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	krisse	2009-04-28 , 22:08
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Originally Posted by ARJWright

I would not at all be surprised if Maemo 5.5/6 featured a high-end "phone" at the top of the heap. The signs point to it, Nokia all but says it in action, and frankly, its a smart thing for them to do to maximize their Maemo stake.

I agree, it would make sense, but who knows what they'll do. Nokia behave strangely sometimes... :-)

The 5800 is definitely a phone for the masses, its not a power-user device, nor is it the device Nokia wants to use to push Ovi to the "market influencer" bunch of folks.

IMHO Ovi Store's strength comes from the lower end. It's going to be on most Series 40 devices from now on, which means (if sales stay the same) approximately 200 to 300 million S40 devices per year, plus about 60 million S60 smartphones on top of that, plus Maemo devices... Ovi would be reaching a lot more ordinary people than the current crop of mobile app stores.

(And Ovi itself is a lot more than just the store, it covers all of Nokia's online stuff including mapping, gaming, e-mail, media sharing, syncing, cloud computing etc with a single login.)

That being said, the N97 sure does seem like it should have been an IT. Design language, hardware, timing. It seems less like the other N-series devices and a lot more like what we would have seen from an "N900-like" model.

It reminds me of the Communicator range, which were Nokia's first foray into pocket computing. They use Symbian nowadays, but their roots go right back to the GEOS platform of the mid-90s.

No doubt we'll see an Eseries Communicator which uses a similar shape to the N97 at some point soon.

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