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Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
Great!!!

Well then you have good news to bring to your colleagues, interested in what they have been demonstrated.

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a...Nokia-Sea-Ray/

The beautiful industrial design as well as the user xperience (the swype interface) will "live on" in the upcoming WP7 phones and will be part of an immense "eco-system" that would make Darwin turn over in his grave, powered by the world's most successful commercial operating system maker and its mobile division, Nokia, formerly known as the largest independent mobile phone maker.
Millions of "apps" to come.

Safely postpone the iPhone 4S purchase next month http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011...-24-Hours.html , the glory will come to the patient (very patient) waiting for the next big thing from MS to overcool them iSheep.

Also, rumour goes, that as the EU comission has also agreed on the Skype purchase by Microsoft, the Skype WP7 version deeply integrated in WP7 phones and WP8 phones will come with VIDEO chat in contrast tot the N9.
Also it will come with a real hardware camera button, later most likely with even a keyboard.

So you can safely recommend the non Harmattan version of the N9 concept to any colleague interested in the beautiful thing you are holding so close yet out of reach.

I seem to recall you having a very different postion not so long ago in this thread.
The conversion is complete hey, everyone else are iTrolls or Android fails
Reads like an ad... little substance...

Do you honestly think Nokia's going make an entire SwipeUX-like interface for WP?
Unlikely to happen, for a bunch for boring reasons that've been outlined countless times.

You do realise we're at 7.5, & Skype video chat is not native for this release?
There's an API so handset vendors can add support for various vid-chat clients if they choose.
And there's a Skype video chat "app" about to be released...
But Skype is not deeply integrated into the OS, not in the same way Skype (non-video) is in Harmattan.
It probably will be by the time WP comes around in approx. 9mth.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/27/w...-mango-review/
http://www.winrumors.com/european-un...ts-skype-deal/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7.5

One of the buttons on the N9 will be repurposed as a camera button eventually.
So where are these Mango smartphones with qwerty's? (not that I personally care about qwerty's)
What are you ranting on about anyway? I can understand US/UK folks doing so.
But it's in your country now, so why not try-it-out before claiming it's a "steaming pile".

Last edited by jalyst; 2011-10-11 at 11:16.