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

Awesome... for Symbian^3 phones.

I don't want to buy a new phone anytime soon, since I got this one about 6 months ago, so they in fact yes... they killed it, from my point of view.

I've had 5 Nokia phones, and I've loved them all, but this company has no clue what they're doing in this new age of smartphones.
 
This was my biggest beef with Windows Mobile 5 (a few years ago)--great PDA, but lousy phone! The phone was sluggish when dialing, then would hang if I made a couple calls in quick succession. THEN the phone would lose all reception and go searching for a signal until I finally had to reboot it! So typical of Microsoft!!

Yes, S60 is outdated, but at least it is a reliable phone when you really need it, and other PDA functionality is there, albeit basic.
 
I tried that on a blocked SD card. Sadly it respects the password and I can't find the default password Kingston uses. So I've still got a functional but unaccessible 1GB ?SD card, despite my Nokia's ability to actually detect it and potentially format it.
 
I'm glad the phone works for you, but from what I've been reading WP7 doesn't allow for 3rd party multi-tasking support. That would be too much of a buzz-kill for me...
 
Potential, but also risk. It's essentially a bet-the-company OS.

Meego's technical abilities aside, if it doesn't take off in the marketplace, in Western Europe and the U.S., where Nokia said they will focus the launch, I'm not sure where else they go. A sole reliance on the creaky Symbian?

Is it hyperbole to say that if a Nokia Meego device doesn't succeed with big sales, that the company effectively cedes the higher end of the market for good?

Anyway, right now, Meego's biggest problem is that, as per John Dvorak's column, nobody can say when it will be *shipping* on devices. It could be some time in 2011 or 2012 or who knows.
 
Uh? This comment puzzles me. Nokia has the best Mac support of any phone manufacturer IMO - including Apple! (Try using your iPhone for internet access from your Mac, or using iSync to synchronize contacts, or use Mac OS X's Bluetooth file browser to view your iPhone's file system...)

What exactly are you looking for?
 
Well, whenever Nokia releases Maemo 6 as MeeGo 1.2, it'll be better than Symbian, right now it isn't quite anything, although Maemo 5 certainly is better than Symbian.
 
From what I saw, programs quit when the lockscreen comes down or when another program is started, and when you go back to that program, most of the time, you have to start right at the very start of the program, not where you last left it. With iOS, it takes care of preserving state automatically, but here in WP7, the dev has to save state into the cache but many don't.

That is not a problem when you are of course, multitasking, since either you return to the program on the last state where you left it, or have did the tasks you want it on the background.
 
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