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Question of the Day: What is your stance on AI?
You take that back :/
bxm
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For some reason we've been struggling to get our Bold 9700 and Torch 9800 to talk to us when navigating. Which model have you got?
But fair enough, I'll make the review more accurate
.Nokia have tried to rectify this with Qt. From my experience with Qt on PC it could declunkify development quite a bit. Don't know if it's too little too late, though.
The N8 was supposed to be very competitively priced. Some pre-orders ran at around R4800 or so, but I saw an MTN ad today where the N8 was priced only R10 cheaper (per month) than a BlackBerry Torch.
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HawkiesZA
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Nokia have discussed this issue and I tend to agree with them. Android is a temporary reprieve from the constant competition in the market. They have Maemo and MeeGo and both of them look pretty darn good, not to mention that more competition is good as it drives other platforms to adapt and innovate more to stay ahead of the curb.
You would notice that he said it "...feels like...", not that it is laggy. Personally, I don't like that it only responds after the swipe gesture, and while side scrolling widgets is a nifty idea, it seems like they're compensating for only having 1x4 widgets that can't scroll up and down.
I liked Symbian back in the day on my N-Gage, but the recent developments for touch devices don't impress me. I'll stick to my Droid for now, thanks...
Reviewers will have different opinions about the design choices made in Symbian^3.
I for one felt that executing the swipe command after the gesture is completed rather than during makes the phone feel laggy even if it isn't.
EDIT: Heh, Hawkies beat me to it
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kingrob
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Most probably a HTC Wildfire.
I still have a Nokia Navigator that I use for voice prompted navigation - and it's brilliant - but my SE P990i made me realize that Symbian was not made for touch screen phones. You really needed to "thumb" the screen hard to get any reaction from the Symbian OS.
Agree with what someone said earlier, Nokia phones are/were always WAY overpriced.
i honestly feel for the people working at Nokia. their hardegat bosses are going to cost them their jobs.
i believe competition is good yes, but be bold Nokia. Bring out one phone that some techies can easily get Android 2.2 up and running. make a viral, nobody will know you planned it
see how good it sells.
android went from < 3% to > 25% market share in a year (mybroadband.co.za).
you can't deny it.
the only way i'll ever buy a nokia again, is if i can get android on it, and this thus means that i will never buy a nokia again.
i believe competition is good yes, but be bold Nokia. Bring out one phone that some techies can easily get Android 2.2 up and running. make a viral, nobody will know you planned it
see how good it sells.
android went from < 3% to > 25% market share in a year (mybroadband.co.za).
you can't deny it.
the only way i'll ever buy a nokia again, is if i can get android on it, and this thus means that i will never buy a nokia again.
This is complete nonsense. Free apps work and I run my own code on my 5800 all the time with no problems. It's very easy to customize it and Symbian allows your code to run directly on hardware with no pesky JVM in the way unlike BlackBerry OS and Android.
Symbian FTW
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Mike Hoxbig
Honorary Master
As I said in the other thread, just because it was designed that way, doesn't make it right. The right thing to do would be to offer the option to choose which type of scrolling is preferred, with a note that real-time scrolling will affect side-scrolling widgets.
Not everybody uses side-scrolling widgets, yet everybody is lumped into the same boat to compensate for it.
F1ve_Claw
Expert Member
I got my N8 last thurs and to be honest I love it.
Not sure why people complain about Symbian but maybe they like more "Oooh Shiny" UI's.
On my N8 havn't found a free app that hasnt worked althought I have had apps crash on me.
In my opinion having had the phone for a few days the main drawback which wasnt spoken about (Could be wrong) was the home-key which is in a terrible spot and is akward to push when holding the phone in one hand.
Edit: Browser is terrible but use Opera any way
Not sure why people complain about Symbian but maybe they like more "Oooh Shiny" UI's.
On my N8 havn't found a free app that hasnt worked althought I have had apps crash on me.
In my opinion having had the phone for a few days the main drawback which wasnt spoken about (Could be wrong) was the home-key which is in a terrible spot and is akward to push when holding the phone in one hand.
Edit: Browser is terrible but use Opera any way
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Those that support Symbian seem to be a similar type of user to those that still buy Toyota's because of their reliability. Symbian, due to its design and lack of development (read other manufacturers bailing) is only suitable for non smartphones and I think in that environment it still flourishes. However, the likes of Anrdroid and iOS have firmly relegated Symbian to the bottom of the pile from which it will not recover.
+1
It seems as if this is just a good camera with a phone and a crappy software
It is amazing that Nokia is not manufacturing a lot of android based phones, if any
For god sake they are one of the oldest cellphone manufacturing company and yet their share of the market is getting smaller.
Almost everyone in this forum probably owned a Nokia at some point in their lives. And if nothing drastic happens, they will wake up one day and all it will be gone...forever.
Its going to be another General Motors
Tjoker
Expert Member
+1000
The wining formula in cellphones sales is the operating system
Gone are the days where clunky OS was the order of the day
People want OS that is fluid-like and works all the time. An interface where one press less buttons to execute the same thing
ARE WE CURRENTLY WITNESSING THE DEATH OF NOKIA and SYMBIAN
I ll be the first to say rest in peace
Gone are the days where clunky OS was the order of the day
People want OS that is fluid-like and works all the time. An interface where one press less buttons to execute the same thing
ARE WE CURRENTLY WITNESSING THE DEATH OF NOKIA and SYMBIAN
I ll be the first to say rest in peace
F1ve_Claw
Expert Member
You can disconnect throught the widget on the homescreen or in the Connectivity Settings
Mike Hoxbig
Honorary Master
Or just press the wi-fi connection status (the antenna picture above the date) on any of the home screens. That will let you get to connectivity settings where you can disable it.
No need to add a connectivity settings widget.
Oracle666
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Symbian...FAIL!
Synaesthesia
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Having used Symbian on a 5800XM, I find it very clunky and inconsistent. For example in some menus and lists you can scroll by swiping, others not, they have scrollbars. Why does Nokia want to make everything so hard to learn?