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It looks like Nokia is the next to die after Microsoft's demise three years ago.

by blub 16y ago

bad_user 16y ago
I think the biggest battles in the smartphone market are yet to come. I have an iPhone 3GS and I love it, and while the iPhone is considered the best smartphone yet I see multiple problems with it ... - piss-poor battery life ... yes, I recharge it at night but there are days when I forget about it ... the other Symbian-based smartphone I have can last for 3 days - basically I'm not using the iPhone as a phone (too unreliable) - no replaceable battery - the UI paradigm is lacking in areas Microsoft / WebOS / Android seem to address ... those app icons are taking valuable screen estate without much usefulness - valuable applications aren't properly integrated with iOS ... I have the following apps: Skype, YMessenger, Twitter and Facebook; and none of them are saving contact info in my iPhone's contacts. This is one area Windows Mobile 7 seems to be addressing - the notifications are really fucking disruptive ... it interrupted my TowerMadness game multiple times :) - for developers you need OS X / Xcode for development, and this can be a PITA. WinMo7 probably has the best developer tools available. - iOS has Game Center, but Microsoft has the XBox console market and XBox Live upcoming in WinMo 7. Depending on their implementation, the XBox Live integration can be groundbreaking. - WinMo7 will probably have the best Office integration you can get on a smartphone. And I don't own an Android phone, but I see lots of fragmentation problems and poor management of the marketplace. Bottom line being: lots of areas where iOS / Android could be improved, lots of room left for competition. Don't count on Microsoft / Nokia being dead, yes big corporations are rigid and have a hard time changing directions, but they still have lots of resources, lots of talent and the duty to reinvent themselves when the shit hits the fan.

It looks like Nokia is the next to die after Microsoft's demise three years ago.

by blub 16y ago

It looks like Nokia is the next to die after Microsoft's demise three years ago.

I think the biggest battles in the smartphone market are yet to come. I have an iPhone 3GS and I love it, and while the iPhone is considered the best smartphone yet I see multiple problems with it ... - piss-poor battery life ... yes, I recharge it at night but there are days when I forget about it ... the other Symbian-based smartphone I have can last for 3 days - basically I'm not using the iPhone as a phone (too unreliable) - no replaceable battery - the UI paradigm is lacking in areas Microsoft / WebOS / Android seem to address ... those app icons are taking valuable screen estate without much usefulness - valuable applications aren't properly integrated with iOS ... I have the following apps: Skype, YMessenger, Twitter and Facebook; and none of them are saving contact info in my iPhone's contacts. This is one area Windows Mobile 7 seems to be addressing - the notifications are really fucking disruptive ... it interrupted my TowerMadness game multiple times :) - for developers you need OS X / Xcode for development, and this can be a PITA. WinMo7 probably has the best developer tools available. - iOS has Game Center, but Microsoft has the XBox console market and XBox Live upcoming in WinMo 7. Depending on their implementation, the XBox Live integration can be groundbreaking. - WinMo7 will probably have the best Office integration you can get on a smartphone. And I don't own an Android phone, but I see lots of fragmentation problems and poor management of the marketplace. Bottom line being: lots of areas where iOS / Android could be improved, lots of room left for competition. Don't count on Microsoft / Nokia being dead, yes big corporations are rigid and have a hard time changing directions, but they still have lots of resources, lots of talent and the duty to reinvent themselves when the shit hits the fan.