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bsving 2010-10-01 10:58
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Originally Posted by PathFinder@9GS (Post 830491)
FYI, I'm not going to buy a symbian phone as i'm waiting for a meego :Dphone
Same here :) and in the meantime my N900 will be full of different states of meego and nitdroid :)

benny1967 2010-10-01 11:25
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Originally Posted by bsving (Post 830464)
Take for instance the C6-01. It will sell for around 200€, Clear Black Amoled, 8MP camera, 720p video, Ovi maps and battery life that Android can only dream of, plus Ovi store full of music and apps (for those interrested in that).
Right. Incredible, isn't it? In fact, even though probably not even Nokia could do anything that'd prevent me from buying the N900-successor (or could they?), I toy with the idea of getting the C6-01 just as a Symbian^3 toy. You know, you never know when you need one ;)
I assume it'll be amazingly cheap after a few weeks/months, even if you don't get it on contract.

msa 2010-10-01 11:49
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geez, why is anybody here bothering anyway?
none of the average user here is the target audience for the n8 -.-

just hope that the n9 will get the same awesome camera and wait.

mece 2010-10-01 11:56
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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 830534)
I'm using it on the Captivate. Friggin' fast, takes a while to get used to - like 15 minutes - then it's rapid. It's also pretty darn accurate as far as word choice goes... all but curse words or foreign words (I'll probably need to include German too if I can).

If I'm in a rush, I'll switch from the Samsung keyboard to the Swype keyboard and I'm pretty rapid with it.
Oh for ****** sake! What's the ********* point with it if it ******* can't type ****, ****, ****, ****, ******, ****** or ************?

allnameswereout 2010-10-01 12:56
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Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 830639)
I doubt the UI from that movie Minority Report could keep up with that chick.
I doubt that was in reality a UI. It was probably more of a movie with a few interactive buttons, or carefully synchronized. Saves a lot of costs compared to designing and using a UI merely for a movie otherwise not used in practice. (Or is it in use? OMFG CONSPIRACY!!)

ysss 2010-10-01 13:29
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Originally Posted by bsving (Post 830464)
N8, E7, C7, C6-01 will outsell all androids and iPhones together many times over, except maybe for SE X10 mini and X8. Even the 5800 has sold more units than any other touch screen phone.

Nokia use a cheap CPU and a cheap GPU to produce better results than those with premium CPU that cost at least 10X as much. The end result is a cheaper phone that is more profitable.

Take for instance the C6-01. It will sell for around 200€, Clear Black Amoled, 8MP camera, 720p video, Ovi maps and battery life that Android can only dream of, plus Ovi store full of music and apps (for those interrested in that).
Hey bsving.. Were you just bsing or do you have any data to back that up? :) i don't see such significant difference (in terms of components vs end product pricing) between current nokia line up vs their past ones (mid and high end smartphones). So i'm not sure where the profitability optomism is coming from...

gerbick 2010-10-01 13:58
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout (Post 830916)
I doubt that was in reality a UI. It was probably more of a movie with a few interactive buttons, or carefully synchronized. Saves a lot of costs compared to designing and using a UI merely for a movie otherwise not used in practice. (Or is it in use? OMFG CONSPIRACY!!)
Serious much? Twas a joke, sorta.

John Underkoffler is the gentleman's name that came up with the Minority Report UI. There was a lot of science, research and investigation that went into the gestures, look, feel and other portions of it. To be honest... I've heard that there is enough research to fill three books (from people that worked with the effects) and they had to condense it to a brief.

Here's John Underkoffler talking about it, and showing it off, at a TED conference [ view here ] (warning: video will autostart)

I've actually read a little from the official documents (but not much, there's not much that's public, I don't think) about "g-speak" - the UI and the research - but the "joke" was merely how fast she was going and how fast the gesture UI in that movie was.

But there's a ton of science in a well-researched item.

gabby131 2010-10-01 14:24
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begun shipping.................i hoping its not a fail that has begun.

EDIT: oh a short review on the first page.......hmmmm i think im gonna eat my word on top....well i'll get the Sym^3 with the qwerty keyboard....and hoping that it has an external memory (saw some specs and says no SD card slot).

wmarone 2010-10-01 15:33
Re: N8 has begun SHIPPING!
 
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout (Post 830916)
It was probably more of a movie with a few interactive buttons
Nonsense. That's Xenosaga, not Minority Report!

bsving 2010-10-01 16:59
Re: N8 has begun SHIPPING!
 
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Originally Posted by ysss (Post 830936)
Hey bsving.. Were you just bsing or do you have any data to back that up? :) i don't see such significant difference (in terms of components vs end product pricing) between current nokia line up vs their past ones (mid and high end smartphones). So i'm not sure where the profitability optomism is coming from...
Bang for the bucks. That is what Nokia is all about. Take the 5800, with the newest firmware it has kinetic scrolling, turn by turn nav, it is unbreakable, and with a music quality that is unsurpassed. And by "coincidence" it is the best selling touch screen phone ever. This phone is over two years old. Try doing the same thing installing Android on that rather mediocre hardware, or any Linux, it wont work. That is why Nokia still is the number one smart-phone manufacturer.


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