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2013-12-04
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And the Neo900 seems very underwhelming to me. I had a look at its specs and most entry-level phones of today do better, and for the bare motherboard they want as much money as you'd pay for a super-high-end top-of-the-line phone of the sort bought by people who have too much money to bother spec-hunting.
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2013-12-05
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The problem is that you simply cannot DO things with them due to the device being locked down!
If slick UI and stability are your main requirements, why not get a N9 or Jolla instead, where you have the possibility of making the device behave like you want, not like BillG likes it to behave?
you have no end of trouble getting any media in it
calendar alerts send always email to you, and it happens long past the event has occurred... (why do I want an email of the event for gossakes anyway?)
Don't know if it is somehow related to corporate security level usage, but I can't make more than two or three days at best without having to willfully reboot or get the phone totally frozen. And this is the same for most of us in my work place.
"Yes, we can't let Lumia phones in because they are so unstable with their connections and security is not working well enough"
I think that Lumias and their user experience has been designed really really extremely with average Joe Phoneuser in mind
What's use for super-duper awesome hardware specs, if OS (that you're locked to) is so limited, that you won't ever have a chance to use those spare processing power, for anything meaningful? And belive me, for such mundane tasks as browsing web pages, you won't feel that additional cores/RAM difference between Neo900 and hardware0ze super0ze <whatever> device you might be aiming at.
But - a side note - it is the same with gaming consoles, and people are still buying them, even if it's against any logic, so...
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2013-12-05
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2013-12-05
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Seriously, I don't know why the Blackberry 10 OS isn't more successful
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2013-12-05
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But the bare motherboard costs from 500 to 700. There's a limit to how much expense is justified by an efficient and open OS, and as far as I'm concerned this is very far above it.
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2013-12-05
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2013-12-07
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2013-12-07
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Fair enough. I just read on Wikipedia and it says Jolla announced their intentions in july 2012. Considering they've made a system and phone from scratch, I suppose a bit more than a year's development time isn't long enough to call it vaporware. I probably felt that way because I've been waiting for a better OS for a while now, and it seemed to me more time had passed than it actually has.
At my workplace, naturally, the devices offered by company to employees are Nokia-brand devices, and since Symbian went it's way all you can get is Lumias.
However, a growing number of people turn that offer down (or accept the device and give it away to children/parents/spouses) and buy their own devices, used to be N9's and iPhones but now I see more and more Samsungs, Sony's and HTC's around the coffee tables.
And as it happens, I am not the only one who preordered Jolla, even as I sure was one of the first to get it