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So now I need to accept a regression in functionality now whereas before I had that info on my home screen now I need to assign my e-mail to the shortcuts bar? Do you not get that e-mail is pretty much the prime function of a mobile device today? Which is how RIM basically built up their entire platform starting with making e-mail impeccable. At least for me it is and for most smartphone owners.
So if you say so sir I'll take a regression in functionality in my new $700 device over my $300 E66. Just a brilliant solution. Have you applied for a job at Nokia?
After having told me to put my e-mail in the shortcut bar you then proceed to tell me that very same shortcut bar is expendable.
So now you have an idea about profile switching and available widgets or available items on the shortcut bar. I actually agree with this idea BUT WHERE THE **** IS IT IMPLEMENTED ON THIS? You see there are many solutions to the 5 widget problem, but NONE are being implemented. So you see what this dilemma stems from?
Entitlement? Are you serious? If I paid $700 for this, I should just bend over and take whatever crap I get? Yours is the entitlement attitude of the typical Nokia fanboy. Basically that I am lucky to live on the same planet where this device exists.
Obviously you can put on 5 widgets of your choosing, thanks for pointing that out genius. But how much old/core functionality must you then sacrifice to get all 5 new widgets on a screen? Even still if you had no use for e-mail (in this day and age what idiot wouldn't) and no use for a calendar and no use for shortcuts because you resigned yourself to going into the menu each time, and no use for contacts because again you think going into the menu is great for the MOST USED FUNCTION OF A PHONE, then you have 5 widgets available to you from a library purported to be hundreds if not thousands one day. So all this promise of a widget interface being the result of 3 years of development at Nokia amounts to: 5 WIDGETS? AT BEST? THAT'S IF YOU SACRIFICE A BOAT LOAD OF FUNCTIONALITY IN THE PROCESS?
Wow buddy you have exceptionally low standards.
So you think there is some voodoo behind the software/hardware requirements of having more than FIVE GLORIFIED NOTIFICATIONS running on the device at once (and that is assuming all are web based constantly updating notifications - which they won't be - maybe 2 or 3 will be) that I don't understand?
Bro, if you gave a monkey 3 years to build on the S60 platform that already has demand paging and the established ability to run over 10+ full blown applications at once each of them sharing data simultaneously and did not limit what hardware choices you had for 3 whole years it would be better than this. They did not have to limit themselves in any way, shape or form if the hardware to run maybe 8-10 widgets needed to be better. No on the other hand they said the old POS platform from 3 years ago they will be using is "sufficient" to do what they want this phone to do.
Why if hardware was an issue in making a bigger splash than 5 ****ing widgets, at best, did they not put 256MB RAM or OMAP 3 or even a faster ARM11? Nobody stopped them from putting better hardware in there. This is all assuming hardware is even the issue, because I have run over 10 applications simultaneously on my S60 I know it works. So I doubt hardware is a factor, and if it were 3 years old hardware didn't do them any favors.
Next you will probably talk about battery. It's very simple you have a phone. If you talk on it for 5 hours it will die. The user makes that choice about how to utilize the battery life they are given. So if I want push e-mail and that shortens my battery life I make that choice. If I want 10 different notifications pushed to me at once, give me a warning about battery life and be done with it. That is my choice to have 10 active notification running at once.
The real issue is lack of space and an alternate screen no matter what direction the swipe is (that wasn't the point of my post whether it is better left, right, up or down) allowing widgets would allow for more space. So even if on battery life grounds they wanted to limit "active" notifications to 5 we could still use the extra space for things like contacts, shortcuts, music player etc.
Also, Einstein, obviously the software can grow but have you seen Nokia's history in "growing" their software? What excuse is there that in 3 years of development this is in such an unfinished state their unrelenting fanboys will argue that there is MORE time for this to get finished? I mean what you think I should another 2 years for FW that introduces space for more widgets? Or that I should wait 2 more years and then pay $700 again to have more than 5 widgets? Which year, Nostradamus, is the call log getting fixed? Or when the music player supports ratings? Or when the e-mail shows the date and time? Or when I can see the contact name with company name without scrolling? Or view my SMSes in relation to other SMSes from the same person? Of course software can grow. But is it growing?
That same hardware feature has a market clearing price of $300 by Nokia's own pricing. Except for the 32GB built in. Which is guess is worth $20 over 16Gb today.
You are a bonfide Nokia Fanboy. You just made an argument that Nokia loves to hear from its boys: "Well this one has removable storage and a smaller screen, but that one has fixed storage and a bigger screen, but I really want removable storage and a bigger screen so I guess if I'm a good boy Finnish Santa Claus will bring me both in the same phone one day! Yippee!"
