Ahead of their annual Smartphone Show, Symbian has released a number of in-depth podcasts, with interviews with many of the leading managers in the smartphone industry. All are in MP3 format, you can download them here.
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Symbian's pre-Show podcasts
Just listening to the Vodafone guy and it's really winding me up. There's one thing they don't understand: I DON'T WANT THEIR CONTENT. All I want them to do is give me voice connectivity and access to the internet at reasonable cost. For years they've been restricting our access to the internet so that they can sell us ringtones, music, 'multimedia messaging' and a heap of other content and services that we DON'T WANT. The content is already there on the internet: give me access to it. WAP failed to take off because of their walled gardens and crappy 'content'. Then came MMS; I don't know anybody that uses that. And how did they try to sell 3G to the public? With video calling fer heavensake; who the hell wants that? Give me reasonable cost access to the internet with no protocol blocking, and I'll buy their service. I suspect a lot of other people will too. Why doesn't somebody ask the Vodafone guy why I'm not allowed to view streaming .3GP video on their useless network? They stop me doing what I want to do but continue to invest in content and services that I DON'T WANT. AAAaaaarrrrggghh!
Lots of people agree with this. See here for more, for example!
Steve
Wow what an inspiring thinker! Feel better that someone like him is involved with Symbian. But I have to say that given that some basic functions still do not work on Symbian devices (like sync of categories with Outlook) you wonder if Symbian are trying to be too innovative...