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@jemuel


While you may well be right for individual users that purchase there devcies on a one by one basis either via there company or by themselves. At Corporate level where buying decisions are made for a whole company i promise you eye candy counts for very little compared to functionallity and stability. But as i said the Buisness sector isn't going to be the dominant force for smart phones much longer anyway IMO.

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[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2008-03-07 17:00 ]
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Posted: 2008-03-07 17:59:52
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@jemuel

At Corporate level where buying decisions are made for a whole company i promise you eye candy counts for very little compared to functionallity and stability. But as i said the Buisness sector isn't going to be the dominant force for smart phones much longer anyway IMO.

[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2008-03-07 17:00 ]
totally agree with you on that... but what's gonna be the dominant force for smartphones then? considering you meant average users are gonna be the next big market for smartphones, then eye candy's gonna be much more important. example is the iphone. despite its very restricted functions(no bluetooth file transfer, no mms, can't have mp3s as ringtones), pepole still buy that stuff, mostly because of the UI.
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[ This Message was edited by: jemuel on 2008-03-08 02:10 ]
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Posted: 2008-03-08 03:09:54
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yeah, but those ppl doesnt have many expectations imo. they take it cos its sg different or cos they like ipods, o whatever, but thats it imo.

symbian os and wm system are the 2 ones, which has real support and good feedbeack. uiq fans are in the second place, se has got still good chances in this "war". any other os else doesnt count for me, samsung and any other toy factories arent worth to mention imo
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Posted: 2008-03-08 03:20:41
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never liked samsung either. they concentrate the looks on the outside but not on the inside. their OS is crap. ULTRA's UI hasn't change a lot since the first samsung color screen phone IMO.
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Posted: 2008-03-08 03:32:58
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your forgetting openmoko
which i think will be the most impressive of them all - espcially since its opensource too,,, LINUX FOR THE WIN!:D
view the link below started by axxxr
and ended by me with additional new links to openmoko
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=140002#post2245184
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Posted: 2008-03-08 07:55:44
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toy factories? you know there are other platforms than smartphones. calling the 2nd largest manufacturer a toy factory, there must be a good reason for that.
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Posted: 2008-03-08 08:29:27
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@jemuel

I have mentioned many times before the shift in usage of smart phones IMO is going to be for Multimedia use, with the rise of Social Networking, IM, and Music and Video and all that Web 2.0 will deliver.

If you look at Nokia the N series Multimedia smart phones are alreday outselling the E Series, i am pretty sure the S60 Touch UI is going to be seen on Multimedia smart phones and am not even sure it will ever expand to to the Buisness devices. This doesn't mean that these devices will be devoid of all and any Buisness functionality as obviously they won't. They will all still have E-Mail capability and Document readers but they will geared and much more entertainment focused.

By the end of this year we will see if i am right or not, but for those that don't get the iPhone it is not a business device and IMO was never meant to be one. Love it or hate no one can really disagree that what it does it does very well, possibly the best Web and Video experience currently available.

Marc

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Posted: 2008-03-08 16:16:38
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true.... BIG misconception about phones: if it's touchscreen, it's a smartphone.

aside from it being from apple, the touchscreen concept raised consumer's expectations much higher. hardwarewise, iphone has a potential on being a smartphone considering its high processor speed and high ram.
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Posted: 2008-03-08 16:30:30
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In terms of "attractiveness" (which may not mean functional or ease of use ) Iphone UI just cannot be beaten at the moment or in 2008. Certainly not by the X1 with its frankenstein-type screwed on panels or S60 Touch which has to carry the "backward compatible to S60 one hand use" baggage.

Android may have a chance to upstage Iphone but I doubt WM70 will due to fact it has to cater to many device configurations (like the S60 Touch). Android and WM7 will also be at a disadvantage as the one who made the OS does not make the hardware like Apple Iphone.



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Posted: 2008-03-09 05:14:00
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Too early to judge X1's UI imo

You have just seen a little portion of X1's entire UI. X1's UI has yet another UI design which is called the carousel interface (you saw it on ASUS ZX1 don't you? ) and i don't think SE UI division won't touch the it's Windows OS so as to have the same level of user experience as with their Updated UIQ 3/A200 UI. And you may call it frankenstein but i wonder what would you say if you have used the UI(that's when if ever you would dare to try and use it )

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Posted: 2008-03-10 07:52:12
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