Let's hope enough developers take advantage then.
Does Symbian need crowd pleasing reference hardware?
Unregistered wrote:Well, the N8 pretty much looks like a pleaser to me already. It even beats the living crap out of the HTC Android's by a wide margin in performance:
That does seem to be a big improvement, including over the N97. However, what I can't tell is the practical impact. There's a lot of technical terms there. What types of apps are we likely to notice this improvement?
I notice that iPhone 4 appears to outperform the N8 on about half the tests, while the N8 outperforms it on about half the tests.
Folks, I know Europe does not like to hear this. But Shear Number of Users are in India and China. The markets are awash with Nokia handsets.
The developers have been Indian for some time.
The Makers of the Hardware have been Chinese for some time.
So why are we surprised when the Design of the Software on these phones are lack luster?
The industry in those two locations are not quite what you would refer to as Mature.
When Nokia wakes up and puts the Finland Crew BACK in charge of Software and Hardware and quality control, stops looking at the freggin bottom line and looks at quality first and makes that the job, not saving a buck and squeezing out units enmasse so they can snow under Apple and Android, then you will again have a product that will be in the hands of every Hollywood Star, DC Politician, and the work a day Exec or Blue Collar workers.
Right now the two markets that I described are just figuring out there is a use for two way video on a handset. Something that Nokia has been doing for years. But the Networks have yet to be able to handle the bandwidth requirements to make it possible and wide spread use.
GPS and Navigation is a bust out hit so the Graphic screens with the GPS are a Major plus in China and India as well.
For what that matters in these two places who cares if Google Anything works on a Nokia? The Indians and Chinese do not, so there is no reason to see why Google would want to devote much staff beyond the token efforts so far to ensuring the Symbian Hoard has proper Google Apps on par with the latest and greatest Android releases.
Yes, the N8 is promising, and the N900 series is the new heavy duty phone line. X looks to do more than mark the spot and ^3 and ^4 seem to be the direction of the world for Symbian right now. I just home these two areas finally awake to the fact that you need more than 128 MB of RAM on the main system memory and 128 MB of storage for other necessaries and increases it to a respectable 48 GB or so for each. The memory is out there for this and it is cheap.
Also the new dual core Snap Dragon CPU's look to be the direction to go as well for the Phones Main CPU. And how about a GPU for a change. Something that allows the snap and flow that makes everyone druel for....
Camera's are nice in a phone and I use mine quite a bit. But an Electronic Wallet my phone is not. Nor is it the Swiss army knife of on the go. I have an N97 and seem to find niche's it fills but just fills. It does not dominate anything and the paltry minimums for System RAM and Storage RAM of the main use area are an ab-oration. Nokia get it right or get out of the business.
All for now. Oh for a Perfect World.