Nokia - heading for the cold Atlantic waters?

If you are reading this post, you must have read what Mr. Elop of Nokia had "honestly" stated a few days ago about Nokia's current state of affairs. He compared the company to a burning rig and for life they had to take a plunge that could either kill them or miraculously rescue.
The plunge is to build devices for Windows Phone 7 platform. I had been hoping that Nokia would rather fork or create devices for Android. The strategy sounds just dangerous. In the 90s PC manufacturers such as IBM, Dell, HP etc stuck with Windows and made huge profits/sales. May be the same works for Nokia. But the markets and consumer mindset has changed drastically. During PC days consumers just wanted something cheap and easy to use. There weren't too many alternatives except for geeky or enthusiast OSs. But these days an average phone user wants more of everything. Also, Windows Phone OS does not seem to have the perfect application/developer/platform ecosystem as iOS or the Android. For me it seems that Nokia is heading for the cold waters.. Good luck!

Yay! CR 48 is here!

.. and I am blogging from it. The hardware seems alright. Getting a feel of the operating environment - called 'chrome OS'. So far, pretty snappy and looks good for internet addicts - especially if you use gmail, google docs, google reader, flikr, pandora, facebook and youtube like me :)
More reviews later.
And, yes the tracker website(in my previous post) showed that a CR 48 was being shipped to my area code! so the site seems to be working. However, there was no indication from Google whether they are sending anything my way.

Eagerly waiting for cr-48

OK, so what is Cr-48, if you are geek enough you would know that it is the name for google Chrome OS test laptop, that is being distributed to testers. I signed up, and I am eagerly waiting for mine. Well, I am not even sure if I would get one. However, this site claims to be the best possible tracker for UPS shipments of Cr-48s. This site shows that there is a pending shipment to my Zip code, with ETA of 12/20! and that is exciting. Something to get excited over the Christmas weekend. I am just waiting for some Christmas miracle to happen. :)