Symbian^3 Delayed

So Nokia spoke of a product release in Q2 and it's pushed back to Q3? Nothing new here folks, move along. It'll be Q4 before anyone sees any product.
 
Funny, while yesterday Dell in one day announced a line up that ***** on Nokia's past 2 years worth of releases, the Nokia dude says cell phone cameras will make SLRs obsolete like he's on crack or something. Now their ******** S60 rehash is delayed?

What a joke of a company.
 
Why would you be impressed with Symbian^3? Symbian^3 is just a hardened Symbian^1 "aka" S60v5.

Meaning more stable version of S60v5.. If you want change on the UI.. Look fwd for Symbian^4. That's the breaking away of Symbian^3. Their going to break the compatibility.
 
You don't think the new OS should be impressive? :befuddled

It should put a smile on your face, while you think: "this is really frickin' cool".

That's the hurdle they have to jump over.

Also, so you know, the CEO, Kallusvuo, in the earnings call to investors today, basically promised that Symbian^3 is what will make them competitive with Android and the iPhone; his words, not anybody else's. Symbian 4, again according to Nokia today, isn't shipping until 'sometime next year'.

Just read that man-on-the-London-street Bloomberg piece that juxtaposed a closed Nokia store with a packed Apple store. A couple of younger people were interviewed, a college student and a waiter, and they both wanted iPhones over Nokias.

Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/24rvhlq
 
I guess we won't be seeing a may/June release for the N8? Shame that's the only phone I'm interested in right now, wait too long nokia and htc will probably put out a comparable device :(
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Symbian should have skipped ^2 (whatever that was) and ^3 and driven straight for ^4. Time to market is critical and the longer it takes to get the ^4 the worse it is for them. ^3 is going to be nothing impressive (some extra home screens?) and even if ^4 breaks compatibility that doesn't mean that's it's going to be a drastic departure from the current Symbian OS. They are just going to screw developers again. The only thing that is interesting from Nokia to me at this point is Maemo/Meego running on hardware that will work on 850/1900MHz HSDPA.
 
Dude.. I know what I'm getting myself into.. If you think this OS will be impressive.. Sorry to burst your bubble.

If you read the Symbian Foundation Roadmap.. It clearly says it there. Symbian^3 is a hardened S60v5.

What did you expect OPK will say? He's the Head of Nokia..

Would you want an iPhone?
 
I don't know what Jokia is doing, either out of no where they are gonna drop the bomb, a killer smartphone like i8910 HD did or they will just keep on producing phones from 1-2 years ago. Nokia should stop making statements and show some action! Other companies are having Nokia for breakfast nowadays. I've been using Nokia for 10 years without even looking at any other phone and now I'm not a fan of Nokia until they start releasing some ''Competition" Although, I must say I'm not worried about Symbian3 delay, I don't wanna see another N97 or beta tester phone.
 
It won't be impressive/a huge change, I agree. But to say its the "same UI" is a bit of an over-simplification too - I mean it will remove 400+ prompts (to me the BY FAR most annoying thing with Symbian), use single tap through out, have pinch zoom, and some smaller things. Likely also the long awaited darned threaded SMS. :D Could perhaps call it a "significant refresh"?
 
And this is a concern I brought up when I was told the release date for Vasco slipped a month. Personally, I'd like them to avoid another N97 situation and release a perfect product, than meet a release date and release a half-baked product.

It's quite a quandry as whatever they decide to do, there will be a negative reaction regardless so it's all about mitigating risk and choosing the lowest risk.

///Michael
 
I personally think it's a much needed refinement (and still excites me when I think about it), but I worry that other manufacturers will have passed them while they scurry around to tie up all of the lose ends. I like Symbian and everything it stands for (and by proxy, Nokia with their true sense of openness), but things are simply getting out of hand with the delay of a true flagship. I have money just sitting here waiting for them, and they simply don't want it.

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We are coming upon almost a year since the N97 was released...a year. I mean, people are picking up the buggy E72 because there is literally nothing else to get :doh:
 
The E72 is another device that seriously hurt them; the scuttle-butt is that business firms are dumping it to due to its unstable nature, its build quality and its 'broken' Bluetooth stack.

An E-series device should be rock solid with minimal, if any bugginess. People use these things to do business with; they're not going to put up with cajoles to wait for firmware updates or go scouring user forums for fixes and patches. At the first sign of unstable firmware, IT departments will drop buggy devices so fast it'll make your head spin.

Come on Nokia, seriously, get your crap together. It's beginning to get embarrassing.
 
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