Announced at the same time as today's Nokia Bicycle Charging kit are four new low end Nokia C series phones. While none of these phones run Symbian or would be considered anything close to a smartphone, they do offer a timely reminder that low cost devices continue to dominate overall sales. The C1-00 (€30) and C2-00 (€45) are Nokia's first dual SIM phones, a feature that some smartphone users would love to have. Moreover they illustrate the breadth of Nokia's service ambitions with the C2-00, C1-01 and C1-02 phones supporting Nokia Messaging and Ovi Life Tools. It is such devices that will, on a global basis, be the biggest engines for social change.
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Yes, it's when you consider the relative sales numbers and as you say even more so the installed base, that you realise how HUGELY significant J2ME (Java mobile, MIDP) apps are in the grand scheme of things. Fragmentation and development difficulties or not (which are in fact MUCH less these days than they were when J2ME got it's poor reputation - the platform is now much more stable and capable).
iPhone and Android apps get vast amounts of hype, but well over 3 billion phones run J2ME whereas only 50 million run iPhone apps. Yes, not all of those J2ME phones are accessible due to this, that and the other problem, but the usable installed base still makes iPhone a tiny fraction, and Android barely worth registering.
Also, standard and free UI libraries like the officially Sun developed LWUIT can give amazing and professional UI experiences across all MIDP2 phones these days.
The other big significance in amongst all the app hype these days is the above handsets (C1-00 excepted, as it is with J2ME, as it's Series 30) can access the mobile web with a great browser, so web is still highly relevant too. For hundreds of millions of people, these sorts of handsets will be their only net access device. Worth remembering.
Dual SIM phones? Where do I sign? I want it now.
S40 has a limit of 1024MB for the jar size and no backgrounding unless your app is "blessed"
Unregistered wrote:S40 has a limit of 1024MB for the jar size and no backgrounding unless your app is "blessed"
1024MB, of course I meant 1024KB
> S40 has a limit of 1024KB for the jar size and no backgrounding unless your app is "blessed"
So what? If you're even a half decent developer this is not really any sort of limit as far as I can see. Remember - you can't possibly compare this to any other platform - S60, iPhone, Android, because the point is people in the developing world don't (and almost certainly never will have) iPhones or Androids. You have to work with what any specific individual person has available - and the point is, that's J2ME. That they have that at all is a joy and a blessing, so much can be done with it these days, it's incredible.
@Rafe Blandford
"Nokia is one of only two companies, the other is Samsung, that offer a complete range of mobile products, from low-end to high-end, on a global basis ..."
How about LG? It does have dual sim too, and they "offer a complete range of mobile products, from low-end to high-end, on a global basis" !! 😊
No disrespect but i think LG is one big player too on mobile scene, don't you agree ? I think you forgot to add LG to the big ones!! 😊
The C1-02 goes for 35 euros. It makes no sense for a phone to be more expensive than its camera equipped brethren (C1-01). You might want to change the numbers.
There are a gazillion different dual, triple and even dual GSM+CDMA phones available in my neck of the woods but what I'm waiting for is an S60 based dual SIM phone. It's a royal pain to transfer 700-odd contacts via BT, IR or worse still, manually from the usual primary phones (Androids, S60v5s, Crackberrys etc.) to backup phones like these running on ancient S30 and S40 platforms. Still, it's a decent start. The day seamless Ovi integration comes over on a Nokia dual SIM phone, I'll be sure to dump my BB, Hero (and 5800) and truly enter the world of multi-SIM mobiles.
To my mind LG doesn't quite make it - though I agree it is close. I think LG smartphone portfolio leaves a bit to be desired. You could say the same thing about Samsung, but that's clearly going to change this year.
Pricing corrected - thanks for that.
Please leave your racist assumptions outside please.
the point is people in the developing world don't (and almost certainly never will have) iPhones or Androids
A poor prediction, based on dubious politics. Many members of the emerging middle class have iPhones or Androids today. The rest certainly know what an iPhone is and many want one, or a cool Android.
If you look at real projections of economic development there will be 2.5 billion potential prosperous customers in India and China within the next twenty years.
Unregistered wrote:Please leave your racist assumptions outside please.
No, you brought that through the door. The article might have been uninformed or over simplified but it was not racist!
[quote="Jejoma"]
No, you brought that through the door. The article might have been uninformed or over simplified but it was not racist![/quote]
The article was good, I was referring to the comment. Please try and follow the discussion more carefully.
Unregistered wrote:The article was good, I was referring to the comment. Please try and follow the discussion more carefully.
Apologies, I meant comment, not article. Regardless, my view still stands.
As does my bias against people who hide behind "Unregistered" Sorry about that 😊
And what's this news piece doing on allabout"symbian".com!!!
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Nokia C1-00 which is very simple Nokia set and i like to this mobile set because its cheapest in the Pakistan.