The way Samsung is doing it is what Nokia should have done.
Samsung released state of the art hardware; Samsung Galaxy S3. They they practically let users to choose what OS they want to run it with: Android, WP8 or Tizen:
Seems they'll market it as different products, though, so almost but not quite the same as I suggested in my signature link.
Article linked by Tomi on twitter says the combined shares of Nokia is now worth less than the assets. Basically buying and killing Nokia is now directly profitable.
But there is that restricting contract between Nokia and Microsoft, which includes poison pills to the potential buyer. Elop and MS played its cards smart and Nokia general board was sleeping.
Growth of this speed has only been seen in one other market so far: Nokia's backyard of Finland. Reports also indicate that WP is gaining tracktion in Russia too.
Not surprised. i.e countries Nokia were strong in already, but are now falling behind in. Symbian outsold all others in these countries too but Nokia are still seeing a decrease in sales in these regions and have been overtaken by Samsung in China. Nothing to see here.
Seriously 