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Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

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Originally Posted by AndyNokia232 (Post 924506)

If Nokia are keeping Symbian for low/mid range phones, and are developing Meego for the top of the range smartphones, how come the E7 is being touted as the company's best smartphone ever, is price-tagged at a whopping $600, but will have Symbian 3, the same OS used for mid-range phones like the C6?

OS here or there (plenty of midrange Androids nowadays, too), it's a Communicator with all the office/business/whatever integration, so definitely outgunning models like the C6 by quite a margin both hardware and software-wise.

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

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Originally Posted by efekt (Post 924550)

Thats quite odd, as I cannot understand why are you so against an operating system which you've never tried. Have you ever had the chance to hold an N8 or a C7 in your hand?

Have you ever held an N97 in your hand? It's actually a very nice phone aesthetically with a nice form factor. But if your easily seduced by a pretty looking phone, that's your business. What a phone looks or feels like don't mean s*** to me in all honesty. The N900 ain't pretty.

Symbian is Symbian. S60v5 (Symbian^1) or Symbian^3. It's all part of the same family and it's still Symbian underneath no matter how they try to dress it up and I ain't going there again.

I bought the 'flagship' device when it first came out for a hell of a lot of money and I can't express how disappointed I was with it, and I was stuck with it for a year. I had problem after problem with it. Irretrievably lost all my contacts and a whole s*** load of other stuff. And don't say that I should have backed my stuff up because that function had stopped working too. How is it 'quite odd' to want to steer clear of a brand that caused so much disappointment? Go back and get dished out a bit more disappointment, yeah? Quite odd? Cheeky **** son of a gun.

edit* Oh Efekt.....your signature is the biggest contradiction I've ever seen. You call me 'quite odd' for steering clear of Symbian forever and your signature says that.

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

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Originally Posted by JamesBond@ge (Post 924953)

How is it 'quite odd' to want to steer clear of a brand that caused so much disappointment? Go back and get dished out a bit more disappointment, yeah?

But you bought another device from the same manufacturer, and one that is unlikely to receive any further support from Nokia. :confused:

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

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Originally Posted by marxian (Post 924966)

But you bought another device from the same manufacturer, and one that is unlikely to receive any further support from Nokia. :confused:

The N900 was a kind of last chance saloon for me. I've always been a bit of a Nokia fanboy. I quickly realised after signing up for the N97 that I should have waited a couple of months for the N900, and it was an itch I had to scratch.

And I was right. Out of the box, the N900 has EXCEEDED my expectations and is head shoulders above the other thing I bought. As for the lack of support, that doesn't bother me. There is a good....and quite unique community here which you don't get with many other phones.

So my problem isn't Nokia so much. It's Symbian. Urgh, just saying it's name makes my skin crawl lol.

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

I've held and played with almost every Nokia device (even very old ones), this includes the N97. Yea, it was pretty bad, but in time and with the latest firmware updates its pretty usable. Still not as good as the N900...

Anyhows, I urge you to get a hold of an N8 or a C7 for a few minutes - you'll be VERY surprised at the progress Nokia's Symbian has accumulated - its actually pretty snappy, and I know some people who threw away their iPhones for the N8 and they're VERY happy with this decision.

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

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Originally Posted by JamesBond@ge (Post 924981)

LOL, looks like it's Android time for you. Then you will know what disappointment is all about :)

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

"With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship"

I did jump ship. I've been a communicator fanboy for ages, and when I saw the E7 I did some research on alternatives and found the n900. Best thing I ever did.

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

NOT ME! Symbian ship is too old and got too much bugs/glitches and mysteria freeze of death and low battery when making phone call. lol.

Symbian devices never have sufficient RAM.

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

There is a thread about users feedback :
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...386#post968386

I have one, but I dont know what to do with it, ovi store does not even provide a free ssh client ... well i'll hack some qt development before trading it for a n950 :)

Re: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?

*waves from the other ship*