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Read more.52 million smartphones shifted in a single quarter... wowsers!
Hope they continue growing and moving furth away from #2! great products.
And poor old Nokia is no where to been seen.
Its a shame to see Nokia get things so wrong, but this is what happens when you don't keep evolving to meet consumer demand. The Samsung Galaxy S III is a seriously nice phone (all be it a bit large for my tastes) and I can see why its been such a big seller, both Apple and Nokia are going to have to seriously up their game to make a shift for the top spot in the market.
What I would like to know is why over the last 3-5 years weve shifted for an outright hate of M$ and now its cool to hate Apple?! I just dont get it!
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Competition can only be good for the consumer, lets hope both Nokia and Apple have some new innovations up their sleeves (loving my S3).
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Originally Posted by this_is_gav
Speaking of companies who need to innovate and regain some lost market share, I hope that RIM also manages to push the right buttons when BB10 launches in 2013.
But I have to say that looking at the range of handsets that Nokia is offering (ty cheesemp) it seems that they have the steeper mountain to climb
Samsung looks promising. In fact I've only 2 months left on my contract for my HTC Desire HD. What's the S3 like guys? I'm tempted but I want something with decent battery life and the HTC definitely isnt that.
Battery life is pretty good on my S3 but I do enable power save mode. I get about 12 hours of pretty constant use including photos
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Samsung have done well. Their fortunes climbed about the time of S2.
I hope Nokia does not abandon Symbian completely. Get their devices thinner, signal to developers to make apps using qt framework, they tend not need as many out of the box and maybe pay RIM to license BBM exclusively. We are today getting devices that cannot do bluetooth transfers.
Why would you not want Nokia to give up on Symbian? It's their sticking with an essentially dead OS that is hurting them more than anything.
Nowadays if a phone does not run Android, Ios or Windows nobody is interested.
Nokia needs to concentrate on size and features and start shifting to either Android or Windows if they want to remain competitive.
Apples way of regaining ground will not be make their phones any better, rather they will just fire off more law suits and get Samsung tied up in litigation again and effect their sales that way.
I think the iPhone 5 will be a step forward, but Apple has lost a great deal of forward momentum now Steve has gone.
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
It's only semi dead in western markets since the only attention they get is from bloggers calling it dead platform constantly. Everywhere else people want it because it offers more than Android out of the box. Nokia at 200gbp or under with Symbian does not have a competitor on 'features'. So it is a mindshare problem. What they need is to help developers with good tools to build their apps. They have done that with QT framework. They should slim down their handset profile and keep adding to platform. They are already far ahead in camera side of things.
Samsung will clean up the Android space.
Last edited by pp05; 29-07-2012 at 01:27 PM.
People turn into "haters" when companies let them down - e.g. Microsoft and Windows ME (and Vista), Apple spending more time/money on lawyers than design engineers. For me, I hate/loathe/detest Apple management (and the Genius Bar mushrooms), but they've still got some good design engineers (and I had a recent very good experience with customer support).
+1 on the desire for Nokia to "up their game" - I really hope that the WP8 devices are spectacularly good. Apple I'm not so bothered about.
I think you're in a minority with that opinion - most folks accept that Symbian is dying/dead, in which case I personally don't want ANY Nokia time wasted on it that could be better employed in delivering a better WP8 "experience". Oh, and I was under the impression that the BT issue was a WP7 problem, not one that merely affects Lumias - is this wrong?
My advice to you is get along to a phone store and see if you can have a "play" with a functioning one - especially important is whether it's too large to hold comfortably - I've read of people complaining that they bought one and now find that's it's too much of a handful. Other - minor - point is whether you like the blue or white. Personally I went with the white one because the blue one (to me at least - ymmv) looks too much like the "lesser" models.
As to the S3 itself - I'd sum it up as a device that "does most things excellently, some things passably well, and only one or two badly". And that's based on having a SIM free S3 from launch and using it on two different networks. Power consumption - especially with the "power saving" mode on is acceptable to good. The display is also a bit meh - bright sunlight - and especially a thick screen saver - do it no favours. And I've found that the camera is pretty lousy if you try and use it indoors under fluorescent lights. On the other hand, it's soooooo fast in every aspect - e.g. the camera launches faster than a digital camera can start, brower's are quick, GPS gets course fixes in under 5 seconds, etc, etc.
I've seen descriptions that the iPhone5 will be an "S3 beater" - which if that is the case, then I'll say that Apple's design team will have to pull out a Harvey sized bunny out of their collective baseball caps.
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