Nokia Hinting at new communicator

Ooh what a surprise. Wouldn't surpise me either if Nokia had been talking about Series 80, running at 640x240 pixles during the Symbian Dev Expo... 😉

Let's wait and see... :roll:

http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/4c0b3858b107015b80256d520018ba50 :roll:

Well that is very disappointing. I think the PDA market needs a new communicator device to drive sales up. The problem is that essentially there is not much difference in the Palm and Pocket PC products (I don't mean Palm and Pocket PC are the same, but the devices in each OS), nothing really exciting happens in the market. Altough they don't want to market the new communicaor as a phone (fair enough) I assume it will have telephony built in as I think its essential to the PDA's future.

My fear is if they wait for the PDA market to pick up they will never release a new communicator.

I'm sure a new communicator will sell well. There are lots of people here who would but one. I also I think it would be adopted by business for their applications as Symbian is becoming more of a main stream OS now. Perhaps that's what they are waiting for?

The day of the new communicator is tricky indeed. Apart from the technical difficulties that Nokia must face to integrate new technologies in a small packadge (who forgot the instabilities of the first 9210's ?), the ratio cost production/demand must be very hard to determine.

Of course, we all want a new com with gprs, camera, sensitive lcd screen and others... but at a price. And here, we are still a minority to understand the full potential of the 9210& i. When I bought mine, all of my friends were skeptical about what it could be used for. Even my girlfriend, who, I thought, was used to my strange habits of buying things no one would buy, was not convinced. And a part of myself wondered (shamefully) if i would really be able to use the small keyboard more than two minutes.

After nearly one year of extended loving of my communicator, I know I will buy the next one (still a matter of convincing my fianc�e, which is not always the easiest part of the deal). But honestly, it will have to improve a lot what I am doing with mine actually, and that must be what we all do with it, more or less. So think about the hesitations of a Newbie. And at Nokia, I am sure they know all this...

I agree with you Stargate and I'd personlly prefer to wait 6 or 8 months more in change of a good and new product,than having it tomorrow and have all the problems like the 9210 sw3.18 had!!! I had all the sw up-grades from 3.18 and I passed from 9210 to 9210i and even with the 9210i I passed from 5.33 to 6.0!!!! I have to say that the 92xx became sufficiently stable and reliable on sw versions 4.13 for 9210 and 5.54 for 9210i...Nokia better take some more time and give a really good product because I will refuse to spend more time in sw up-grades and in buying new model versions...

Just a thought 😉

I beg to differ, Godfather. If there is a new device out then you, like all us other committed Communicator addicts, will go right out and buy it as soon as you can. Then, like the rest of us, when upgrades become available, you'll go right on getting them until the warranty runs out. Then you'll be ready for the 94xx!

The other side of the coin is that the basic O/S for the 92xx is now well established and Nokia are into Evolution here, not Revolution, so the probability of seeing more problems like with v3.18 on the 93xx should be pretty low.

Personally, still running an early 9210 with an original firmware, I can't say I've suffered any software problems with the device. Unfortunately it's now on it's last legs as the casing is falling apart, most of the phone side buttons no longer work and the CBA buttons work 50% of the time. I still wouldn't do without the 9210 though, brilliant device, and it seems with the delay in the new version I may be forking out for a 9210i as a stop gap once the 9210 finally dies.

Oh man! Bomber! :cry:

Was kinda expecting a scoop on the new Communicator! but found out to my dismay otherwise. :x

[quote="SwitchBlade"]Personally, still running an early 9210 with an original firmware, I can't say I've suffered any software problems with the device. Unfortunately it's now on it's last legs as the casing is falling apart, most of the phone side buttons no longer work and the CBA buttons work 50% of the time. I still wouldn't do without the 9210 though, brilliant device, and it seems with the delay in the new version I may be forking out for a 9210i as a stop gap once the 9210 finally dies.[/quote]

That could be an idea... 😊

[quote="SwitchBlade"]Personally, still running an early 9210 with an original firmware, I can't say I've suffered any software problems with the device. Unfortunately it's now on it's last legs as the casing is falling apart, most of the phone side buttons no longer work and the CBA buttons work 50% of the time. I still wouldn't do without the 9210 though, brilliant device, and it seems with the delay in the new version I may be forking out for a 9210i as a stop gap once the 9210 finally dies.[/quote]

My advance and sincerest condolences! :cry:
Well like they always say, in the end there is always a bright new beginning! 😉