Nokia and Yahoo! to bring integrated web services

MORE Powerful threat???? I don't think so, Nokia and their old tired symbian and even their so called NEW UI are no threat for Google and the Android UI especially Froyo, Nokia has always been TOO little, TOO late, ever since I used their phones and really do not see them as ever being a threat to anyone but their selfs!!!

Besides their support of NAM phones is so poor they will never make a showing in the U.S. at all!!!
 
yeah, don't think they are really worried about the USA still...

half of the recent Eastern Asia phones released by carriers are Symbian powered, quite a few from Nokia themselves...

Google basically pulling out of China can not be good for folks trying to sell
Android handsets in that region..

South America and Mexico are still big supporters...

anyway, here's a link from conversations about it...

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/05/24/nokia-and-yahoo-team-up-in-online-services/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRorMUlDsoI&playnext_from=TL&videos=P5F32nYe8tQ&feature=sub
 
Seems like google services already integrate better (with MfE) than yahoo or ovi. Maybe this alliance will provide more structure so s60 syncs to the web as well as android does?
 
It does tell me alot when they cant even get the date right on when the iphone was released Jimmy please stop quoting articles and use your own thoughts it might make u look a bit better.

But it was the arrival of the iPhone, launched by Apple in June 2008, try 2007.
Whether this helps nokia or yahoo is yet to be seen, i dont need articles that have nothing behind them to tell me what is good or bad with the merger.
 
This should have happened months ago when Yahoo was in trouble.

Nokia should have bought Yahoo back then and integrated their services instead of making their own services.
 
lollerskates. Too little, too late? Should we number off the things that Android (not to mention all these new "smartphone" platforms) is NOW getting, that Symbian has had for YEARS - not even to mention the little things, like screen captures or official elevated privileges? Some of you guys kill me.

This should only mean good things for North American ice-breaking, but I haven't used Yahoo! since 1998 and don't plan on going back. Too many closed off doors.
 
The world is bigger then Colorado. Do a search for worldwide smartphone OS marketshare and tell me who's in the lead? That would be Symbian. Heck you can take the #2 and #3 and add them up and Symbian still has them beat.
 
Everyone keeps saying that this will help Nokia break into N.A., and I just don't see it. The majority of Yahoo's user base resides in Asia.
 
While Symbian's marketshare can't be ignored, I still believe that the majority of its user base are cameraphone enthusiasts, nothing more. Which is a major reason you see very little application development for the platform.
 
thats a hard comment to make, because the eseries outsells the nseries now and i doubt its for the camera, as well as the 5800 which sells by the boat load with crappy camera, and the success of the e71 with lousy camera.
there is app development, but like u pointed out its catered more to outside u.s then inside.
I like a good camera no doubt, but i might use that the least on my device over all. :buddies:
 
:clapping:

Reason why Symbian with over 200 million sold phones got +10 000 applications compared example iphones +150 000 is AVKON. It uses non standard C++ libraries that bring worlds of pain for devs.
Maemo 5 with something like ~300 000 userbase got +1000 applications.

AVKON was made to be as efficient as possible and designed for hardware keys back in the days. AVKON=S60 and you can make changes to it as much as you want, but as long as there's AVKON behind you will know you are using S60.

The key to this all is Qt(or so Nokia at least thinks). Much more modern Qt will be used to build MeeGo(Nokias Harmattan and Intels Moblin/MeeGo) and Symbian^4. Just as importantly the application framewrok will change to Qt and example with Symbian drop all the previous apps out.
 
Obviously, the people on this forum are not the users I targeted with that remark. I'm talking about the majority of Symbian users who would never even think to join a phone forum.


Does the Eseries really outsell the Nseries these days? I find that hard to believe, even with the **** Nokia's been putting into their Nseries line the last couple years.
 
yes, it does.

navteq is, afaik, already providing the maps data for yahoo maps, so this is a fairly natural extension/deepening of an already partly existing business relationship.
 
They probably started talks months ago but Nokia took time to make sure the merger would meet their future needs. Even if this does not significantly boost Nokia in the NA market, I see this as a good move for them.
 
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