Nokia, who use to think that Linux and Open Source are okay, and who see themselves as fierce competitors to the Microsoft Smartphone, have now gone to bed with MS. While there is a Windows-sans-Mediaplayer in the pipeline, a WMP codec will be ported to a Nokia mobile platform. As a side note, Nokia presented a new phone (sans MWP, mind you), which contains just about everything i would need want from a phone (series60 platform, Bluetooth, EDGE, push-to-talk, usb2, toy camera/s), except for WLAN and a radio. It looks a bit dull, though.Motor-Ola took a different path and made a date with Jobs‘ boys (and girls) — the new E1060 will have support for iTunes (it already supports mpeg-4, wmv, wma, mp3 and RealPlayer — many beds conquered there, i see. Must be Valentine’s season).

And Trolltech has announced that twenty manufacturers are developing for QTopia, which, in layman’s terms, translates to Linux on the cell phone

Now Nokia mobile “smart” phones run on Symbian, which means that the WMP codec can be ported to the Motorola phones that also run Symbian (or was it the other way, since the Motorola phones already support Windows Media)… That is, except for the Motor-ola phones that run Linux. Where is this world going?

As for me, i would like a solid state sixty-plus-gig iPod-smellalike (that would play OGGs and sink photos straight from my camera). I would like a small but able telephone, a capable PDA, a worthy GPS, a (bluetooth) stereo headset for phone/music, and i would want everything to communicate in beautiful unison… and to be nontrivial to break. All this wouldn’t have to be integrated into one device. They could all live in pockets of a nice ScotteVest (bunny) with my Gerber thingamatool, moz repellant, ID cards and other miscellanea i get to carry around. Besides, if anyone made The One Final Gadget, no geek would buy another gadget ever, and the Gadget Industry would crumble. Not very sustainable.