Among the biggest news to come out of CommunicAsia was the launch of the Nokia N9 smartphone. And it’s a pretty big deal, considering that Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop took the time out to unveil it in Singapore. Like Elop, the N9 is an opinion-dividing device.

Nokia dropped a bomb on Friday as chief executive Stephen Elop announced an alliance with Microsoft to adopt Windows Phone 7 as its smartphone platform of choice. It hasn’t dropped Symbian and Meego altogether but the two will become open source platforms and the company will continue to ship Symbian devices for the remainder of Read the full article…