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dissss posted:The whole point of WP7s relatively strict hardware requirements is that any WP7 phone should provide the 'quintessential Windows Phone experience'. Really? http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-will-be-able-to-customize-everything-in-windows-phone-7/ It looks like Nokia will be able to do whatever they want with it.
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ZShakespeare posted:Really? If MS really let them do it do you think HTC and Samsung will continue to make phones for WP7?
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 01:36 |
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ZShakespeare posted:Really? They say they can but won't. Certainly sounds like they're all talk and will be just another hardware OEM
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 02:53 |
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whatever7 posted:If MS really let them do it do you think HTC and Samsung will continue to make phones for WP7? HTC, Samsung, and LG will continue making WP7 phones as long as they think they can make money doing so. Nokia still needs to establish a beachhead in North America, and until then those three are the only real source of Windows phones in this market. I couldn't see them giving up on the platform until then. dissss posted:They say they can but won't. If they are smart they'll take advantage of the leeway Microsoft is giving them on this. Nokia needs a killer feature that makes people want to buy their phone over the other WP7 devices out there, otherwise you are right and they'll just be a second rate OEM.
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ZShakespeare posted:HTC, Samsung, and LG will continue making WP7 phones as long as they think they can make money doing so. Nokia still needs to establish a beachhead in North America, and until then those three are the only real source of Windows phones in this market. I couldn't see them giving up on the platform until then. Or they could make lovely rear end WP7 phones and send them to die. Having phones in the US carriers lineups has nothing to do with the quality of the phones but everything to do with carrier relationship. Having a WP7 phone is by no means a guarantee you get to get in the carriers stores. quote:If they are smart they'll take advantage of the leeway Microsoft is giving them on this. Nokia needs a killer feature that makes people want to buy their phone over the other WP7 devices out there, otherwise you are right and they'll just be a second rate OEM.
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Not on the current topic, but as a way of giving back to the N8 users who have helped me so far I present you with this: http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Software-Updates/Official-Nokia-N8-PR1-1-Software-Release-Schedule/td-p/923407 They sorta published a release schedule. And promised to finish rolling out updates next week.
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whatever7 posted:Or they could make lovely rear end WP7 phones and send them to die. You asked if HTC et al. would stop making WP7 phones because of this and I answered with a definitive no, because there would be no reason for them to stop. All I'm saying is what I think Nokia should do to succeed. I'm not saying what they will do. I'm not a fortune teller, or time traveler. If I was, I sure as hell wouldn't be on this thing. whatever7 posted:What leeway you are speaking of? From the top of this very page that you quoted earlier. No other manufacturer gets this deal. This is why we don't have sense on HTC windows phones. ZShakespeare posted:Really?
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 05:33 |
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LiquidRain posted:Welp, time to start looking at Android phones again, build quality or not. Are there even any Android phones with metal cases and gorilla-glass screens? Apparently HTC still sucks at cameras too.
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 05:52 |
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Yeah, Elop himself said Nokia is free to do whatever they want, although they probably won't. I figure this is going to play out like Motorola's initial embrace of Android, in that Nokia will produce a "Droid-like" reference device that (hopefully?) puts Windows Phone on the map, followed by whatever Nokia comes up with to fill the "Motoblur-esque" skinning game.
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JSW2 posted:Not on the current topic, but as a way of giving back to the N8 users who have helped me so far I present you with this: http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Software-Updates/Official-Nokia-N8-PR1-1-Software-Release-Schedule/td-p/923407 DuckConference posted:Are there even any Android phones with metal cases and gorilla-glass screens? Apparently HTC still sucks at cameras too.
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LiquidRain posted:Android phones are all plastic and select few currently use Gorilla. My metal Droid would beg to differ. The main body of the Nexus One is also aluminum.
