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On 2009-10-16 00:26:58, carkitter wrote:
The good thing about Motorola and
is that they seem to be on the correct path with new touchscreen devices - the Cliq/DECT and Rachael respectively. And guess what? Those devices are running Google Android!
There's a lesson in there somewhere for Nokia...
And Microsoft.
Oh yeah, Motorola look to be taking huge strides towards getting back on track, finally. And I'm glad, they are one of the originals, if not the original. Nokia looks to be going down the Motorola path though, and we've all seen how long it takes to get to the end of that path.
Really love the look of the Cliq.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 00:33:05
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The new Motorola Android phone is out here on Orange. I would like to see Motorola make a comeback and that phone ticks all the right boxes.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 00:36:00
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IMO its too early to say NOKIA is going down a certain path, the N97 and 5800 are not their only touchscreens, theres the 5530xm which is out, 5230, and N97-Mini both are being released soon, X6 and N900 Maemo. The only devices i can think of that resembles N95 are the N85 & N86. I personaly wish they would release more S60v3 non-touch phones like N86.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 05:11:58
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Their smartphone market share fell to 35%.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 07:00:01
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What about s40 touch screen i aint seen anything like that yet. Its a good simple easy to use menu and would be popular with the mass market as are their s40 candybar handsets. Strange they have not done that yet.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 10:10:00
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On 2009-10-16 10:10:00, Bonovox wrote:
What about s40 touch screen i aint seen anything like that yet. Its a good simple easy to use menu and would be popular with the mass market as are their s40 candybar handsets. Strange they have not done that yet.
NOKIA do make Touch S40 phones, but they are exclusively for the Chinese market. Here they are:
3208c:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_3208c-2920.php
6208c:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6208c-2621.php
I have no idea why they keep them for Chinese market
realy odd.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 13:38:35
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That is extremely wierd considering Nokia have had some of if not most of their biggest selling phones based on that platform here in the UK. Why do phone companies do things towards the opposite way of trends? Well some do sometimes not in the case of LG or Samsung. I do still like s40 if i am honest. When i had my old Nokia 6303 well its not old but anyway i downloaded a theme from Zedge which changed the s40 boring menu icons to Sony Ericsson icons which brightened it up. Its a good menu system just needs some life breathed into how it looks.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 13:46:00
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Nokia have probably reached the state where you can't improve the S40 UI much more before it collopses.
I'm just eager to know if Nokia will keep supporting Symbian Foundation and will make high end handsets with that OS or if they have decided to limit it to mid/low end?
If one company can make a comeback with bang, it certainly is Nokia.
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Posted: 2009-10-16 14:47:48
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What i mean regarding s40 is just spruce it up with nicer graphical icons like the SonyEricsson menus. S40 is good but its a touch bland and boring and also they need to support multi tasking with it. Although you can do quite a few things at once with it but not everything. Are Nokia not going down the Android route? Just looked at them Chinese touch screen Nokia phones. Why such small touch screens? 2.4 inches is too small
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Posted: 2009-10-16 16:07:00
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On 2009-10-16 16:07:00, Bonovox wrote:
...Are Nokia not going down the Android route?...
No. They've put all their eggs in the Symbian basket.
They've invested heavily in making Symbian Foundation a viable open source alternative to Android.
Where as Nokia used to see themselves as competitors to Microsoft in the smartphone market, they are now working with Microsoft (signed a deal to use Office Mobile 2010) to combat the threat from upstarts Google and Apple.
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Posted: 2009-10-27 12:29:21
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