The company will push out a patch

that won't be received cos the data doesn't work.

Enjoy famous Windows 3.1 & outdated, unreliable C++ engineering!

Hey, it's <MS>. They don't know how to write secure or reliable code -- witness the appalling engineering practices they teach in *every single* MSDN example.

Google enjoy elegant code & map-reduce, I like OO composition & the strategy pattern, Microsoft are stuck back in 1983 at the IF statement with a hell of C-structs and undiagnosable pointer errors.

Didn't you notice how their advertising promised 'snappy performance'?

Where Google and Apple run LLVM or JVM virtual-machine opcodes, giving a fairly reliable & secure system.. Microsoft by comparison has unleashed its most junior team of Windows 3.0 C++ hacks. And you will suffer :-(

Blue screen of death, enjoy it on your Windows Phone, malware, viruses, coming here! Step right right up.

You're making it wrong...

unlike certain other manufacturers...

Positive spin?

Reading the attempts by Nokia and its apologists to put a positive spin on this I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

"We shipped a phone with a show-stopping bug; we didn't bother testing it properly; we made an egregious schoolboy blunder. Better still, the phone is our flagship product and the future of the company may depend on its success or failure. A strong release was imperative. But we fouled up like never before.

And here were are, offering an instant rebate and a speedy fix to everyone who bought one! What a great company! Other companies could learn from this! Wow! Awesome!"

Nokia 'put people first'...

Which ironically enough is also the supporting slogan which MS is using heavily with their Window Phones.

Quite frankly I think this will blow over. Sure; its a nasty bug and one which shouldn't even have been there. But if you play your cards right, which I think Nokia is doing here, then you can even turn a possible major setback into a marketing strategy.

I don't like the design of the Lumia myself (prefer Samsung) but this is a recommendable action!

Perhaps by the time they release the Nokia Lumia 5000 (following the 950, 1000, 1050...) they'll actually have tested it before release!?

- My g/f has the Lumia 610 which fails on the most basic of functions like "end call" and has to be turned off if the phone call was more than a few minutes long. Nokia took at least 2 months to work out the fix then released it in India with "other areas coming as demand dictates" - it still not being offered to UK punters!

- Then there's the 800 which has serious battery life problems for many and has the above bug too although seems less frequent on that one. Would think so for a phone that can cost £500.

- Finally we come to the 900 which just fails completely at being a phone for a "small number of users". If it was a genuine small number they'd not be giving refunds and $100 so publically.

Oddly they do make good phones, just not good smart phones and whoever runs the testing lab needs hanging by painful bits outside in the middle of a Finnish Winter.

Having had a Lumia 800 for a few months, my conclusion is that it's actually pretty good hardware let down by the OS. I've experienced most of the bugs mentioned on the Nokia forums like the never ending call, poor battery life etc but they do seem to be gradually fixing these. What kills it for me is the small OS design issues that haven't been thought out properly. For example, not being able to set a static IP address on a wireless network - it's DHCP or bust which just seems a bit crap.

The 808 Pureview is Nokia's flagship product.

Not this (still rushed) abomination of a move to market with an OS that can't do shit all when compared to S^3.

Good on them!

Though I haven't owned a Nokia in years, I must say that their prompt action (over holidays too!) has to be applauded.

They didn't do an apple. They came clean, and are fixing the issue. Its more than can be said for others in the market.

Best of luck to them!

Small OS from Microsoft is worth twice that much!

A small OS from Microsoft? How much is it worth?

Twice nothing is still nothing.

How much will you pay me to use it? Seriously, the only reason I use ANYTHING associated with Microsoft is because someone is forcing me to. I cannot recall the last time I voluntarily bought anything Microsoft was selling. The ONLY good thing I can think of to say about Microsoft is that they have done a little good against the spammers on the upstream end.

Choose Wisely

When Elop joined Nokia, he effectively had the choice between the leading smartphone OS, Android, and the trailing one from his previous employer, the seventh generation attempt at a smartphone OS from Microsoft.

The fact that he chose the one that was falling off the bottom of the graph tells you all you need to know. To expect anything decent from this platform is futile.

too bad, they jumped to wrong ship which isn't sailing well like android or ios.

many rats with drown with it.