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Originally Posted by pieter_jh View Post
WhaWhat I find interesting about the Register article, and many of the contributors here, is
how they claim to speak for 'the business user'. Not so, people that read the Reg,
and this forum, are tech heads (possibly tech heads in business, but tech heads
nonetheless) and if any such REALLY knows what the typical business user wants, better than a formalised focus group study in any case, I'd be amazed. Non hitech businessmen are a weird bunch. A few weeks ago in a boardroom meeting one of the execs asked me why he kept getting OUT OF MEMORY errors on his E61. As it turns out he didnt know that he had left all the apps open, or that his phone was multitasking, or even what multitasking really is. I have owned communicators since the 9000 and s60s since the 6600, and have very seldom wanted to send a fax. And never known a fellow associate even mention the fax capabilities of their communications. These people often dont even know that it is possible to send a fax from a computer, let alone a phone. I exagerate, of course...

While I do agree that the UI of the 9300(/&i) was purty slick, the e61 and then e61i was a successful departure and first salvo into qwerty s60. The E90 will continue and improve on this, no doubt.
Excellent post, and right on the mark. With the software already available for the S60 v3, the E90 will simply benefit from software that was tested, and refined well before the E90 hit the shelves.
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