Lovely home except for those
pesky leaks. This Nokia house built (circa 2010) upon on a foundation of Symbian with a MeeGo roof is also sporting an interesting looking S-series smokestack. Most of the building blocks we've already seen including the flagship
N8. The N9 is almost certainly Nokia's followup to the N900 and Espoo's first handset to feature its new
MeeGo OS. But what's with the business-class E7, mainstream C7, and socially entertaining X7? None of these handsets have been announced, yet all three are at the top-end of their respective series meaning more functionality at a higher price. Still, the most interesting revelation is the S-series which Nokia has never referenced under its new naming scheme. The translated text from the S-series bullet describes it as, "A name reserved for limited phones. Mobiles that do not fit in other categories come in here." The first
Moorestown phone to run MeeGo, perhaps? Hey, we can dream.
[Thanks, Mark]
posted June 9th 2010 5:40AM
No, it's just a Vertu.
the S-Series of course.
@Engadget: the numbers 1-3 (c1, c2, c3, x2, x3) = series 40..... 5-8 (e, c, x and n8) are symbian^3... number 9 (n9) = meego. i've made such a graphic a few weeks ago -> http://img710.imageshack.us/f/bezeichnungen.jpg/
@dartox
Good work! Do you reckon that the X E and C series will have 9 level functionality ever? Or does your graph imply that only 1 model will run MeeGo at any one time?
@dartox You were close. Good job
@Thomas Ricker
Love that "smokin" chimney reference in the headline. Nicely done. ;-)
@JFH: no. there won't be x, c and e devices with the numbers 8 or 9, and as i heard it from the nokia academy, there will just be one meego device, the n9. but that's no problem. the e7 would be the best e-series device. the n-series (n = new) introduces at every new n8 announcement something new (like this year the camera and symbian^3, and usb otg).
@dartox: ah, and if someone is wondering why there is no 4 device (x, c, e, n)... that's because the "4" is an unlucky number in asia.
@dartox Doubt it since N91, N92, N93, N95, N96 and N97 were all S60 high spec models. I would think the logical replacement is the new Symbian version.
The S looks much more likely especially as it is differentiated in the picture.
@petebob796: me and nokia are sure that just the n9 will provide meego, but ok, doubt it ;)
@thisisit CHANGE YOU DAME DISPLAY PIC!
@KingFaisal94 Damn*
@dartox
S40 is not Symbian
@dartox So is meego or symbian^3 better Im confused
BRING ON THE N9 ASAP!!!
@dtakias
+1 to that!
Assuming N9 is the MeeGo successor to N900, I am ready to pre-order one already!!
@fatjoe2
Tell me about it!! I am having enough with my N900, and if N9 is not out soon iphone4 here I come!
@dtakias
Is that really a viable alternative for you? The most hackable and capable os now, switching to the most closed and controlled os out there?
After the N900, with flash, fantastic browser and the best multitasking & threading bar none, I could not imagine going back to jabbing at an icon grid.
N9 FTW!
@JFH
I agree with all that! BUT i am having enough with crap battery life! not being able to use the phone with one hand! ridiculously silly portrait mode which forces me to keep opening and closing the keyboard to achieve it and still not being able to get Nokia Maps with voice navigation!!!!
@dtakias
Absolutely. I love Nokia, but they are getting consistently owned in the RTM schedules.
N9 competes on spec/S^3 with HTC Desire/Nexus 1 but it is not out until the end of the year and will be $30E more than the Desire?
N900 was 6 months late to turn up being 16mm thick and having a resistive touchscreen compared to the HTC HD2.
X5/X6 also 6 months late compared to the HTC Hero.
Sort it out Nokia!
@dtakias
Agreed on the navigation part, those other points dont bother me, especially after pr 1.2. My only gripe is address book access in portrait mode.
@Joylove
You mean N8 competes with the Nexus1 right? The N9 will most likely own anything out there. I agree that they should speed up their device roll outs, but it has more to do with software than hardware really. Hardware wise they can trounce the competition right now, if they so desire.
@Joylove
"N9 competes on spec/S^3 with HTC Desire/Nexus 1 but it is not out until the end of the year and will be $30E more than the Desire? "
Have I missed the Nokia N9 launch? I thought they would make a huge announcement. And even price already. Well maybe I should step out of the closet.
"N900 was 6 months late"
Looks like basic math rules have changed also. N900 was announced in September and it was in stores early December. To me that is not 6 months let alone late 6 months. Or do you imply it was released 6 months after HD2? Because HD2 was released 2 years late to N95.
@Nrde
Apple announced Iphone 4 and will be selling it in 2weeks time! This is what Nokia needs to do.
Also maybe stop producing 100devices per year and focus one a few key devices to cover the mobile phone market!
@dtakias
Did you see the number 16 in the article title? 16 models. Not 100. Thanks.
@JFH
Nokia produs page has 83 models. Not all are available yet, or still, but that is a lot of models. They have cut back on the number of new models but I still think that the new naming scheme is going to be too restricted and lacking of space.
