Nokia: 3 million apps downloaded from Ovi Store every day, 165 million Ovi users

Lol I told you, I'm a phone whore, and I'll jump to who ever has the best device in the market. I make fun of Torch users now (that Blackberry seriously is a POS). I'll be picking up the Galaxy S in the next few days, let's see what I experience with the "best" android device on the market (pre-Nexus S era).
 
Droid X >>>>>>> Galaxy S.
Metal instead of plastic, better antenna, better call clarity (noise-cancelling mic), better battery life, better screen for reading, larger screen, higher resolution, better UI overlay (w/ any android you should download launcher pro plus first and put it on).
 
The Galaxy S is a great phone. I'm still waiting on Froyo (from Bell) so I can compare it to the Telus Desire which is amazing with Froyo.


With that said the Galaxy S still has it's bugs, GPS for instance totally blows compared to ANY Nokia phone but if I need GPS that badly then I'll gladly throw my SIM into my e72... :)
 
I would've tried the Desire from Telus, but the 4" screen and the 1ghz processor is just calling me! Plus, I've got Tomtom on my iPhone 4 - no need for GPS on the Galaxy! :D

But yea, I hear XDA is already designing 2.3 ROM's for the Galaxy - are you waiting for official ROM's for the desire? Isnt Froyo already out for it?
 
Froyo is out for the Desire (which also has a 1GHz processor) and I love it. I'm waiting on Bell's official version of Froyo for the Galaxy S to compare to the Desire...
 
Froyo is not yet out for the Galaxy in an official capacity. I love the SMS time bug and the lag when opening the gallery too. I also don't think it "feels" as fast as other people seem to. Really, it's a very decent phone, but if you're expecting Jesus to pop out of the screen because it's an Android device you're going to be disappointed.
 
What's the advantage of GSM now that Verizon has world phones? My wife just got the Droid 2 Global. Works in every country, glass construction, excellent call quality, blazing fast 1.2 Ghz processor, excellent qwerty! We are on the Verizon 1400 min + 10 F&F + unlimited text/data plan for $140. And when Verizon gets 4g phones in the Spring or Summer we will be on the new 700mhz frequency instead of Sprint's 2100mhz. That means we'll get internet inside concrete bunkers while if you go into a Starbucks with an HTC Evo, you lose signal.

Is $140 for 2 people to have basically unlimited everything not competitive? Seems to be the same on Tmobile, Sprint, ATT.
 
What I was originally trying to say was that this is pretty much an AT&T / T-Mobile user room, (left it at "GSM" to shorten it up) & most Nokia users use one or the other for their carrier.


While I'm not terribly thrilled with AT&T (every network has it's issues), my corporate discount still gives me everything I need...
 
Froyo has been rolling out (slowly) for the Galaxy S since the end of October -- many regions just haven't gotten it yet.



How does that work with Verizon's world phones? Do you simply pop a SIM card in your device and start talking/consuming data? Can you easily switch devices at the drop of a hat?

Also, Verizon won't work for many people as you still can not talk on the phone while pulling down data.
 
Froyo not out for the Galaxy S? You got to be kidding. I brought in my Galaxy S to a Samsung service center and it came out with Froyo. Some of the Galaxy S they got in display also got Froyo. Mine got the official ROM ware build JPA. It should be noted some ROM builds require to be brought in the service center, while others can be done through Samsung Kies. I don't really know why but mine fell to the first group.

The Froyo updates are spreading fast among phones first among Europe and Asia, including India, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, S. Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Nordic countries and so on. Various carriers now have updates in effect, including Vodafone, and new ones are being announced, including Bell Canada, 3 UK and T-Mobile UK among the latest. Australia appears might be soon, on Telstra. The slowest it seems were for the Americas, especially the US, since it appears the updates are going to be hitting Latin America soon.
 
Got Froyo yesterday but overall it's no better or worse than the HTC Desire's Froyo update on 10/31. Unfortunately GPS on the Galaxy S still blows big time. (although I'm looking into a possible "Motorola Milestone" workaround since it's a Bell phone with my AT&T SIM)



This definitely won't replace my e72 as my work reliable phone but will still keep it as my nights and weekends device.



I'll probably keep my Galaxy S around at least till February and see how improved the S^3 experience is with the Browser and Portrait. After that it's all about the N9!... (barring no problems with the initial batch) :)
 
Nokia needs to get more service/information apps out there that are used on a daily basis. For example more and better sports apps! You can imagine how many more downloads you will get just by having 'the score mobile' or tsn app on symbian. Also they need apps for banking , ebay, craigslist , theatre locator and movie times for each theatre. etc..... Just simple apps to make what you do daily alot easier!
 
Exactly!! Even though you can do all of the above with a web browser (UPDATE PLEASE NOKIA!) having these types of apps goes a long way to consumer acceptance. I noticed that Ovi Maps has a move listing service built in, they should hype the ***** out of Ovi maps here in north America. People think that Google maps is the only game in town, but Ovi maps is really on equal if not higher ground but no on knows!
 
Sure, but they need a device base in consumers' hands to hype it on first though... :) The few people who basically go out of their way to buy a Nokia smartphone will most likely know of the Ovi Maps anyway. But yeah, _IF_ they ever get major carrier support for a range of phones (and the carrier let's them keep Maps on them on a prominent position), then they for sure should hype it up!
 
I'm sure Nokia would love to have such apps on Ovi, but they need to do more to get developers on board. I'm sure most of them wouldn't have a problem doing it, rather, it just doesn't make financial sense to spend the man hours on a product that will only be in front of a few (relatively) people's eyes.

iOS and Android (which is still far behind iOS in terms of the marketplace offerings, IMHO) is where the money is. RIM's store isn't half bad as well.
 
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