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Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 295191)

IIRC, this was discussed a while ago. one information i remember from that thread is that the U.S. market is by far not as relevant for an international vendor as it may seem to be for americans: it's small, it's shrinking, it's burdened by absurd carrier regulations and technical incompatibilities, in short: it's a mess.

given the choice between growing markets that have a uniform technical infrastructure an this messy, difficult market south of canada, where would you direct your marketing efforts?

There is also a story out there that nokia refused to let the operators mess with the phone firmware, for stuff like turning of bluetooth file transfer...

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 295191)

...this messy, difficult market south of canada...

I wish the Canadian market was only as messy and difficult as the market south of it.

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

http://www.dailytech.com/Update+Appl...icle15383c.htm

Latest rumor: iPhone 3G S will have a Cortex A8 with 256 MB and SGX running @ 600 MHz

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

That's not the latest rumor - its quite old :)

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 295395)

That's not the latest rumor - its quite old :)

http://www.t-mobile.nl/iphone/specif..._iphone2_specs

Well, it seems to be getting more real.

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 295348)

I wish the Canadian market was only as messy and difficult as the market south of it.

i take it that the canadian market is only difficult?

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by tso (Post 295397)

> Originally Posted by qole
> I wish the Canadian market was only as messy and difficult as the market south of it.

i take it that the canadian market is only difficult?

Canadian market is the baby of US market, goes where its father goes.

The same products Nokia N97 and 5800XM are not available in Canada the same like US. And the same like in USA, in Canada all the people have iPhones and some Blackberries. Nokia is rare.
The ipHone is the mobile phone.

USA mobile market started far more late than Europe and Asia and other parts of the world using mobile phones, so 70% of the iPhones are the first phone ever for those persons.

I am wondering if Nokia strategy was not BAD because they could have launched N97 from Jan-Feb this year but they waited for ovi store (by the way, right now, in the last 2 hours store.ovi.com server is down) and they waited for Qt and other small things integration in s60. Instead, they could have launched the N97 with the OS used in 5800 XM 4-5 months ago and at that time there was a lot of potential. Now, with the release of iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre and Samsung Omnia HD, the dices are thrown. The interest for N97 is lost. Too late, and even the specifications of the RAM and Processor of N97 are much weaker than iPhone 3GS and PalmPre and OmniaHD. Too late, Nokia.

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by Architengi (Post 295413)

(by the way, right now, in the last 2 hours store.ovi.com server is down)

you must be the only one to notice. ;)

the store has some 250 applications for my phone.... i don't think that's anywhere near the numbers they promised for the launch. makes you wonder ...

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by benny1967 (Post 295414)

ovi store http://store.ovi.com

the store has some 250 applications for my phone.... i don't think that's anywhere near the numbers they promised for the launch. makes you wonder ...

For my N95 8g is the same, 253 applications. Does it depend from which country you are accessing the site? Games 161. I bought 5 apps and games at about 3-5 euro each.

I am sad for Nokia. I was looking for a N97, but besides keyboard and flash for the camera, the iPhone has better power and RAM and many more applications. Now I'm looking at N900. The only thing is the 2 years gap between this and the last Maemo product N810 and the fact that the apps are incompatible because of different processor. At least if the interface will be nice, easy and user friendly. :)

:confused: Why they change the processor from Samsung ARM 11 to TexasInstruments OMAP3? Samsung does not have any new processor at the same speed?

Re: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97

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Originally Posted by Architengi (Post 295471)

Why they change the processor from Samsung ARM 11 to TexasInstruments OMAP3?

Are you inquiring about Nokia and the N800/N810? The N8x0 tablets use TI OMAP 2420 chips.