use for a while. Emerging markets will snap this up in a hurry if they are able to run it out there for under $50 US. Nokia and Microsoft aren’t going after the market share that Windows Phone isn’t gaining in here, they are going after the bleeding ‘feature phone’ market that the Asha and Symbian devices in the past are vacating.
The Asha 501 is a decent device, but they just haven’t had the traction needed to keep the MeeGo/Symbian/Asha platform running. Maybe a lower end Android phone could stop the bleeding in the feature phone market that is destroying their stronghold as a major phone manufacturer. The bottom line is that Nokia still makes some of the best devices on the planet. It would be crazy not to send an emerging market device out with a clean OS to see if they can stop that bleeding before it’s too late.
That’s just my 2 cents on the topic, but feel free to send and email or comment below with your thoughts.
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