HTC HD2?
N900 ?
Clearly must have.

Sounds awesome.
I really look forward to see the New Symbian in its Open-source form.

Symbian is really rock-solid, although it looks a little dated, and I reckon it's a great basis for a very inovative opensource platform.

This is a craptastic FUD based on US centric non-sense.
Just because Nokia products aren't well fit to the US market doesn't mean they're bad or irrelevant.
There is a market in Europe for Nokia, that is large and expanding in the smartphone area.

Nokia offers an alternative to the american OS manufacturers (Palm, Apple, Google and Microsoft) with Maemo.
Maemo is a big step to a Desktop-like user experience on smartphones.

On the Other hand they still have Symbian which is experiencing a profound rebuilding and will propably be up to the challenge in 1 year or so.

Nokia is the main Open source devellopers for mobile OS, provided Android isn't going to be fully open-source which it isn't for the moment.

Nokia has focused on hardware for long now, and always provided exellent quality/cost ratio on the hardware point of view.

For all these reason I see Nokia remaining the major player on the Mobile phone market for the next couple of years at least.

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Agreed

@kadajawi

What's stupid ? making only one HIGH END smartphone a year ?

Yeah I mean it's been like a TOTAL disaster for Apple, Palm and Motorola...

Just Think and THEN write please ffs !

@scratchfury

AHAH That's one good question !
But since it's the sole information worth mentionning, Engadget decided not to mention.

@yanksgrtrthnsox

If you're left-handed then you're backwards i.e. soulless like the redheads and other witches and you shall burn in hell.

On a more serious note I would be VERY VERY surprised if there was not a way to put the menu on the left hand side...
-I can do it with gnome menu, I can do it with cairo-dock, I can do it in KDE...
-It's easy to code
-it would be very surprising if there was no left-handed (soulless mofo) @ Else to think about it.
-Those Else NERDS read engadget and you're comment has been taken into account (and is thus irrelevant now)

@Ray While your question makes absolutely no sense, given its incoherence, I'll answer you oh poor lost soul.

Manufacturer make expensive and shiny phones, sell them for $600 on their Website.
AT&T and Verizon sell phone contracts, very expensive and overpriced one, so no one wants to buy one.

-random moron like you : "But HEY I still WANT my iPhone/N900/HTC HD2/ Hero /DROID !!! and I don't have $600"

-AT&T (or any other carrier) : " No prob bro' ! let's get inside and talk. So you want that $600 smartphone ? hum... and you don't have $600. huhu of course I see... that's tough ! if only one could SUBSIDIZE this phone so it costs ONLY $99 !!!"

-Random moron : " REALLY YOU COULD DO THAT ?!!"

-AT&T : " Sure as long as you accept to pay for an higly overpriced service that I'll provide with 0 garanties and sign in for 36 months."

Random Moron : " Oh thank you, thank you AT&T !"

Got it ?

You got it ALL wrong engadget.
Or at least you make it sound like you don't understand what's going on and you misslead people.

Nokia abandons S60, not Symbian. The Symbian Foundation will realease a brand new open-source version of Symbian (a Symbian 2.0 if you will) and nokia is 100% behind that !

Blah blah blah Apple is hardware based company...


Why do their hardware is so lame then and still they're so successfull?

because they are not hardware based at all, hardware is where they make the money taking advantage of their strong software.

The real question is : is it in the best interest of customers (i.e. people) to be forbidden to install OS X on whatever they like and if not then why is there a law that allows Apple to do so (I.e. a law that's is not in the best interest of the people).

It's strange to see the american law is so corparate-biased from europe.