Thread: What's so bad about Nokia + Android anyway?
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2011-02-03 , 06:09
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#42
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
It's suicide. Why would anyone write apps with Qt (or native blackberry, etc) if they can cover Nokia with Android apps ? Plus, Symbian HW is lower spec on average than Android so won't look good anyway. Dalvik (or rather, the Android API) is pointless FOR THE VENDORS on any platform other than Android (i.e. blackberry might be preparing a long term migration plan for all I know).
The big sales in Androids is at the low end, 600 MHz CPU and no GPU to speak of. All Symbian3 devices are much better than that. The low end Symbian1 devices typically have those specs, like the C5-03.

People get an Android to replace their aging (one year old) dumbphone, This doesn't mean they will pay for apps except maybe a small handfull, there are plenty of free apps around. All these apps could be available also for Symbian. Increasing the size of the free lunch certainly cannot be suicide. Still, is it even practically possible? if it is, then Nokia should do it.

Then there is J2ME. It will become big for a complete ecosystem for dumbphones at the low end. This is where Nokia is actually loosing sales these days. S40 is a surpricingly capable OS, a revamped J2ME, touch screen dumbphones in combination with OVI will be a smash in the years to come IMO.