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I guess then I haven't reviewed all the Moto Droid models. I tend not to look in Moto's direction since they lock their bootloaders hard. The Nexus One does feel alright in the hand, I'll agree, but has a really lovely camera, and no Gorilla glass if that's a real concern. (an ardent Android friend with one also constantly complains about the wonky touchscreen) If I had to pick two Android devices for myself it'd be either the One or the G2/Desire Z, but neither are really as tantalizing as they could be. None of the upcoming Tegra 2 devices really excite me, they're not going in the direction I want to see handsets go. Regardless, *this* is totally off-topic, so I posit that if someone wants Android handset discussion - there's a very lively, thriving community over in another thread. vvv the Desire Z and One are based on the same platform, so yes that makes sense. LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Feb 12, 2011 |
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The Desire Z also has an aluminum body shell. No gorilla glass though.
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 06:16 |
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Yeah uh...most of HTC's phones from now on will be aluminum and the first Gorilla Glass phone I can even think of is the Droid so that's a laughable post. Also I've dropped my sans-Gorilla Glass Incredible on its face many times and it has escaped unscathed. Nut Bunnies fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Feb 12, 2011 |
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I came from a Nokia N900 to a Desire Z with a brief stopover in Samsungland. It's fantastic.
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 06:48 |
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Gorilla Glass is just a brand name - the glass on all HTCs devices is of pretty comparable quality. Yes you can scratch it (sand is particularly bad) but the same is true of the Droid etc
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ZShakespeare posted:I came from a Nokia N900 to a Desire Z with a brief stopover in Samsungland. It's fantastic. Are you able to get even a day with the Desire Z? I've considered ditching my iPhone 4 for one but everyone I speak to complains nonstop about the battery.
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 08:53 |
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I've been running the CM7 nightlies, and for the most part I just leave wifi, gps and automatic brightness on, and it makes it through the day easily. Some days when I'm out more I have to manage that stuff though. It's about the same as the Galaxy S and light years beyond the N900. The biggest factor I noticed is that you REALLY need to turn off wifi when you aren't using it or the gps, and turn on airplane mode when you are in an area with no signal (one of SFU's If you really want to get a lot of life out of an android you could always try juice defender. Also at one point I had a tasker profile that would disable mobile data when the device was asleep and turn it on every 10 minutes to check for emails etc and the thing would go for a couple of days. Mugen power makes an 1800mah battery that fits in with the stock cover too. All that being said, I wish it was better. The phone could really have benefited from at 1500mah battery.
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Godinster posted:Are you able to get even a day with the Desire Z? I've considered ditching my iPhone 4 for one but everyone I speak to complains nonstop about the battery. I get a full day browsing / tethering / texting / calling with my G2, about the same as my iPhone 4, maybe a little better since i started using CM7. The aluminum battery door also makes swapping batteries really convenient for when i stay out late or use the phone really extensively, and it boots really fast too.
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# ? Feb 12, 2011 10:26 |
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Space Racist posted:Isn't Nokia basically the national industry in Finland? I can see why it'd get so political over such a drastic shift. Space Racist posted:Shares are down 13% though? Ouch. I thought there'd be more positivity surrounding a new direction for Nokia, seeing as how the old one was working out for them.
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http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/12590_Reports_of_Symbians_death_have.php Take a look at the slide, 2nd image. Does anyone else think this will even happen? *continues waiting for 1.1* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Feb 14, 2011 |
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LiquidRain posted:http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/12590_Reports_of_Symbians_death_have.php Well who would buy a Symbian phone after last week's announcement if they think they'll never get an update? fake edit: The same people who thought they were going to get updates with any Nokia phone.
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# ? Feb 14, 2011 06:30 |
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Meego Tablet OS preview At least now I know why Nokia jumped.
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 01:13 |
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The Meego tablet interface was impressive a year ago when it debuted. It looks like it hasn't changed at all since then, and looks bad compared to Honeycomb.
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Vagrancy posted:Meego Tablet OS preview I hope the release version has that cursor the whole time too.
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LiquidRain posted:
Mine is updating
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 10:52 |
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Mine updated this morning. I can't feel a difference at all, in anything, even the mail app.
