Thread: 15 hardware changes that would have made N900 physically irresistible – [15 essential hardware features for its successor]
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2009-12-29 , 08:48
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Originally Posted by JayMontano View Post
In essence, yes. Satisfy bloggers/journalists/tech media and gain a much broader mass market appeal.It's not just engadget, that was just an example at the top of my head because they're very anti Nokia (though at times, Nokia are indefensible e.g. state of S60V5)

The tick-box concept (capacitive, tick!) is indeed, just to shut people up, overcome that Nokia prejudice, perhaps even build some excitement and hype and finally give the actual user experience of the whole device a try.
You have to remember a lot of smartphone users (half of smartphone users in fact) are used to Symbian S60. They have no problem using it, they have used it for years. Changing the UI, is not entirely a positive thing. Nevertheless, the UI is so outdated now that change simply has to be done.

Android is in many ways made to satisfy bloggers. And what do we have? A nice OS that is ultimately boring and unsatisfactory, it has no soul, no heart. But the worst part is, Android is not helping manufactorers of devices make more money because it requires too costly hardware in a segment that is tiny and already saturated. Manufactorers making Android devices and HW based on bloggers, ultimately have nothing that will differentiate their devices from the competition. It is a dead end road.

Symbian is much more advanced as an OS than Linux ever will be. Symbian will give Nokia an edge because they can deliver the same experience on less expensive HW. Staying with Android instead of SF (or something homemade) for anyone except HTC/Google, will be a suicidal ride.