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This will be interesting in terms of hardware. Windows Phone 7 has some steep system requirements. Will Nokia's existing phones even be able to accommodate it?
by thematt 16y ago
This will be interesting in terms of hardware. Windows Phone 7 has some steep system requirements. Will Nokia's existing phones even be able to accommodate it?
- dagw 16y agoThe N8 has a 680MHz ARM, 256 MB Ram and hardware accelerated OpenGL-ES 2.0. If they can write a DirectX driver for the GPU, then that should be good enough. The really interesting question is if they'll do something interesting enough to differentiate themselves from their field. Given how dull the current lineup of Windows 7 phones is, they might have some real opportunities.
- jf 16y agoWindows Phone 7 requires a baseline of 1 GHz for the processor.
- dagw 16y agoFair enough. The N9 will ship with a 1GHz processor, if rumors are to be believed, So I'm guessing that will their first Windows 7 platform, unless they're building something W7 specific from the ground up.
- sliverstorm 16y agoWell, that totally kills any chance of a WP7 update for my E72.
- JonoW 16y agoKeep in mind it's going to be while until the first Nokia WP7 phones are released, so 1Ghz will probably be pretty standard by then
- zmmmmm 16y agoThat and the fact WP7 still doesn't support less than WVGA screens really makes me question how Nokia is going to compete at the low end with WP7. Honestly I think a big part of the threat to them is not even the "smartphone" market but rather that their low to mid range phones where all their volume comes from are going to get knocked out by Android.
- rm445 16y agoThey might have to start putting decent processors in their phones. Besides its other problems, I'm sure people wouldn't hate Symbian so much if it was just snappy. Symbian phones just seem to have that quarter-second time constant on everything they do. I'm sure there are architectural reasons, but Nokia haven't helped by putting undercooked processors in all their 'smart' phones.