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 18:01 |
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I noticed that wifi is much more stable and holds a connection. Before the update the connection would hang frequently.
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# ? Feb 15, 2011 18:22 |
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I caved. I bought a G2. It doesn't have the camera but good lord it's so relieving. Just using the phone is such a joy coming from Symbian. The app market works, and it works so fast, and and and *drones on for pages* I'm keeping the N8 for an upcoming trip (for the camera) but will simply sell it after that. I'm debating if I'll even go that far with it and I'll just live without taking movies (or taking the half-assed movies the G2 has) while I'm travelling.
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# ? Feb 16, 2011 19:50 |
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I'm waiting for the day that there is a really good Android camera phone.
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ZShakespeare posted:I'm waiting for the day that there is a really good Android camera phone. Nokia kind of set the bar high, optics seemed to be the primary focus (heh) of a lot of their phones, and while a lot of android phones have decent cameras, none have really set out to differentiate themselves by having a terrific camera. If I were to guess, I'd say SE might come out with a cybershot android phone, but they seem to be going in other directions too.
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# ? Feb 16, 2011 20:45 |
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ZShakespeare posted:I'm waiting for the day that there is a really good Android camera phone. Yeah I'm in the same boat. Surely Zeiss does not have some sort of exclusivity agreement with Nokia? The camera on the HTC Desire Z is decent especially without flash.
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# ? Feb 16, 2011 21:18 |
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I think the biggest thing other phones have been missing is the xenon flash. Full daylight pics have been more than passable for awhile now (especially after some touchup), but low light situations suck and led flashes just don't get the job done. I just can't figure out why we don't seen more xenon flash phone cameras around. Do you have to make the phone thicker to accommodate them?
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bull3964 posted:I just can't figure out why we don't seen more xenon flash phone cameras around. Do you have to make the phone thicker to accommodate them? The G2 I bought (used, good deal, cheaper than my N8) may not have nearly the same quality camera, but I don't use the camera as often as I use the web browser and Gmail. (and now that I have access to a plethora of apps, I'm sure other things will pop up as well)
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bull3964 posted:I think the biggest thing other phones have been missing is the xenon flash. Full daylight pics have been more than passable for awhile now (especially after some touchup), but low light situations suck and led flashes just don't get the job done. Small sensor technology is slowly moving forward. We've had the first wave of backlit sensors come through and now there are a few other technologies coming around so if the sensor manufacturers can improve low light performance, having a xenon flash becomes less important because you can take a photo without a flash or you can take a photo with a lower-powered flash and get similar results because of increased sensor sensitivity. I agree though that having a xenon flash is pretty awesome and it's one feature I miss from my N82 days.
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# ? Feb 17, 2011 02:46 |
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I hope those rumors about the next iphone having a physical keyboard and a better camera are true, because although I will never buy one of those things, it might finally prod the rest of the industry into making more smart-featurephones so I can finally buy the convergence device i've always dreamed of, just in time for the Rapture
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# ? Feb 17, 2011 03:02 |
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After using an on-screen keyboard exclusively for the past year or so, I could never go back to a fat, bulky physical keyboard phone.
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# ? Feb 17, 2011 03:43 |
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big mean giraffe posted:After using an on-screen keyboard exclusively for the past year or so, I could never go back to a fat, bulky physical keyboard phone. I know people who profess the opposite to the point where it seems to be a largely religious argument between the two. Between my old Galaxy S and my Desire Z, I learned that I can swing both ways.
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# ? Feb 17, 2011 03:54 |
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After 1 day of fiddling with the G2/Desire Z, I switch between whatever works for me best at the moment. A quick SMS with all English words, I use Swype. Longer messages or anything involving abbreviations/addresses/etc, I use the keyboard.
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ZShakespeare posted:I know people who profess the opposite to the point where it seems to be a largely religious argument between the two. Between my old Galaxy S and my Desire Z, I learned that I can swing both ways. We'll never see one on an iPhone though. A better camera on the other hand is almost a given.
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