In All About Symbian Insight 111 (AAS Podcast 175), Rafe and Steve talk about the outstanding value provided by the Nokia 5230 (highlighting T-Mobile's recent offer). We also look at Mobile Documents, with an emphasis on its file streaming technology, as well as Shazam's 1 million downloads from Ovi Store, the Nokia 6788i and MM-Ovi Store before considering some listener questions. You can listen to AAS Insight 111 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
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Could you please use only ONE numbering scheme and abandon two numbers (like 111 and 175)? This is very confusing.
Title needs to be corrected - 111, not 110.
I am a geek and care only about the newest and best. Could not care less about expanding markets on low-end etc. Even worse, if the cheapest phone has the same OS and similar capabilities (the same slow processor, same screen etc.) as the flagship, it destroys flagship uniqueness and exclusivity.
Ian2 wrote:
I am a geek and care only about the newest and best. Could not care less about expanding markets on low-end etc. Even worse, if the cheapest phone has the same OS and similar capabilities (the same slow processor, same screen etc.) as the flagship, it destroys flagship uniqueness and exclusivity.
Well, the only really high end, exclusive Nokia device is the N900, at the moment.
I also would like to see a best of the best MeeGo device from Nokia, something to compare with the HTC Evo or the Desire, which pretty much are the mobile phones to beat at the moment, even surpassing the iPhone.
But I suspect, despite an occasional device, that Nokia mainly wants to play in emerging markets (i.e. India, China, South America) where they can leverage their brand name on cheaper hardware.
I call B.S. on the "little issues with the Ovi store, such as search"!
Let's face it - if it happened to Apple, the app store would not go online until issues are fixed, and whoever was responsible for shoddy search would be looking for another job.
Nokia needs to make their developers/engineers understand that their life and income depends on QUALITY of their work. Maybe that way they would not be allowed to release untested products that simply don't perform as to specs.
Ask yourself this: what would you think of a pharmaceutical company that has similar work ethics to Nokia? Release the drug first, and then see based on customer feedback if it is safe to use in humans, cause nobody bother to test it before launch?
I thought so...
My god, that is one incredibly crap analogy!
Seriously, you're comparing a situation in which an actual human being might become sick or die to one where - at the very most - some tosser isn't satisfied with something they blew their disposable income on? Get real...
If you didn't notice reading it the first time, I wasn't comparing the products. I was talking about work ethics.
Just because life doesn't depend on the quality of your job doesn't mean you can do it in a half a** way. Your customers deserve better...
For the record, I'm a tester by trade (I had nothing to do with the Ovi store though) and take pride in my work - and I'm baffled by how something so utterly broken could be released. I totally disagree that the (often statutory) rigour applied to testing pharmaceuticals is *essential* for consumer electronics though. Nokia should be warned by now that they musn't make similar mistakes again - for their own benefit, not for any moral or ethical reasons. After all, it's not like the deliberately released it like that just to piss people off.
Ian2 wrote:I am a geek and care only about the newest and best. Could not care less about expanding markets on low-end etc.
And your point is what exactly? This is allaboutsymbian.com and not allaboutsymbianbutonlyforgeeks.com... just because you're not interested in lower-end devices does not mean they should not be discussed, especially when the device in question would have been considered high-end 2-3 years ago and now costs next to nothing...
walmark wrote:Ask yourself this: what would you think of a pharmaceutical company that has similar work ethics to Nokia? Release the drug first, and then see based on customer feedback if it is safe to use in humans, cause nobody bother to test it before launch?I thought so...
I'm with Brendan Donegan on this one; it's a rubbish analogy, and slightly insulting to the pharmaceutical industry to boot...
You're quite right that the Ovi Store search function is not worthy of the name, but there are more appropriate analogies than the one you chose.