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2009-01-09 , 18:06
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
We all know that fremantle is going to be great and so on. But we are just a little frustrated for not having a new hardware since more than 2 years. I understand there is major re-structuring and am really happy.. but it is just that frustration, that is all.
I am also frustrated. where I work, 2 years ago, everyone had a Nokia Phone (N95, N7x, etc.); Then came iphone. Most of us waited, but as Nokia did not release a touch phone, some bought a iPhone. Later some bought a HTC or a LG. Now Nokia came out with the N97. I will most likely buy one, but all my colleagues that bough a iPhone, LG or HTC say that they invested already enough on their new gear (addons) that they will not return to Nokia. Time is important, and Nokia lost part of the smartphone market being late.

I am afraid that something similar can happen regarding the N900. when it comes out, a significant part of us moved to different platforms. It is cheaper to keep existing customers than to gain new ones.
 

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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
Anyway, you would rather not want to see Nokia jumping further on touchscreen bandwagon?
I'm confused... did you reach that conclusion about my preferences from something in my posts???
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
Why did nokia think that touchscreen phones were not the right thing of the future?
because it so obviously is not the future.

while apple gained some "oohhh" and "aaahhh" for its touch screen only design, most other devices that were introduced afterwards included a keyboard (again) because in reality it's just so much easier this way. - same with our tablets, the N810 introduced a keyboard after Nokia had tried to convince us that this wouldn't be necessary.
 
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I demand a touch-enabled battery cover. Surely that's next!
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2009-01-09 , 18:47
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I'm confused... did you reach that conclusion about my preferences from something in my posts???
No, via Telepathy

Some high-end touchscreen devices by Nokia are to be released 2009Q1 and 2009Q2. According to your reasoning that the economy will take the heat even more -for consumers at the very least-, based on my understanding, these products [including a new tablet] will flop due to the bad economy. Competitors are shipping high-end touchscreen devices right now, or months ago.
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I demand a touch-enabled battery cover. Surely that's next!
A touchscreen glove to use that GPS during sports. Never make a wrong turn anymore.
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2009-01-09 , 18:53
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
That brings me to the question:

Why did nokia think that touchscreen phones were not the right thing of the future? I mean the 7710 was a good phone with a great screen at that point..... why did they chose to close down the touchscreen series? I mean it was so obvious that touch was going to be the future. Apple just came in and it became the inventor of everything!
Well, 7710 was ... I tried using one as my phone for a weekend. I wouldn't call it a good phone. It was on many levels ahead of its time. But the same as I wouldn't call the Apple Newton a good PDA. They were advanced for their time period, but ... I would say that something is a good device if I can give it to my girlfriend and she would use it happily, and those devices would not pass her test.

Hindsight is 20/20, but at the time when Series 90 got merged with S60, it wasn't really generally obvious that touch would rule. PDA:s had had touch screens for a long time and they never really picked up. Then again, at the same time when this was happening the organisation behind Maemo was starting to function.
 
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its good to see the patent application is for a LEFT hand.
as we know us lefties are more artistic

shame theres no stylus pointer on the end of the glove
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
But we are just a little frustrated for not having a new hardware since more than 2 years.
Not me... I'm more annoyed that there haven't been bigger and more substantial improvements in the OS updates. Just look at webkit-eal. Awesome, and yet it should have come from Nokia, IMHO. An OS update can really re-energize a platform (just look at iPhone 1.0 -> 2.0) but think back to OS2005->OS2006 on the 770 or OS2007->OS2008 on the N800 and ask yourself what was updated that totally made you look at the tablet in a new light? Home screen applets? Google Talk video chat that doesn't work with desktops? Yes, users make their own apps to fill those gaps, but they don't integrate tightly into the tablet's main user experience (e.g., what about putting Mplayer code *in* the Media Player so I can play .flv with a freakin' timeline?) and it makes us feel like we're the only ones trying to push it forward.

And why closing bugs as "Fixed in Fremantle" is so bloody frustrating.
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Every time you ask the price goes up $1000 and they add another 6 months to the release date.
Also known as the Saleen S7/Pandora syndrome.
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