Hot rumor: The Nokia N8 with Symbian^3

Oh, I agree completely, and I'm currently on contract with AT&T for another 11 months and counting. There's no way I'll give them the satisfaction of an ETF fee, though; that's stupid money IMO.

The problem with T-Mo is their coverage; outside of major metropolitan areas, their coverage, well, kind of sucks. I tried their service (a 30 day trial) about two years ago and I couldn't get a signal inside my apartment without doing a limbo dance to get a couple of bars on my phone.

Actually, AT&T does allow unlocked devices on their network; they just won't give you any tiered plan incentive for an unlocked device, which royally sucks.
 
Like I said, they gain more than they lose by shipping phones out with bugs, because they can make sales in the time it takes to have a good firmware out. If they can't ship the E72 without bugs, why should I have faith that their new touchscreen phone on a new OS will not be buggy, especially when every S60v5 phone released to date has had bugs?

Even with the delays I expect the initial firmware to be half baked. That's just the way things work now, and it's not changing anytime soon.
 
Well that's your mistake thinking that the whole Maemo -> MeeGo thing is a reason not to get an N900. There is nothing that can be done to prevent the N900 from running MeeGo 1.0 when it's released in May and that's regardless of whether Nokia officially supports it or not. The N900 is actually TOO open, so open that they can't even make you pay for apps.
 
That would be good. There's nothing they can really do about the back button in menus without redesigning the interface though, honestly I think it should be fine. I'm curious as to how the app bar at the top is used, if you pick an application from that or if it's options for the app you're running.
 
While I agree that I would prefer a lense cover, its not perhaps AS big an issue as one might think. There was an interesting article on that on AAS I think showing that at least small scratches may have basically no impact on picture quality. Yeah I know, AAS cannot be trusted on anything.. lol.
 
v20 didn't fix the problem with free space on C: when it comes to the N97. The drive is still only 73MB and only 54 or so is available to the user. That's still not enough. Even the software problems it had on launch would have been easier to stomach if it ran on an OMAP3 platform with 256MB of RAM. You wouldn't have apps closing on their own in the background all the damn time.
 
In the future, but it's not out yet. Every mobile OS is getting Adobe Flash, except iPhone lol. The thing is that most people laugh at the fact that a new, or revamped mobile OS isn't getting "Flash" support as soon as it's getting released when in reality there is, it's called flash lite, but as of right now (right now) there isn't full native Flash support, as in Adobe Flash 10.1.
 
You forgot about the sidekick looking mock up everyone is calling the N9.

N900 screen would be nice, but that would fragment Symbian and most developers won't support that. Think about how little support the E90 got.
 
Getting excited about the hardware specs seems a bit geeky... that's where they should be coming in a S^3 device.

The more impressive piece has to be the software refinement (Symbian Foundation) and the services cohesion (Nokia/Ovi). Without these, this is nothing more than "yet another release" and would get blasted because its more of the same old formula.

Back when the N900 was released, Nokia Conversations asked about those features that were missing or should have been paid better attention to. My comment then about NFC and a few others about future(ish) technologies seemed to get their attention. I would expect that for whatever route that Nokia is going with Symbian, that it would be better to judge any higher-end devices on this wise, rather than trying to see if it meets our myths of what a high-end mobile's hardware should be.

Concerning updates to S^3; I would think that the N97 and N97 Mini would be the only candidates for this since the other S^1 devices are designed for a specific customer niche and while they could benefit from the update, the cost of doing the custom development and marketing to these sections might not merit a solid return on investment...

...unless Nokia were to come out with some really neat "Open and Upgraded" kind of promotion that would bridge that kind of consumer awareness. Such an endeavor would make sustainable devices a desirable quality, and would give Nokia something of a olive branch to the N900 folks who have no clue on M6's availability.

From what I can tell, this year's MWS might break/stretch some imaginations. Should be fun.
 
+1

Eldar and Nokia have not been getting along since Eldar leaked the N97 or was it the N900 :befuddled

Nokia was very upset and after that Eldar's tone toward Nokia had changed.
 
yeah i know what you mean, but i think that is on purpose as symbian wants to keep the OS to retain familiarity with the older versions in terms of "looks". i dont know how i feel about that one but i understand their thinking.
 
I'd rather see a very good 5 or 8 MP camera than something larger, but so so. Take for instance, the 3.2 on the 5800xm vs the 5.0 on the e72. I'd prefer the better camera in the 5800.
 
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