Support of N9 announce until 2015
http://meegon9.tumblr.com/post/10198...ast-until-2015

It's like fitting a boat into a bottle. Marko seems to disagree @ 21:20....



Damn vimeo scrolling

Ah... so that means it'll come out 2014.. to be maybe kinda sorta supported up until 2015 and then abandoned after that?

I saw the video, but I mostly interpreted that part as a promotional speech about how exceptional Nokia manufacturing is with this design. Apple does similar things when talking about its products.

I'm just saying that I don't believe it really is that much more expensive compared to more traditional phone manufacturing lines.
This is only based on my believe that Nokia has a lot of smart people working for it, and I don't believe they would think that a "unibody" plastic case and curved screen would be so important that people would be willing to pay a lot more for those features.

Also it appears that upcoming Symbian and Windows Phone devices use a similar design. So even if the manufacturing process is expensive because it currently is new, they can smear out the R&D costs over a much larger range of products and sales.
Nokia always was extremely good at making cheap robust mass-market phones. I think this new manufacturing process is designed for that reason.

Nokia probably put a lot of R&D in this production process because of two reasons: fewer part probably means more easily automated manufacturing (labor in Europe is expensive), and fewer products will be returned under warranty, because a reduction in parts should increase robustness and reliability.
This last thing is also a very good thing for consumers, the N9 should be very robust from a physical point of view.

Unlike their competitors?

What makes you say that other manufacturers think that a curved screen and a unibody design is something that consumers want to spent a lot more money for?

Nokia has been doing this phone design thing for a long while. They ought to be the BEST at being efficient in cutting down design and manufacturing costs. If they can't, then they have failed. The design is great, but $200 more on obsolete hardware is not efficient no way you look at it. I'm disappointed to say the least.

Erm... don't both of the Google Nexus S phones already have curved screens?



I go back to my question... what makes Nokia's N9 so damned expensive? Can't be the curved screen, then, the Nexus S is specs-wise far better and it ALSO has a curved glass screen. :P

And at the same time those dual/triple cores is often NOT optimized and is using totally different OS. So the comparision is just plain pointless until we now how the OS:es compares in case of smothness and how good pictures camera, video etc...

Come back when device is released and we can compare.

Concave, not convex.

It's a Nokia N-series phone. No other reason needed.