Thank you Nokia, it was a fun ride while it lasted!

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NEERJA VIDUSHII

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Well, I really must say thank you to Nokia for the past 3 years of what started as a blast and ended in a crash and burn. After SE phones for years, I began my love affair with Nokia with the E71. I then switched to the E75 as there was a keyboard with larger keys. Well, one week ago today, I purchased my Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7. What an operating system, and once you get passed the lesser build quality by putting a Body Glove bumper around the phone, you leave all that Nokia had to offer in the dust.

Now, rather than writing all of the things that this phone has and that one doesn't, I will leave it open to all to ask anything about the reasons that I am keeping my WP7 phone and am only thinking about what could have been with those in Espoo had they ever taken a real chance and done somthing really creative over the past 5 years.

Good luck to all and see you again sometime soon! Also, thank you to everyone that has ever answered a question I posed during my stay in this forum. Cheers! Lewiedude.
 
I agee with your comments, while nokia sleeping
Microsoft produced amazing UI with win mobile 7.

I got the focus 2 days ago And I am loving it!
 
It seems like like Nokia won't risk changing the UI until the bottom falls out and they are forced to (a la WinMo 6.X, Palm Garnet OS). It's not like they can't; Maemo/Meego look decent. So I'm doing my part in giving them (financial) tough love ...

I've played with the Focus/Surround and the UI is gorgeous (2D but acts in 3D). On some screens, there's only text so it has kind of a glossy magazine feel to it. It makes Android, WebOS, and IOS all suddently look old. That said, I can understand the complaints about the start screen. It is a version 1.0 device so it's missing a lot of thing but I hope their hub concept catches on and gets copied.

A physical camera key, no crappy (TouchWiz) skins, 4" sunlight readable screen, and removable bloatware all seem like wins to me. Hopefully, updates will arrive promptly to all devices in a timely manner (*cough* X10).
 
symbian users generally want the same thing faster and easier, not new cool and pretty.....




only text makes WebOS look dated...?
the card system that everyone is copying..?
all the UIs are moving toward a 3D look and feel, it was even showcased at a couple of Symbian past events....
 
It's been years in the making, though. Not trying to make an excuse for nokia, MeeGo has taken too long to produce a product.

I can't comment on the usability as I've only handled a phone for about a minute and I have my own personal concerns, but metro UI in my opinion is the most stylish interface on a mobile device right now and likely within the next year as well. It's not for everyone, but dismissing it as "pre-school colors"...seriously?
 
So True! What I like the most is the notification, I am on Corporate exchange, so password lock is mandatory. On my Focus I can see new emails(Corporate as well as my gmail), missed calls on the lock screen without even unlocking it! I can also activate Camera & music(which I use more often) without unlocking it.

The OS is still new, missing many features including copy/paste but it is an excellent start!
 
So in other words, anyone who picks up your phone can see possibly sensitive info without unlocking it. Sounds like a bit of a security violation, doesn't it?
 
I dodn't mean actual email content, it is just the number of emails received in each of the accounts, outlook, gmail etc., You don't have to unlock to see if you have news emails waiting in your queue!
 
I am using a 16GB class 4 Sandisk MicroSD card on my focus & no issues with it! Sure it will not be usable if I decide to put it on another phone.
 
Good to see all of the vigorous discussion. After having used the phone now for 9 days, it really is something to be considered. Make fun of it/me all you want, but I have been using "smart" phones since my days way long ago with the moto v600 and pairing it with my HP iPAQ to surf the web in the early 2000s. I used to hack it and make all of the crappy moto standard fare better. Moving from feature phones to the E71 and then the E75(being abandoned with this one wasn't fun) was a great use of my time. I am indeed saying that the UI is great, looks great and is of course missing some things. What isn't. My friend just got a Droid 2 and he can't zoom into email! On the native client. WP7 does it no problem. Would I like more control over my phone, of course. But, there is a trade off for everything. Like let's talk about how quickly the BT pair with my DS-980 bt headset. I used to spend so much time praying it would pair on the first try with both the E71 and the E75. WP7 does it before I even look at the phone to see if it is working. Press the Windows icon hard key and tell the phone whom to call, no training...and it will pronounce the full name of the person you are calling and ask you if you want the mobile, home or other number in the contact's data. Did it pull over the categories that I painstakingly set up in Outlook over the years? No, but I am sure that will be fixed and I don't really find it a problem. The native email client is really fantastic...

Oh well, I could go on. But, it is going to take a ton of real hard work on Nokia's part to pry $500+ out of my hands for an unlocked phone. And I am, I mean was, the target market for Nokia.

See ya indeed, but try something new...anything but Apple!
 
Nokia has 18 months to come up with something spectacular in order to keep me as a customer. (That's when my current contract expires.)

They make great phones, as always, but lousy smartphones. Nearly every day I'm wishing I could do more with my 5800. They even killed-off their halfway decent Facebook/Twitter app, which I used a great deal. Yes, it was in "beta", but it felt almost like a finished product, and there's nothing in the absolutely pathetic Ovi app ecosystem to suitably replace it.

Oh, and their support of Mac is virtually nonexistent. Even Microsoft support WP7 on Mac.
 
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