CLARIFICATION.
Listen all, I'm getting too het up about this, and your right, I know I shouldn't be.
So, just to help out all those for whom Xenon means NOTHING/Is not important, let me EXPLAIN something...
All Nokia handsets tend to have one thing on one handset, that another handset might not have...
An E51 being a great business phone, but no GPS... a 6220 being a solid feature rich phone in some respects, but without Wi-fi i another etc.
So indeed, through all of this, the end user simply has to choose the one CLOSEST to what he requires.
And in so doing, I could for example, elect to purchase say, a 6220 without Wi-fi, accepting that with an Unlimited Internet Plan already, this is not too great an issue for me.
So indeed, we have seen this all before.
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And it's a mighty big but...
What those who say "No Xenon is no great issue", or "just choose the one nearest to what you want then" are GROSSLY OVERLOOKING HERE, is that this is one aspect where things are different.
PLEASE - for those to who it matters, do not categorise "No Xenon" as being in the same boat as "No ilPayer, or no Wi-Fi etc".
You see, for those of us who use are phones heavily for photos too, Xenon is now an ESSENTIAL item.
And as such, it means that ALL phones that Nokia bring out are no use to us, as NONE have Xenon since the 6220 and N82.
That's the bit you all keep MISSING... whilst indeed, different features are nothing NEW for Nokia phones they release, there IS one NEW difference here, you all keep overlooking.
If Phone A is released, and does not have feature X that some people want, then don't panic, because not long after, phone B will be released, which WILL have feature X (but of course, dropping feature Y, that others prefer).
That's fair enough, that's called choice, and that is fine.
BUT WHAT YOU ALL OVERLOOK, is that having given us Feature Z all those years ago now (Xenon Flash), now Nokia have however brought out Phone A, Phone B, Phone C, Phone D, Phone E, Phone F and on and on and on, and NONE of them phones have feature Z (Xenon Flash).
That's the thing - this situation has NOT happened before.
It's all well and good telling us to "just choose something else then", but we HAVE NO CHOICE.
It's not like OTHER features on a phone, where if one phone doesn't have it, another new one released WILL.
That's the whole issue here... that Nokia are NOT releasing new phones with this feature, so we are NOT complaining that "I like the N97 but it has no Xenon, so I'll have to get the N86 that does have it instead" etc.
We are making a wholly NEW complaint here, not before seen with Nokia, that they are not releasing ANY new phone with Xenon.
Once you get your head round that, you'll THEN start to see why this is such an impassioned debate.
Because we are making a much more fundamental complaint - that NO new phones have a certain feature. Not just that the one phone we really like simply does not have a certain feature.
So, in simple terms, having given that admittedly small market segment of us something that we now see as essential, then by NOT including this on ANY future phones, Nokia have in plain terms, prevented us from upgrading to ANY new phone since, and will continue to hold us back, until they DO.
Is that so hard to understand, even if Xenon means nothing for you personally?