AT&T and Nokia developer competition, $10M total in prizes

Why are people referring to them as Sony all the time? I mean Ericsson was a bigger cell phone manufacturer than Sony ever was?
 
The newly priced data plans aren't the problem; for the most part, the pricing is reasonable, even if it is $25 instead of $15.

The problem is, AT&T's new plans have 2GB hard caps. Sure, most of the time you'll never go over, but if you stream radio, or online music, like me, it's not too far fetched that you would go over the cap and get whacked with crazy fees.
 
I wouldn't doubt that Nokia totally bends over for AT&T on this issue, just like S-E did.

Big Blue is looking to jettison all the heavy data users on their network; they don't make any more money off of them than they would someone who consistently uses no more than 500MB-1GB and pays the $25. Pinging users with IMEIs is one way to do it.

Another way to do it: introduce LTE devices, and transition ALL devices to LTE. Once on that network, *everyone* plays by the carrier rules, caps and all. All they would need to do is throttle back 3G networks to get people to switch.
 
THIS is what the USA market needed in terms of awareness for Symbian!

I just hope that impressive applications from developers get awarded and with useful, powerful and appealing UI's while being rendered efficiently on non-1-off optimized Symbian^3 devices for the contest or development show off.

IF this goes well; this benefits Nokia, AT&T, the smartphone market and fans alike. Maybe it'll be enough to walk :SE: out of their Android slumber and reconsider a communicator for Symbian ... ultimately I hope so since their last 2 efforts the P990i and P1i failed miserably; I still like the P990i design though.
 
X7 has a 4 inch screen (or at least close to it and in any case larger than C7). Also, as an X series it may well have at least one dedicated media access hardware key.
 
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