Comments on: Nokia’s Crutch is Broken

By: Mike Henriquez

Mike Henriquez — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:18:00 +0000

Nokia hardware is the only reason I would consider getting a WP7 device.

By: guest

guest — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:27:00 +0000

i somewhat disagree. they did use touchscreens but with maemo platform. only difference is that they used resistive. when iphone came out, capacitive screens were fairly new. pretty much apple had a head start on it which gave them all the advantage and since then everyone else is playing catch up….

By: Mr Snurbs

Mr Snurbs — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Symbian ^3/Anna is a fantastic operating system, capable to do the things tipical of smartphone devices and other OS like Android and iOS.It is fast but hasn’t an UI with transitions effects that attract user attention and so it seems slow, but this defect and the only other main defect that it has, browser web, will be correct when Symbian Belle will be out on the market with a new UI and a new web browser.

By: Mr Snurbs

Mr Snurbs — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:25:00 +0000

By: n9isgod

n9isgod — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:50:00 +0000

Are the reviewers paid to make a comment like this :
“Can you really describe Nokia’s line-up as
smartphones? Or, more accurately perhaps, as they being bought as – and
legitimately competing with – the Android, iOS, webOS and other
smartphones on the market today?” ??

Nokia phones are still capable of doing everything an android/iOS device does. And much more than the UI, it is reviews this who seem to be paid who are demarketing nokia devices !

Plus, the new CEO is all after selling his Windows Phone 7. He doesn’t care about Nokia. No handset launched in recent times had given as good UI as the Meego powered N9. This device will be running all the Android apps just like native android apps with Alien Dalvik. But Elop doesn’t want any thread to his dying windows phone 7.

By: n900mixalot

n900mixalot — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:47:00 +0000

Key word is “compete”.

If “compete” means selling millions of phones and generating lines and a media frenzy then no, nothing with Symbian or even MeeGo, or hell, WP7, will ever “compete”.

If “compete” means generating a massive developer community that submits terrible apps in rapid-fire succession, but good and useful apps on rare occasion, it will never “compete”.

If “compete” means provide a useful experience that someone looking for a solid device would choose over other available feature sets, then it’s definitely competing.

In my little world, products that compete are those that would make someone in the market for that product stop and think, and have to make a choice. But a lot of that is just my own personality.

The problem with my thinking is that while $$ and profit are treated as king by what seems like everyone else, to me they are false indicators and instead represent the ability to convince the public of what it needs and not to create the better product.

By: n900mixalot

n900mixalot — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:30:00 +0000

I agree with you but I just want to note that for a LONG time Nokia’s leadership absolutely refused to implement touchscreens.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:46:00 +0000

I was never a fan of Symbian myself, but you’d be a fool of the highest caliber to consider it a “feature phone”-like OS.

It’s biggest issue that I’ve seen is its unintuitive UI – that’s it. Functionally speaking, it has every phone OS beat, even my favorite little Windows Phone 7. It has features and functionality no other OS offers, even a rooted Android handset can’t top it.

It’s issue was always how it lagged behind in UI. And also its “perceived” snappiness. People feel it’s slower because there are no transitions. It takes just as long to load panes, apps, etc as it does any other platform, but because there’s no smooth transition effect it FEELS so much slower than it really is. It just instantly launches, or instantly repaints a new homepage instead transitioning with a sleek swiping motion.

Having said that, I can’t wait to see what Windows Phones that Nokia can come up with.

By: blue_solace

blue_solace — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:24:00 +0000

“Can you really describe Nokia’s line-up as
smartphones? Or, more accurately perhaps, as they being bought as – and
legitimately competing with – the Android, iOS, webOS and other
smartphones on the market today?”Yes, heck the N8 is more capable than most phones just coming out and it came out a while ago. Granted it’s a flagship, but it seems no less capable and will do even better with the Anna/Belle updates. The C line is legit for entry level smartphones, the E7 takes the Communicator line to a whole new level mixing in the old with the best of the new, while the E6 follows up nice in the E71′s footsteps.Honestly, Symbian is made out to be worse than it is. I can easily point out some inconsistencies and flaws in all the new OSs too. The reason noone buys them is not only because of pieces like this but also because phones are contagious. What I mean is that if all your friends pick up this new OS or that one and it eventually starts to saturate the market (as ios and Android have done) then all your friends can really recommend is what they own. That’s why WP7 is still so hard up on sales- because all people hear about is Android and iphones. Unfortunately for Nokia, they didn’t see the smartphone segment coming early enough (or just didn’t do a good enough job early on) to saturate the market with great touchscreen phones. Now they are putting out stuff that is nearly as good, if not better, than other OSs but no one has them and even sees them since they have very few contracts with carriers in the states.