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2012-06-04 , 23:03
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Originally Posted by stratax View Post
well i started getting into smartphones around early 2009, and i bought the G1 since it was ubber cheap (120$ craigslist).

you cant buy high end symbian phones on craigslist in the US (at least in Missouri). and i just now started buying phones off of Ebay (where i got my n9). so thats why ive never owned one, TBH ive never even seen a Nokia smartphone besides the one i hold.. none of my friends barely know what Nokia is besides those old go phones lol
you're forgiven this time :P hehehe kidding, yes, i know, i never tried WP7, i did wm5 - wm6.5 even have qtek and tytn and some ooold pda (still alive), but never wp7 because....it's just a phone...almost
Originally Posted by stratax View Post
im not going to lie, i probably could have got the N8 but back then i was into android and thought "oh, the N8 specs arent high, so it probably sucks". now i realize hardware isnt the most important thing.
i didnt like how android was becoming, thats why i dropped my HTC amaze. it was all spec wars.. (my phone has .4GHz more than your phone!!!)
software > hardware.
yes, i know what you are saying, that's why i complain about runtime on top of runtime on top of os... (app calls one lib, that lib calls another and another lib calls driver (or even complicated))
this logic makes phones with super hardware specs, and i think it's waste of resources, instead to invest in something better than this...
for example, friend of mine, Samir Oueldi, designed app that makes front camera as motion sensor (but direction is detected too) i call this innovative (i tested this app on my second s60v3 phone)
i used to code for symbian, i used python (pys60) because i don't like to make donationware, so learning Symbian.C++ apis would eat my time....etc, and ok, i was using runtime that was slower, but i was always seeking for way to make app as simple, as nice, as fast as possible, never asked for more ram or cpu or bigger screen....lol
(actually, i did once, it was 176x208 screen as i remember of nokia 3250, i refused to port FloUI on it)
Originally Posted by stratax View Post
ive always been a little Nokia fanboy even though i never owned one, and now i finally have one

seriously though, my BIGGEST complaint is that the n9 doesnt have a equalizer (and sigma doesnt really help). thats really it.. and no free voip like android has (gtalk)
yes, i lack equalizer too, but slowly it will be available, at least as component for harmattan just patience