{"id":31938,"date":"2011-08-18T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T09:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31938"},"modified":"2011-08-18T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T09:24:12","slug":"nokia-ceo-warns-android-phone-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/31938-nokia-ceo-warns-android-phone-makers.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia CEO warns Android phone makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314603-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> is making use of Windows Phone 7 for future handsets, Nokia CEO <a title=\"Stephen Elop\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/354658-Stephen-Elop\">Stephen Elop<\/a> had some words of warning for rival manufacturers like Samsung and HTC that make use of the Android OS after <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> bid to purchase <a title=\"Motorola\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211039-Motorola\">Motorola<\/a> Mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a seminar in Helsinki, Elop said, \u201cIf I happened to be someone who was an Android manufacturer or an operator, or anyone with a stake in that environment, I would be picking up my phone and calling certain executives at Google and say &#8216;I see signs of danger ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elop\u2019s speech at the seminar went on to suggest that the logic behind choosing <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> Windows Phone 7 over Android is for long term stability, though the Nokia CEO refrained from explicitly stating as much.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Reuters news agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/17\/us-nokia-google-motorola-idUSTRE77G45F20110817\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia\u2019s CEO has warned Android phone makers that Google\u2019s deal to buy Motorola mobility should set off alarm bells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,167,123,943,653,865],"class_list":["post-31938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-motorola","tag-nokia","tag-stephen-elop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31940,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions\/31940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}