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    News - Nokia N8 starts shipping

    The Finnish mobile phone giant’s new smartphone is its latest attempt to regain some ground from Apple and Google.
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    Re: News - Nokia N8 starts shipping

    I've said it before, and shall do again. I've not been really excited by a Nokia phone since the 3330!
    As alluded to in the article, that's Nokia's problem.....and I know plenty who feel exactly the same...
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    Re: News - Nokia N8 starts shipping

    Nokia need a new marketing department. Clearly saying "give Symbian another chance" just isn't going to cut the mustard.

    The Symbian brand has a bad rep, even though it's a perfectly good product. Why don't they take 99% of the code base, move it to a new project called MobOS (or whatever), and then make some trivial GUI changes that make it look like it's a new product, even though it isn't. Make better dev tools (I think they've already done this with a Qt interface recently anyway), and job done. What's the point in keeping a brand name that has no positive benefit anymore?!

    Then, sell all the benefits, such as: "Compatible with old Symbian apps!" Wowsers, how did they manage that?! What a nice bunch of dudes.

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    Re: News - Nokia N8 starts shipping

    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz View Post
    Nokia need a new marketing department. Clearly saying "give Symbian another chance" just isn't going to cut the mustard.

    The Symbian brand has a bad rep, even though it's a perfectly good product. Why don't they take 99% of the code base, move it to a new project called MobOS (or whatever), and then make some trivial GUI changes that make it look like it's a new product, even though it isn't. Make better dev tools (I think they've already done this with a Qt interface recently anyway), and job done. What's the point in keeping a brand name that has no positive benefit anymore?!

    Then, sell all the benefits, such as: "Compatible with old Symbian apps!" Wowsers, how did they manage that?! What a nice bunch of dudes.
    Yeah, but then you just have yet another Apple marketing department with slogans like "ALL NEW SymbOS, IT DIVERTS EXTINCTION-SIZED ASTEROIDS! AGAIN."

    Although I'm still super-duper confused as to why Nokia is juggling so many operating systems. They only need one, and if they weren't jumping back and forth between so many they'd cut their R&D costs, would have a much more mature and better polished OS, have apps operable across devices, and have a lot less customers and developers standing there thinking.. "wtf?!" They need to be more consistent, know where they're going, be clearer about their platform, and basically let people know these things.
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    Re: News - Nokia N8 starts shipping

    I think Qt lets you develop apps, and they will then work on all their OS(s), although there's "only" three at the moment, or rather going forward with new phones, there should only be three left:

    Symbian S40 "dumbphones" with smartphone features, touch support, email, web etc
    Symbian ^3 (replaces S60 v3 and v5-touch) and
    Meego (developed with Intel, and replaces / cans Maemo 5 that was only features on the n900) and is designed for high end "business" phones and tablets etc

    And on the subject of the N8 - as soon as I can buy it sim free I will

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