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2010-11-09 , 11:51
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Originally Posted by johnel View Post
Nokia have also decided to take Symbian development back in-house and out of open-source development - Nokia Takes Over Symbian Development

Effectively Nokia are removing themselves from the high-end smartphone market and continuing to be a "budget" handset maker.

That's the problem with Symbian - its a low resource OS perfect for low-spec phones but people are demanding more from it.

My partner has a Nokia 5800 and her biggest criticism is the web browser sucks and she wants somethng more akin to Android or Windows Mobile 7.

There goes another pesky Nokia customer.

Maybe thats the plan with MeeGo - "As a Nokia customer MeeGo elsewhere"
Like i already said and every Nokia exec have been saying for past year MeeGo is the high end. Symbian is low resource OS where they can drive costs down and get largest user base for Qt. Problem of course is that there's no MeeGo phone out there yet.

If you have been following the news there's no Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 anymore. There will be Symbian that starts from S^3 and phones will get continues updates towards the Qt UI.

First update will be early next year for all S^3 devices. Portrait QWERTY, new browser, split screen input and 46 other changes. Arrives early 2011 for new and existing devices. The new browser beta has been seen on youtube but it's taken down by Nokia. Thought this being internet i'm sure it's somewhere.

 

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2010-11-09 , 11:57
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Originally Posted by vivmak View Post
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/no...mbian-platform
this article does not say at all that "symbian is the only future plan".
it says Qt is the future plan, and that all work has concentrated on this Framework.

and, guess what, it's also the main framework used in MeeGo.
hence it's quite the opposite, the article reaffirms Nokia's commitment to Qt and cross platform compatibility.
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2010-11-09 , 12:03
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Originally Posted by SubCore View Post
this article does not say at all that "symbian is the only future plan".
it says Qt is the future plan, and that all work has concentrated on this Framework.

and, guess what, it's also the main framework used in MeeGo.
hence it's quite the opposite, the article reaffirms Nokia's commitment to Qt and cross platform compatibility.
Thank you. There's somebody else that gets this. I mean it's Nokia's headline for this news press release...
Nokia further refines development strategy to unify environments for Symbian and MeeGo

http://press.nokia.com/PR/201010/1453894_5.html
 

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2010-11-09 , 12:16
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Symbian has its place but if Nokia trys to push Symbian towards high-end devices like N8 (by todays standards a mid-range smartphone) then they will fail miserably - people just expect more.

If Nokia want to continue with Symbian then they had better start beefing up their Symbian applications - e.g. a decent QT-based web browser for a start. Then using their "cross-platform" advantage will be able to upsell users to high-end Nokia smartphones (e.g. Meego-based - if it becomes more than vapourware).

The question is are Nokia smart enough to do this?
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2010-11-09 , 12:17
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Press releases and advertisements should not be treated like whitepapers..
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2010-11-09 , 15:55
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Originally Posted by Biges View Post
Eh, maybe Nokia should just face the truth, drop Symbian and start using Android for its devices, make a nice Symbian-like UI for it
Maybe you should understand what you're talking about. Symbian is the OS, S60vX is the UI. Most people couldn't care less about what OS something runs - as long as the UI looks pretty and they can run the apps they want then they're happy. Nokia's problem is that they haven't really updated the UI over the years and in the course of adding touch support to it they have done it in bits and pieces making the whole an incoherent mess. And you think putting this messy UI on an android phone will help sales?
 
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2010-11-09 , 18:42
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Originally Posted by Rugoz View Post
Oh god, not that childish crap again.
It is really strange how attached people become, not only to their phone, but even to a manufacturer.

Get the phone you want, be it Nokia, Apple, HTC or whatever. If you get the phone you want (not OS, not a manufacturer, not a designer), you will have largest chanse of being satisfied with your choice. But rest assure. Symbian is also high end. The E7 will cost more than the N9. Savander has no clue, he is still living in the past when Nokias ultimate aim was world domination and not making good phones.
 
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if nokias future is symbian then my future is any other phone...
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. The E7 will cost more than the N9. Savander has no clue, he is still living in the past when Nokias ultimate aim was world domination and not making good phones.

Ehh, intresting.... where can I get this info about the price of a product not yet officially announced :-S
 

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So N900 has no future?

"There ain't no future in the front" - Tupak
 
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