Hot rumor: The Nokia N8 with Symbian^3

Ceebz, well, memory management in general for example on the N97 and X6 has improved dramatically with FW updates. (Again, not saying they should not put more in to begin with.)
 
I'm not sure that Symbian being open is going to accomplish much for them. Nokia and Sony Ericsson are the only two manufacturers currently supporting Symbian.

Samsung stopped supporting it, officially, last year. They're investing in their own smart phone OS, Bada, and supporting Android of course.

Since I think that SE's days as a phone manufacturer are numbered (they lose money consistently, quarter after quarter), Nokia is likely to be the only manufacturer using Symbian.

There are way too many mobile OS platforms right now. Eventually there will be a large shakeout of mergers, buyouts and consolidations. Maemo and Moblin are already casualties, killed off in favor of MeeGo.

The name of the game now is, which platform can attract the best and biggest application developers? Of course, Apple and Google/Android are in the lead in that aspect, but somebody else can come in and vie for a strong third.
 
Given that this mobile won't be announced/be available until Sept, will this discussion really drag on for that long? I've seen some long thread here, but with that kind of time outlay, can you just imagine the posturing that will happen between now and then (and according to my forum settings, this is just page 8, yikes).
 
Looking at the spec i can't see anything wrong there. Supposed to be AMOLED, HDMI out, best 12mpx camera phone reading what Eldar have been saying in twitter and it's still at least 2 months away. Maybe 3.7 screen would have made it just right, but then i wouldn't have wanted +4inch screen either.

S^3 is what we have already seen in pictures and videos from SF so i'm wondering why this is suddenly a surprise. I'm not really sure if i wanna come back to Symbian, but that will probally be decided by N8's release date.
 
True. There is hopefully some old stuff that gets carried over too. :)

Yes, they've been way stingy with RAM :(. Hopefully with Omap3 being the reference hardware platform they will put in at least 256 (and that that's sufficient to run Qt as well).
 
I hope it doesn't have a sealed battery, I carry a spare battery for my N79 in my wallet which has come in handy many times, also a problem if the battery goes faulty or wears out, instead of simply changing batterv this phone would have to sent to Nokia which is just inconvenient.
 
"The two companies (Intel and Nokia) will use Mobile World Congress to announce new microchips that Nokia hopes will help it to compete with HTC's latest devices."

Does this mean that Nokia will use Intel's chips on their new phonemodels? Or does HTC manufactor netbooks also, I know that they make mobilephones :p

"Nokia may supply some good news for Intel at this week?s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, such as a smartphone or similar device using an Intel microprocessor chip." I think that answers my question ;)

"Update: A person familiar with the situation said the companies? announcement will focus more on software than chips. By combining elements of Moblin and Maemo, the companies hope to make a more potent competitor to Android, this person said"sounds interesting, soon we'll know more :)
 
HTC and more impressively for its size, Samsung, is pretty agile, not only in phones, but in HDTVs. They were one of the first to move on 3D sets.

If Nokia made TVs, they'd just be getting around to their first 1080p set.
 
Lol, the browser has sucked, it's like IE XD. Hopefully they use more extensively what Apple changed to the WebKit code.

Off topic:
Any news on the Maemo6/MeeGo device and/or OS? Maybe a device before the end of the year?
 
It's a bit more complex than that.

Apple is obviously in the lead, but the race for second is a bit more interesting.

Right now, you can share a common codebase across Android/Blackberry and (to an extent) J2ME phones. So if you set out to write something for Android you can easily support blackberry devices, and vice versa. This isn't a totally foolproof process, and it isn't perfect, but it does make cross platform development a bit easier.

I think the race for 2nd/3rd is going to be more about which platforms are easier to develop for and cross platform support. Right now, Android/BB share a leg up on the others.
 
Hello? customers aren't beta testers? yes for NOKIA customers are beta testers, name one Nokia phone which at launch was not insanely swimming in bugs? heck, till date N95 receives firmware update. LMAO, Nokia when will you learn? Come on Nokia, make our jaws drop at MWC with a phone that has 12mp,1080p video, 1.5Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM 128gb built in memory, HDMI out, 2000mAH battery, OK I should stop because making this wish list to Samsung would make more sense or even HTC.
I know companies can make these specs on the phone easily, but they won't because it's called marketing and gradually increasing technology, when Pentium one was out, they could easily make Pentium three, but it's called luring people into buying stuff and then in few months make it's successor, you guys think, no one can come up with a car that gives 100MPG? they sure can, but they won't in near future. It's all part of business and politics, Nokia made a buggy N97 and lured us into it with aggressive marketing and people rushed into buying it, now same "frustrated" N97 owners will buy N98 because it's ''successor'' Nice politics, but I've learned my lesson the hard way.
 
True, but it's a head scratcher because saving on RAM memory is such a strange area to cheap out on. It directly impacts the user experience on a device that can supposedly do multi tasking or run particular applications.

I can understand cutting back on the camera quality or using different materials on the body of the unit, but RAM memory? To me, the headaches and complaints aren't worth the euros/dollars Nokia would save.
 
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