Hot rumor: The Nokia N8 with Symbian^3

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Well, if you look around the web, the review has been picked up by all the tech blogs (not just the American ones). The writers have not been kind. The consensus seems to be that it still looks like S60v5.

On another note, Palm is in the news because companies are apparently poaching their software talent and executives before they go under. Nokia, get on that! Whip out the check book and bring on some new hires.
 
Well, SF reference hardware is Omap3 - not extremely low spec I would say, even in 2010/2011. And their roadmap indicaters multicore stuff for the future. But yeah, Meego is for the highend smartphones/minicomputres.

WM 7 does look very interesting, although I must admit after watching the Engadget videos it seems quite confusing, at least in a quick demo like that. In particular the fact that layout/look/feel between "scenarios" (read: apps :P) seems to be quite inconsistent at least so far.
 
Battery is sealed and that screen should be a tad bigger than the N97?

I'm glad pics finally came out. It's a nice looking phone :o don't know if I want another phone without a replacable battery though.

And yes, I expect tons of backpedaling about whether a removable battery is needed or not when it used to be an advantage over the iPhone :silly:
 
While I'm as thankful as anyone for getting info here; it staying here is a near impossibility. Do be careful with what you share.

Correlating the 3 you know of, and the reduced number of releases that Eldar talked about, this could be a good year if these are executed right. At least from a Symbian perspective.
 
Nokia isn't attending the event; according to The New York Times they're hosting their own off-site event.

http://tiny.cc/qtrfh

Per The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, Nokia isn't show casing a new phone, they're announcing their partnership with Intel, which will supply the chips that power Nokia's new netbook line.

http://tiny.cc/Rsakf

http://tiny.cc/8SBuN

Warning! Two of the three articles, The NY Times and the Guardian are a business analysis take on Apple/Blackberry vs. Nokia. So die-hard Nokia fanboys (and lurking Finn employees), you have been warned.
 
If SF wanted, S^4 could be out way ahead of schedule and we could see devices with S^4 before the end of the year, even Q4. It won't be problematic if they don't release anything at all.
People don't want to get devices with problematic firmwares.
People don't want to chose and learn what "version" will be better for them ("ie S40, S60, S^1, S^2, S^3, S^4) since the devices are not 100% certified to be update-able to the next version/firmware.
The consumers could care less what version the device it has, but they just want to know that their device has the latest version that the company has produced (ie S^4 and not S^3, WM7 and not WM6.5, etc.). In the end, you know that once they get to S^4 they will have to re-write their work to work on the Qt framework/libraries. But we'll see. Hope that S^3 does bring it to the competition, or else it'll turn to WM6.5, uncompetitive. By the time S^4 comes out, iPhone OS 4.0 will be out, as well as Android 2.2 (maybe 3.0?). WM7 will be out next year, so let's see.
 
This is more than likely. That qwerty C series device was leaked a long while ago and has yet to be announced.

Nobody should be getting their hopes up for an N8 announcement
 
If this is true - it should make perfect sense.. after all Nokia is the true phone maker. All the other companies are electronic comp. just selling that 4/5 band 3G chip will make Nokia tons of money... :hehehe:
 
Uh, Nokia has done nothing. Someone else has leaked a number of shots of their device that's most likely undergoing design and testing work still.

Sept is when Nokia World is. Didn't Nokia already say they'd make announcements of new models then?

Also, the number of models doesn't make for a credible company, its the impact of those releases to the most number of people for a specific solution. For this device - probably their first S^3 device - better to get it right than be early and have the same folks clammoring for it right now to have broken functionality.
 
The username was taken, so i had to choose something else. I dont have inside knowledge, just eagerly awaiting the phone so i look at all sources. I really want a phone like the N86 dual slider or some phone with more buttons than just a touchscreen
 
Maemo would have been the best idea for doing that. But, plans changed for one reason or another, and Nokia wanted a lot more control over some aspects of Maemo - the only question after that is if they wanted that control, why merge with Moblin.

But yes, Nokia needing to be more agile is definitely a need. In their job postings over the past year+, that's been one of the other noticeable changes.
 
I'm not going to ask you to divulge anything that would get you in hot water, but, going from the 'leaked' photos: based on what you saw, are they really, really sticking with that double-chin thing?

Or is that covering up the real hardware? God, I hope so. The double chin looks horrid.

If it's covering up the real exterior underneath, that's cool. You don't need to describe what it really looks like as long as THAT isn't it.
 
Eldar's main gripes with the N900 were

- not mass market device => TRUE
- buggy and not stable => TRUE ONLY if you were unlucky to get a unit that kept rebooting. Many members on Maemo.org also experienced this so from this aspect. it was TRUE, Nokia should have better QA for final hardware

I really have the impression that no one inside Nokia has ever seen,touched or used an iphone, Android,Blackberry device. They have no idea how far behind the competition they are
 
None of what he's said in the past 6 months has been constructive. Nokia was upset about his N900 review not because of what he said, the whole controversy was around the fact that they asked him not to post his review until after they announced the device (a week or two later), he went ahead and ran it anyway. They brought him in for a meeting to discuss it, after that he went ape**** on his blog bashing Nokia (he's since removed it). I'm all for pointing out the flaws in a device, but exactly where did he do that here? Symbian^3 is a lot like Symbian^1, yeah sure but it works a helluva lot better and truth be told, there wasn't that much wrong with Symbian^1 besides how it handled touch.

It's one thing to bash the devices for being bad devices but that's not his M.O at all.
 
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