Nokia N8

[TW]Fox · 4 May 2010 at 07:53

hsiaolc said:
Wait for the Iphone 4g

Sorry?

Seft · 4 May 2010 at 11:20

Tunney said:
Because they don't want to put their future in the hands of one of their rivals.

Or, rather they are backing the only two completely open* mobile operating systems, which is really quite admirable.

Also worth adding 6300 to the list of solid Nokia phones

* Although, before the flaming starts, Android is pretty much open enough

Columbo · 4 May 2010 at 11:39

Christo said:
Its a revamped version of the OS, its still pretty crap though.

How do you know that?

OK the code is available, but a handset is not yet pubicly available so judgement has to be reserved surely.

A guy I speak to on another forum has been trying to develop S3 for a Samsung I8910 and it is not going well because the hardware drivers simply don't exist and S60 5th drivers cannot be used.

That seems to suggest its not re-vamped but a totally new set of code.

Also all applications for S3 are being developed within Qt which is a huge step in the right direction.

Columbo · 4 May 2010 at 11:42

borich_planner said:
Why don't Nokia just make phones and put Andriod on their phones?

Because competition and choice is a good thing.

Tunney · 4 May 2010 at 12:13

ManCuBuS said:
A guy I speak to on another forum has been trying to develop S3 for a Samsung I8910 and it is not going well because the hardware drivers simply don't exist and S60 5th drivers cannot be used.

That seems to suggest its not re-vamped but a totally new set of code.

The graphics and networking architectures have both changed substantially in Symbian^3.

If anyone fancies writing apps for Qt/Symbian^3, the new Nokia Qt SDK is a big step forward.

Amp34 · 4 May 2010 at 12:31

[TW]Fox;16486864 said:
Sorry?

Well obviously, phones being released in a few months are better than phones being released now.

Personally i'm skipping all the new phones out now and waiting for the Desires 2012 cousin, going to be a lot better than the desire!

RSR · 5 May 2010 at 08:55

Amp34 said:
Well obviously, phones being released in a few months are better than phones being released now.

Personally i'm skipping all the new phones out now and waiting for the Desires 2012 cousin, going to be a lot better than the desire!

I'm waiting on the Xperia X20