On 2009-08-20 06:07:10, NoTnERb wrote:
when will the next announcement be???

On 2009-08-20 17:58:53, T-mobile wrote:
Maybe 28-29 October 2009 for Symbian smartphones
http://www.see2009.org/

Just an assumption, don't count on that.

I have a feeling that Rachael will be announced at MWC 2010

On 2009-08-19 11:57:44, snoFlake wrote:
Not sure that consumers, fanboys aside, are eagerly awaiting them. Most won't wait unless it's for something unique and as alledged handsets will almost certainly have direct competitors available before them why should they wait? That is assuming they haven't been drawn to other paltforms in the meantime (Winmo's getting a pounding in recent sales stats). Was the X1 a better iteration of a WM6.1 phone than all the others or just a later to market one? The panels certainly have been a runaway success there may even be more than 10.

Obviously not all Komiyama san's fault as Flint era was responsible for failure to expand development of touch UI platform and handsets or anything capable of matching up to consumer's changing expectations post iPhone (oh the irony of SE being caught without a touch UI strategy - gonna make one of the great business school study cases one day) however he doesn't seem to have been able to get on top of the shambles or resurrect UIQ programme even as a stop gap measure or just get something released quickly to market anything really other than yet more mid range dumbphone snorefests. Now we have a series of "me-too " shared platform phones alledgedly in the pipe line the the only non vapourware at the moment sems to be Satio which are running 6 months + behind their rivals. In the NY Times (I think it was) article on it SE themselves all but admit this. If there's as long a lead time after Bert takes over even if he gets strategy right we shouldnt' expect to see anything worth bothering about until H2 2011. Is there going to be space left for an expensive me-too solution, mebbe.