Nokia Goes All In with Windows Mobile 7: What Do You Think?

Is this their deathbed or the future of their success?

You’ve no doubt heard about Nokia’s ‘Star Trek First Contact” strategy over the past weeks with the superphone company ditching their Symbian and MeeGo operating systems and going “all-in” with Microsoft and adopting their Windows Phone 7 OS to gain back their market share in the world market.

This is past “game changing” this is “life changing” – Nokia’s move decimates jobs, shakes up worldwide partnerships and erupts the playing field for smartphone OS dominance – for better or worse – forever. One thing for sure, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is pulling some serious Jean-Luc Picard manuevers and he will be followed closely to see if his plan against the Borg other smartphone makers was the right one.

Now that you’ve no doubt been involved in many debates yourselves we want to hear what your thoughts on this: Is the iPhone doomed? Is Android over? Or has Nokia signed its own suicide note?

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The Neonpunch Top 10 Most Anticipated Gadgets of 2011

Here’s our list of the most coveted upcoming gadgets.

There are so many Best of 2010 lists already out at other blogs we’ve decided to forego that and look forward.

Unlike the movie industry the gadget world holds their secrets closer to their vests. But there are some things we know will be coming out in 2011 and we wanted to brace our wallets, and yours, for them.

With the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) just around the corner we thought we’d make a list of predictions for 2011. While we may not know the actual final names of these products, we know they are coming and we want them, starting with the Motorola BuzzDroid:

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Be One the First 400 to ‘Kinect’ with the Microsoft Xbox 360 in Hong Kong

Special pre-sale is happening in City Plaza.

If you are like us and cannot wait to get your hand on the motion controller for the Xbox 360 called the Kinect – and if you are fanboy enough you can obtain bragging rights over the rest of us.

Microsoft is selling 400 special Kinect bundles hours ahead of the official launch. So if you want to be the first to connect with Kinect you’re going to want to get yourself down to Tai Koo Shing in the late afternoon the day before the launch.

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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 Beta in Hong Kong

Microsoft plays catch-up but comes out swinging!

For something as big as major new browser from Microsoft to be launched at the Philia Lounge in Central seemed a bit anti-climatic.

Sure, the US had the launch 12 hours ahead of Hong Kong but it seems like the key point of a web browser is to show off the web, um, online – and not necessarily in person? It seems that Microsoft wanted to hold an event just to show off to the press how fast their new Internet Explorer 9 could load OpenRice.com.

Ironic Explorer, no?

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Microsoft Office: Mac 2011 Shipping in October

Which office suite do you use the most?

Finally a new version of Microsoft Office is coming out for the Mac in a couple of months. If you buy the current Office package now you can upgrade to this new version for free. The prices are quite reasonable as compared to what they used to charge for Office but still way more than iWork, Open Office and Google Docs.

So if you or your company lives within Microsoft and the only way you can use a Mac is if you succumb to using Office, we can think of worse deaths but we’re interested to find out which office suite you use and if these new features for Office: Mac 2011 will get you to buy it?

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