AT&T Cancels X7?

It's not a necessity for actual reasonable use, no. But it's a necessity for a flagship device that launches after first quarter of 2011. I'm not even sure the Verizon iPhone is going to do that well, because everybody will know the iPhone dual core and many other devices are right around the corner. I just hope enough people jump to the Verizon iPhone 4 go give us regular iPhone users a little boost on the AT&T network speed. :-p


When you view it in those terms, all Nokia suffer from a serious hardware specifications challenge, even setting aside that Nokia OS do not show well when compared to iOS and Android.


I think that if they handle it right, the form factor is something going for them. Personally, I think that manufacturers still do not realise just how much typing it is that people are doing. Isn't the keyboard the biggest complaint coming from N8 users?

How many iPhone users complain about the keyboard? I complain about it, and I see (in other forums, obviously) many other people complaining about it. The iPhone 4 might be the best device that there is, averaging everything together, but a better keyboard would be very nice.

I don't know.... Maybe the keyboard is something that could be marketed to an advantage. This is also why I'm not counting the E7 out just yet.


It's hard to fight. It doesn't seem to be the best at any one thing in particular, but it's the best if you average everything out and there's no denying it's the device to beat if Nokia intends a market share attack in the USA.
 
Do you think the target audience of a verizon iPhone understands or even cares what a dual-core processor is? I'm pretty sure it'll sell well regardless, and I'm even more interested how the sales compare to as well as affect the "droid" phones which were pitched by verizon to be better.

And yeah, hopefully this gets more users off at&t, specifically in the SF bay area!
 
Funnily enough, Eldar is reporting that the N9-00 (what I guess we can assume is the phone that leaked last year) has been scrapped and 2 new models are in development. I really, really hope MeeGo is worth the trouble, as multiple people have mentioned the hardware being ready but the software still needing work.
 
Based on comments from others my understanding is that he is indeed referring to the proto that we saw pics of etc. The model N9 per se is not cancelled - i.e. the will most likely be a N9 (or, more likely, N9-00 and N9-01 unless the change that god awful naming convention) but very likely with at least somewhat different design and possibly some tech specs compared to the originally leaked pic and specs.
 
yeah you could look at it this way. but it is hard to see this as good news. it does not bode well for a may june release. elop may be going back to the drawing board on meego. I expect elop to say meego is not dead, that they plan to release an "n9". But that they have a high end strategy that includes a new OS. they will end february with at least 3 OS: symbian, meego, and "unknown". we will know much more in about 3 or 4 weeks.
 
Given this new "news" from Murtazin, who despite his Nokia-hate is pretty accurate with his information, I'm beginning to agree with you.

If that N9, that looked like a shrunken Macbook Pro has been cancelled, then...

a. there's no way a Nokia Meego device ships this year or any time soon, and because of that,
b. Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop opens his keynote at MWC, not by showing off new hardware, but by introducing Steve Ballmer on stage and their plans for WP7.

Meego's software merits aside, there's no way Nokia is going to wait out yet another "transitional" year while Android, iOS, WP7 and even H-P eats its lunch.

Now comment away about how that's NEVER going to happen because Nokia would be peeing its pants to stay warm/cutting its own throat/etc. etc. etc.
 
Eldar likes attention. Sometimes he's correct and sometimes he exaggerates, but whether you like him or hate him people still take notice when he makes his thoughts public...
 
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