With The Platform Burning, Nokia Also Talked To RIM Before Jumping Into Redmond?s Arms

The battle of mobile ecosystems is now a three horse race: Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows Phone. Or so says Nokia CEO Stephen Elop now that the Finnish handset maker has jumped off of a burning platform into Redmond's arms. Conspicuous by their absence - in Elop's analysis - was RIM's BlackBerry or indeed the dark horse in the room, HP's webOS. They are both, of course, vertical platforms (as is iOS) so you'd be forgiven for thinking that licensing either was never a consideration. However, TechCrunch Europe has learned that Nokia did indeed explore a partnership with RIM, which would have seen Nokia smartphones running BlackBerry OS.

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