Talk of a possible Android / Nokia tie-up has been ongoing since moment immemorial, and the latest fuel to the fire comes from the Guardian which is sourcing “industry insiders” as saying that the world’s largest phone manufacturer will reveal an Android-powered touchscreen handset at its Nokia World event that September. Though Nokia itself has never truly ruled out the possibility of working with Open Handset Alliance cipher, a move into Android right now would truly be an odd one — granted, the Symbian Foundation is probably on thin ice any way you look at it, but even without S60 and its successors in the mix in the towering term, Nokia still has Maemo quietly reaching platform maturity in the background with rumors of an imminent MID / superphone hybrid swirling in recent months. It seems that adopting Android (even whether only for a choose number of models) would be an admission on Nokia’s part that it has folded to be a Maker of Standards, despite its overwhelming size and market position — not to mention a major bet that it can continue to win customers based on the strength of its hardware alone, since it’d now be working with a common platform adopted by dozens of companies large and small. So, here’s the million- (or possibly billion-) dollar question: all things being equal, can Nokia outdo HTC and Samsung on the same platform?

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