Comments on: Nokia’s Featurephone Problem

By: Sandra K

Sandra K — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:22:27 +0000

MeeGo stands a chance.

Nokia is probably watching and learning from Microsoft’s failed launch of Windows Phone 7. Yes, it’s kind of an unspoken elephant in the room, but Windows Phone 7 has received lackluster sales after its United States launch. We know there are stores across the US with stocks, but nobody is asking for them. Combine that with the world’s most expensive marketing budget (half billion$ +), and that equals an epic fail.

But the lessons learned… MeeGo needs to be feature complete on release. It must not do a Windows Phone 7 and arrive half-baked, with a promise to update it the following year. That won’t work, and will just result in negative press.

MeeGo already has the basic OS fundamentals, like multitasking, Copy-&-Paste, Bluetooth functionality. Nokia should look down the missing features list of Windows Phone 7, and make sure those features are included in MeeGo at release time. It must hit the ground running.

I believe MeeGo stands a good chance in the market. It seems to be gathering developer enthusiasm. AMD’s arrival will help, as then it doesn’t look like an Intel-Nokia duopoly. Hopefully Windows Phone 7′s failure won’t cast negative aspersions onto MeeGo, as MeeGo stands a much better chance than WP7.

By: bodhisattvah

bodhisattvah — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:40:05 +0000

Pure touchscreen phones are horrid. I hate that I have to have an all singing all dancing delicate glass and plastic piece of crap in the US, to have a phone that will store more than a couple hundred text messages.

By: symbiansimian

symbiansimian — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:40:01 +0000

I am not a professional so take my opinion for what it is worth, BUT, I have lived in both EU and USA for the last 15 years and there are very big differences how people use and view their phones. Before you could send a text from a Verizon to an ATT cellphone lots of people I knew in the EU had two mobiles just for sending SMS’s. Nobody I knew in the EU wanted a flip phone, they were absolutely unfashionable while they were all the rage here. Nokia with the N and E series had the first smartphones with decent cameras, music-player, multi-task you name it. Yes Nokia has really not done anything in the USA market for the past 10 years but contrary to popular belief there is life outside the US. Even now when I travel in the EU it is amazing how many people have a regular Nokia S40 candybar. It really wasn’t until January 2007 that touch became an option in the US and it took a lot longer in the EU. Sofar for my background, and yes while there are quite a few embarrassing Nokia designs (7600 or 7380 anyone?) you really completely miss the boat on your take on the X3 Touch and Type. This phone isn’t aimed at the West but at China where a lot of phones have a (resistive!) touch screen for Character input (you can’t really use handwriting of Characters on a capacitive screen) and you have a keypad for all other input, and I haven’t seen an iPhone or Motorola or any Android phone that aims specifically at the input problem for non-latin languages. Don’t think Nokia is going to die because of “touch and type” , there are definitely problems for Nokia but this isn’t one of them.

By: Raideen

Raideen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:23:45 +0000

2010 iPhone and Android

2012 MeeGo and Windows Phone 7

By: Andre Forbes

Andre Forbes — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:58:17 +0000

Behind in what sense