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Originally Posted by vivainio View Post
What company are you comparing Nokia against in terms of communication about unreleased products?
Microsoft acknowledged Project Natal, later renamed Kinect before it was ever on sale. Even explained it, had videos, et al. Windows Phone 7 had a portal months before it came out - stepped on the toes of the (doomed) KIN Studio, but it was out (required Silverlight though).

Google constantly talks about what the next iteration of Android and other products (Google Voice for instance) will bring about. Even had some lengthy videos that explained it.

Apple has MacWorld. They hype the ever-loving bejeebus out of their forthcoming products, but the products are announced, explained, shown off before their release date.

Samsung explained each variant of their Galaxy S series before it came out. We knew the screen type, form factor, who was getting what, potential (and promises broken) update dates, specs months before release.

Dell had a micro-site for the Dell Streak, pages for the Dell Venue Pro (formerly Lightning) and explained the operating systems, pricing and features.

Blackberry has an active SDK program whereas you can program for the PlayBook (right now), communications about how they are tweaking the battery performance but it will not delay the product.

HP has commentary, white papers, communication about WebOS 2 after their purchase of Palm's WebOS. Speculation aside, HP has been upfront about who is working for them - Ari Jaaksi for instance - and ultimately they've laid out some of their upcoming (couple of quarters at least) pertaining their upcoming phones and at least a very visible dedication to WebOS by the HP execs.

Meizu has shown off iterations of their M8 UI, the Android UI updates and changes, specs, even shown it off via photos and video months before its debut (today actually).

Lenovo showed off the oPhone in video and had overseas announcements (China) about which carriers will be carrying that phone, the OS, the updates, the specialized apps, the camera and other hardware specs before its release.

I can keep going. Nokia has said "We're committed to MeeGo, Qt, et al..." and yet have not done much more than that. The 1.1 demos are great, the community is driving most of those videos though. People putting MeeGo on a HTC HD2 or Nokia N900 is the community. The Intel based iterations, WeTab inclusive, have not been community based; however it's not ARM based... which historically Nokia has committed themselves to supporting for their handsets.

Nokia is more quiet about upcoming products than most any other company out there. Rumors? They don't have to address those. I wouldn't. But finding definitive information other than "every 6 months, a new MeeGo build" (which was stated only here from my recollection) is not in the public as it should be.

Not compared to any other company. But for comparison sake - and I truly ****ing hate to be the one answering more than I am answered - let's see who you compare their communication to and give out details - as I had done above.

Thank you in advance.
 

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