I have been a nokia fan all my life (at least, the part in which cellphones exist) and they really have to step up if they want to stay the market leader. The future of Android, Iphone OS and windows mobile looks promising... but nokia really has nothing coming up. Same old crappy looking os with that shitty ovi store.
Out of contrary. They got LOTS of stuff coming up, but not much to show before end of this year when Nokia's Harmattan/MeeGo phone(s) are released and Symbian^4 start to produce mid and low end phones. Harmattan/MeeGo coming end of this year is Nokia's whole smartphone future.
@nieker Your comment starts nicely and then somehow in the middle you really rip nokia off... Funny comment for a fan.
But again, as a Nokia fan for whole life you should be more aware of everything that they are bringing. Seems that you missed the point of N900, Maemo, Qt, MeeGo, Ovi Maps, Messaging and yes... Ovi Store. Since you might not know, Ovi Store got much better and even though it does not rival iTunes yet, it will...
For me you are just one of those that try to make your post more valuable than it is just by saying you are a "true" nokia fan. BS
@Mr w00t I didn't want to offend you or anyone in any way. I'm just saying that I have been using Nokia phones all my life (starting with the 3110 and now i have the n97) and I'm not really planning on staying with nokia. It's just that when i compare my phone to an iphone or htc hero I am kind of dissapointed in the abilities of my os. The OVI store has pretty much no interesting apps (at least not here in belgium) and it doesn't seem like many developers are interested in the platform. The brief experience i had with the n900 didn't convince me either(that is why i didn't buy it) and i can't say i'm looking forward to this MeeGo thingie. The only thing nokia does better then all the other players is synchronising and exchange support. At least when i compare my experience with my colleagues'.
@nieker You're disappointed because you didn't listen when Nokia told us in 2007 via OPK himself that Nokia was hedging its bets on its large market advantage, standing semi still on hardware and just tweaking the OS while implementing a cross platform ecosystem, global services arm, and making Qt the centerpiece of its strategy. This has finally come full circle, and now the fruits of their labor are beginning to show. They have announced they are returning to focus on its hardware again, and will slowly retake their lead in build quality and hardware. N8 and N9 will be the flaghships for Symbian and MeeGo, and you'll see that Nokia has actually sped up the opportunity to totally dominate as the largest manufacturers of the biggest global ecosystem ever.
I'm also a former Nokia fan and i'm really disappointed about how Nokia has fallen behind with their high class phones, the N97 is still their flagship Symbian phone after a year and a half and it will be almost another year before the N8-00 really starts shipping. It's like they have forgotten about their advanced users and are only focusing on the cheap market with copies of copies of phones from 2 years ago (we saw the 5800 and E71 recycled for the 10th time yesterday).
The N8 better be a killer phone with no problems whatsoever if they want to justify working on it for almost 2 years.
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I have been a nokia fan all my life (at least, the part in which cellphones exist) and they really have to step up if they want to stay the market leader. The future of Android, Iphone OS and windows mobile looks promising... but nokia really has nothing coming up. Same old crappy looking os with that shitty ovi store.
Out of contrary. They got LOTS of stuff coming up, but not much to show before end of this year when Nokia's Harmattan/MeeGo phone(s) are released and Symbian^4 start to produce mid and low end phones. Harmattan/MeeGo coming end of this year is Nokia's whole smartphone future.
@nieker Your comment starts nicely and then somehow in the middle you really rip nokia off... Funny comment for a fan.
But again, as a Nokia fan for whole life you should be more aware of everything that they are bringing. Seems that you missed the point of N900, Maemo, Qt, MeeGo, Ovi Maps, Messaging and yes... Ovi Store. Since you might not know, Ovi Store got much better and even though it does not rival iTunes yet, it will...
For me you are just one of those that try to make your post more valuable than it is just by saying you are a "true" nokia fan. BS
@Mr w00t I didn't want to offend you or anyone in any way. I'm just saying that I have been using Nokia phones all my life (starting with the 3110 and now i have the n97) and I'm not really planning on staying with nokia. It's just that when i compare my phone to an iphone or htc hero I am kind of dissapointed in the abilities of my os. The OVI store has pretty much no interesting apps (at least not here in belgium) and it doesn't seem like many developers are interested in the platform. The brief experience i had with the n900 didn't convince me either(that is why i didn't buy it) and i can't say i'm looking forward to this MeeGo thingie. The only thing nokia does better then all the other players is synchronising and exchange support. At least when i compare my experience with my colleagues'.
@nieker nokia 3210 that is :)
@nieker
So now you're enjoying the iPad with your pet?
@nieker The other thing that Nokia does better is mapping -- being able to download maps and not require a live data connection is a big advantage.
@nieker
I hate to say it, but right now, at this very moment, you would be right. However in 6 months time, totally different environment.
@nieker
You're disappointed because you didn't listen when Nokia told us in 2007 via OPK himself that Nokia was hedging its bets on its large market advantage, standing semi still on hardware and just tweaking the OS while implementing a cross platform ecosystem, global services arm, and making Qt the centerpiece of its strategy. This has finally come full circle, and now the fruits of their labor are beginning to show. They have announced they are returning to focus on its hardware again, and will slowly retake their lead in build quality and hardware. N8 and N9 will be the flaghships for Symbian and MeeGo, and you'll see that Nokia has actually sped up the opportunity to totally dominate as the largest manufacturers of the biggest global ecosystem ever.
@nieker
I'm also a former Nokia fan and i'm really disappointed about how Nokia has fallen behind with their high class phones, the N97 is still their flagship Symbian phone after a year and a half and it will be almost another year before the N8-00 really starts shipping. It's like they have forgotten about their advanced users and are only focusing on the cheap market with copies of copies of phones from 2 years ago (we saw the 5800 and E71 recycled for the 10th time yesterday).
The N8 better be a killer phone with no problems whatsoever if they want to justify working on it for almost 2 years.
@GGG
Not recycled, commoditized. Which is a good thing, for them. And yes they should hurry up with the new N8
@GGG
S^3 and N8 will be here in a matter of a couple months, not a year. In 8 months, S^4 devices will begin shipping, so put that into perspective.
BTW, most mobile devices are released after 2-3 years of development. Its the norm, not an issue.