Defensive move from NOKIA?

At Mobile World Congress wireless fair in Barcelona, NOKIA announced to integrate ‘Google Search’ on its handsets. Google search would at first be added to selected phones and markets and later to some mass-market models in more than 100 countries, the companies (NOKIA & Google) said.  A few NOKIA handsets already support Google owned another application ‘YouTube’.

In my opinion NOKIA is on defense now in the light of development such as - 1. Android commercial launch in mid 2008 2. Google launching a rival to NOKIA’s S60 platform later this year. 3. Google’s Android turning into a reality at Mobile World Congress where Android based handset prototypes were launched.

NOKIA will accept Android or not remains to be seen, however, this announcement clearly suggests that NOKIA is on a backfoot now.