There's room for 16 models + the S models, and that is less than the number of models Nokia used to release each year. Either S class is going to be very large, or they are going to release submodels.
@dtakias
Turn on power save mode.
And stop roaming on 3G while searching for WiFi while taking calls through your bluetooth and IR beaming contacts while piping audio through your car's speakers (with FM Boost on, no less) running maps in the background while you watching the last season of Dr. Who with the screen on full brightness.
and the camera on standby.
If you want more standby, move to something more phone centered. Power costs, my friend. I really enjoy having Maemo, but I'm thinking of trading down an E63. I miss the phone features....perhaps with a N800 as a traveling buddy.
@c w j
Dude, what a waste of your and my time!!!
I am always on GMS unless really necessary, WiFi/bluetooth switched off, don't store any music on it, have tom-tom for navigation and I am not a fan of Dr Who and finally my brightness is adjusted at level 3/4.
Also most of the times my cpu is underclocked. Nokia is famous for crap battery life, this is not breaking news!
@dtakias
Not according to Gizmodo!
@newone
Well, if you consider 16 base models, and then country localizations etc, the total number is going to be higher than just 16 SKU's, yes. But their current divergent range is inefficient for them, and they will reduce this number dramatically. Besides, the article is about these 16 models, the ones they will be having going forward, so I did not see the relevance of yelling "100 different models" when that is clearly addressed with this effort.
@JFH
The yelling came from a big Nokia, pretty much went through all high end Nokia symbian phones from the first ever 7650 to N97.
Nokia has been producing amazing devices long time and suddenly Apple comes announces an iphone every 1.5/2 years and sells many many millions units.
Nokia announces a model, releases it after 6-10months with only a few exceptions and then it turns out to be buggy and users have to wait for another year at least for a stable firmware, WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!
@dtakias
Um. You need to calm down, and recognize the funny. That stick must hurt.
You have brightness at 75%. That is, huh, not going to save much battery. Anywhere.
My Nokias have always had good battery life, I've never seen where they have a penchant for not.
The N900 has done no worse than the G1 I had did, and it's processing more. Could it use the batt from the N97, sure.
Regardless, it's a power device and draws more power. Sell it and get something that doesn't.
Oh, and
calm
the
f#ck
down.
S-series is for MeeGo!
Nokia, wow me with your N9, and I'll be back becoming your no.1 fan!
@armando
I'm not so sure if the S-series is in any way related to a specific OS or processor. When I hear "limited phones" I think of design tryouts, high priced accessories for the bling factor. Nokia has done it in the past and they would fit in there.
@armando
Nope.
Linux phones have been under a separate naming scheme, and probably will still be. Think this picture is only for symbian, and S40/S30 phones.
So we will still get a N9 symbian phone, probably a qwerty N8ish, and S is reserved for Symbian phones that don't fit to any other classes, like the old 8800 etc.
"S" series probably refers to the type of phones like Sirocco for instance or Luna.
Here is a link: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_8800_sirocco-1692.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_8600_luna-1995.php
@Black
Agree.
I'm more than sure that S series will be the old 8xxx series. Makes sense as Nokia have always pretty much controlled the 800-1200 eruos luxury phones and it doesn't fit to X, C, E or N series.
@Pdexter
Right. I thought the same. Those are the *bling* phones.
New Nokia table circa meego version of the dell streak
Nokia, can you just focus on shipping the N8? Let's stop this huge gap between announcement and actual shipping dates, it gets old quick now, plus the fact you're losing a lot of attention from the ADD generation.
@pika2000: the HAD to announce the n8 because some crap-man named eldar made a bad "review" based on an early proto-type.
@dartox: *they had to...
S series is for phones like 8800. Not quite Vertu but more expensive and more unique than N/X/C series.
@Eric P I will be happy to have S if it has S^3 or MeeGo
Very excited to see the N9 come!
There's also X9 in the works/ Early phase. A few of the upcoming phones under the new naming convention has been mentioned by Eldar Murtazin and he's preparing to leak the N9 in the coming months. After comparing the interface speed of maemo/meego/moblin vs. Symbian , N8 doesn't cut it for me anymore. And Symbian^4 is way too ahead in the future. So i think I'm gonna wait for meego(maemo 6) based N9.
@driq
I hope he doesnt put out another one of those "I am not getting paid by Nokia anymore, my new sugardaddy is Samsung-Reviews".
The N8 looks to be far more capable than he "predicted".
@JFH
Well, Symbian has always been very, very capable OS. Only bad thing is that Avkon (UI layer) is getting outdated. That's the problem. Symbian has one of the most advanced operating systems out there but UI development has been up to vendors like Nokia and that's why it's not up to date. I'd really like to see some high specced Symbian^3 phone from other manufactures, it would be nice if they would offer Symbian^4 update for it too.
@Suomaa
Good thing then that S^3 is the last version of Symbian UI with Avkon :).