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Nokia's Vanjoki: Android is like pissing your pants to keep warm

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Nokia's Vanjoki: Android is like pissing your pants to keep warm
Outgoing or not, Nokia's smartphone head Anssi Vanjoki is seeing out his final days at the firm in a committed fashion.

At least, that's according to a quote attributed to Vanjoki by the Financial Times.

The paper claims he compared the industry's current backing of Android to Finnish boys who pee in their pants in the winter to keep themselves warm – the assertion being that the short term gained offered by Google's platform will eventually lead to an even worse predicament.

The quote is cited in a piece looking at whether Nokia should combine its prowess for solid hardware with Android's expanding userbase.

Anti-AndroidWhile UBS believes Nokia could cut is annual spending on R&D by around €1 billion a year if it adopted Android, it's believed the firm would only ever consider it as a temporary move.

Seemingly backing up Vanjoki's viewpoint, analysts believe the decline Nokia has suffered in recent years would accelerate once the market had acclimatised to its new position.

Nokia would essentially be reduced to nothing more than another OEM offering up Android on near identical handsets. Any sense of differentiation between the firm and its Asian rivals would be lost in an instant, the company scrapping for market share with fewer weapons in its arsenal as a result.

Instead, Nokia is set to push it new line up of smartphones – which include the Symbian^3 powered N8 – as a credible rival to Android in the run up to Christmas.

It's also become clear than even with Symbian^4 on the schedule, it's Nokia and Intel's joint venture MeeGo - first devices due 2011 - that the company's longterm profitability hangs on. 

[source: Financial Times]

With a fine eye for detail, Keith Andrew is fuelled by strong coffee, Kylie Minogue and the shapely curve of a san serif font.