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JulmaHerra is offline JulmaHerra
2010-08-06 , 07:06
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#180
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Okay, to go back to topic here...

Am I the only person that finds it weird that the Nokia dude is putting so much faith into the N8, but it represents the last Symbian N-series phone. It's like putting faith into the last standing pair of dodo birds... that happen to both be male.

If they're this vocal about the N8, and they continue down this path of non-vocal behind the upcoming MeeGo series as they were with the N900, what kind of conflicted message does that really send?
N8 is first and last Symbian^3 device for N-series. They are not going to ditch Symbian completely, as far as I remember, Vanjoki said that it is very likely that we will see Symbian^4 devices in N-series in the future.

In my opinion, every device we buy is going to lose support in the long run. Symbian^3 will be around for short while and then replaced with Symbian^4, but afterall, we have not seen a single Symbian device that can be updated with new version of Symbian OS. Symbian^4 devices are about one year ahead (plus delays), so it gives N8 reasonable time to be on the market, this time being "one of a kind." Fact is, Nokia simply cannot stick with S60 for one additional year waiting to jump straight to Symbian^4. Qt will bring at least some backwards compatibility, so N8 might be actually a good buy if you don't want to wait for MeeGo to be available for our N900's or pay higher price for new MeeGo-device. At least if software doesn't suffer too many problems.
Last edited by JulmaHerra; 2010-08-06 at 07:09.
 

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