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Hope you all had a good weekend.
My 5800 smells of champagne and hubbly after a friend of mine decided she would rather shower me with it than drink it. All seems to be working fine though.
We almost spent the nite in jail for driving under the influence, never again,lesson learnt, a very sobering experience,literaly.

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Posted: 2010-01-31 11:00:18
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Lets hope this is the start of something good.I'm cheering for them silently from the sidelines.

http://www.gsmarena.com/motor[....]e_getting_better-news-1417.php
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Posted: 2010-02-01 17:50:41
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@ Gucci:
LOL, those parties n' stuff that you seem to frequent sound quite legendary. At least the 5800 is still working..and hopefully not too sticky, LOL.

@ Hobbster:

Yeah good on them. I'm not the world's biggest Moto fan, but competition, as we know, is always a good thing. I wish them well.
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Posted: 2010-02-01 19:18:49
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LMAO Wanqs.Ya it realy was a nasty site, this phone is a real finger print magnet,took a damp cloth and whiped it. yep they get real crazy,and they are going to be a lot more this year, dum dum dum dummm.lol
All
Holiday is finaly over, lectures begin tomorrow, i think next time i get a holiday this long i should get a job lol, a month is enough,but 3 is just overkill.
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Posted: 2010-02-01 20:57:48
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Taken from GSMArena today:

'Symbian^3 OS and a Maemo 6 device coming later this year

According to the Symbian numbering scheme we're at Symbian^1 now, but we won't see ^2 at all - Nokia is jumping straight to Symbian^3. Maemo 6 is coming later this year with at least one new device running it.

Symbian S60 5th edition or Symbian^1 is the OS powering the touch phones from Nokia - from the Nokia N97 flagship to the entry level Nokia 5230. The next version - Symbian^2 - however has been dropped in favor of Symbian^3.

Symbian^3 is expected to come out in the third quarter of 2010. For now it's not clear if older devices will be compatible with the new OS, which will feature multi-touch gestures. We will also be seeing Symbian^4 in late 2010 or early 2011.

Maemo is also getting an update - Maemo 6 is just around the corner (the Nokia N900 runs Maemo 5). Maemo 6 is expected in the second half of 2010, but more importantly there are plans to launch new products based on Maemo 6 - yep, the Nokia N920 could well be on its way. And the use of plural in "products" gives us hope of there being more than one Maemo device coming out this year, despite the rumors to the contrary.

Nokia expects that Symbian devices will overtake S40 devices by 2011 - 55% vs. 35% - and Maemo devices will be 10% of all devices shipped.'


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Posted: 2010-02-02 19:11:47
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And also from gsmarena a offering from sony ericsson called Aspen.what do you think? me,nothing i'm afraid.



looks nice,runs windows,but doesnt do it for me.maybe i'm just over phones and nothing can get me salivating like i used to.not even maemo.

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Posted: 2010-02-02 19:27:33
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@HOBBS: That new Aspen is like Jacob Zuma only neutered by a small screen, which takes a way from the touchscreen. Another vanilla phone for corporate types who stubbornly refuse the amorous advances of both RIM and Nokia.

Today I took my E66 into Vodacare @ Century City for repairs to the built-in memory card reader...hopefully I get it back in no time.

Wanted to get a new (cheap) phone but RICA regulations have made buying a phone without an ID and proof of address virtually impossible. So now I'm without a phone coz Vodacare don't have any crappy loan phones.

Comes to think, I should've taken up that offer from Cell C.
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Posted: 2010-02-02 20:42:33
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Taken from The Register:

'Nokia slashes prices to up market share ante

Rolls up sleeves for imminent manufacturer slugfest

After a year almost in the shadows, Nokia is back in the cellphone limelight and is showing its aggressive face to those seeking its crown.

It has already thrown down the gauntlet to Google with its free mapping and navigation promise, a move that is already shaking up the personal navigation space. In the first weeks of this year, it has also cut prices on its mass market phones and plans heavy advertising behind key media devices like the latest X6 music handset.

With its eyes on Samsung's leap in market share in the last quarter, Nokia seems to be gearing up for a price war, having reportedly addressed some of the rare inefficiencies that were creeping into its mighty supply chain in mid-2009. It cut prices across its portfolio last week, making its 5230 the cheapest Symbian device on the market and going head-to-head with Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson in the midrange.

Nokia generally reduces prices across its range a few times a year as it introduces new models and adjusts to changes in demand, but this was particularly stringent. Reuters news agency reports that prices were slashed by as much as 10% on a broad basis.

The 5230 is now retailing for €170 ($239) unlocked, or as little as $110 on pay-as-you-go, and its wholesale price is below €120. This makes it hugely competitive in developing economies and in the expected boom area for early 2010 - the affordable open OS handset. This rises in importance as first-time smartphone users and the youth market shift away from featurephones.

The 5230 is typical of the breed of phones targeting this space. It has the same 3.2-inch touchscreen as the popular 5800 music smartphone, and many of the same features, but skimps on a few areas, such as memory, to keep the cost down. It incorporates GPS and Ovi Maps, including turn-by-turn navigation and 3D landmarks, and Symbian S60 5th Edition.

Nokia needs to leverage its huge economies of scale to ensure that pushing smartphone capabilities into the mainstream does not impact its margins disastrously. In the fourth quarter of last year, the average wholesale price of its smartphones dipped from €190 in Q309 to €186.

This will mean keeping its higher margin models desirable, which may entail higher advertising spend in the short term, one executive agreed last week. For instance, Nokia plans to spend "multiple millions of euros" in several key European markets, including the UK, to support the new 16Gb iteration of its X6 phone, and pitch the handset far more directly against the iPhone.

The new device will ship on February 24 and boasts the biggest marketing budget ever for a single product Nokia release, according to Marketing Week.'

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Posted: 2010-02-02 20:48:09
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ROLMAO!!! The X6 is an over-priced, slightly updated version of the 5800XM...which is only selling like hot cakes because Nokia have dramatically reduced prices and the networks are giving them away to whoever feels like wearing a two year ball-and-chain around their ankles.

But even with all that negativity, I have to concede that Nokia still make good phones even when they were rushed intoi releasing S60v5 to compete against the iPhone. That battle has been lost and like the article says, Nokia will have to cut prices on the mid to lower-end to justify some of the vanity priojects like Maemo. Nokia's newest platform won't find immediate traction amongst consumers and networks but could become a real threat to the likes of the iPhone when leveraged against available apps in the Ovi Store, speaking of which is still very disappointing. But Ovi Maps rock!!
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Posted: 2010-02-02 21:28:03
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That Aspen lokks like a Nokia, lol, no wonder someone asked if a Sony Ericsson was a nokia the other day on Esato, to think, he was ridiculed...

Wanqs & GUCCI
So what do you guys think of Jay Z's on to the next music video

You gotta love the Young Money "Bed Rock" song though...
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Posted: 2010-02-02 22:12:01
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