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torjus posted:This is great news!
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Jan 21, 2010 15:20
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Maybe if they bothered to get off their collective asses to write something unified and coherent we wouldn't have to worry about that poo poo.
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Feb 3, 2010 05:00
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torjus posted:As of today, Symbian is open source. I wonder what this will lead to.
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Feb 4, 2010 17:35
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That would interest me if the camera turns out to be anywhere near decent. (it won't) All I want from a phone is offline maps and nav, a good camera (a decent 5mp), QWERTY, and good audio quality that's not A) unbelievably expensive B) decent speed. (read: stop using 400MHz ARM11s, Nokia) I don't even need wifi to be satisfied. I highly doubt this'll be the phone. I'd be very surprised.
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Mar 13, 2010 20:44
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Symbian, though? Wrong OS. 
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Mar 23, 2010 15:30
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Gerudo Rivera posted:(slide qwerty, please?) (yeah yeah keep dreamin...)
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Mar 23, 2010 16:58
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And you can disable A-GPS.... er, somewhere in Symbian. Maybe in settings?
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Mar 24, 2010 16:05
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Stockholm syndrome.
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Apr 6, 2010 05:34
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I use ThreadSMS, though there's no way to disable the Nokia built-in message popup. 
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Apr 17, 2010 18:10
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+ Xenon Flash! - No keyboard - No Maemo No sale. I shall continue waiting.
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Apr 27, 2010 01:13
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Dr Tran posted:First video sample from the N8 is quite jaw dropping. No way.
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Apr 28, 2010 17:26
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Civil posted:Speaking of dusting off a N82, mine is covered with dust inside the screen. I'm always wiping the screen hoping that it's somehow outside the phone rather than inside. If I do manage to get the face off to wipe the dust away, is there anything I should do to prevent dust from getting right back in? I just dusted my N82 of inside dust 5 minutes ago before coming here. I need to do this every couple of months.
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May 16, 2010 03:09
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That's thoroughly broken. Certainly doesn't happen on my N82. I'd tell you where to look up prediction settings but trying to find a setting in S60... 
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Jul 21, 2010 20:52
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Dr Tran posted:Resale value! White iPhone 4 is funding my N8 purchase. 
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Aug 5, 2010 14:39
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HPL posted:Symbian is largely dead as a development platform too. The only people of note cranking out new software these days are Nokia Beta Labs. )
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Sep 9, 2010 22:42
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This feels like it's veering off-topic a bit, but: 1. I'm not buying Apple. 2. I want HD video recording. 3. I don't want a subsidized phone/It must be unlocked. 4. Must be out within the next 6-8 months, since my N82 is on its last legs. (phone is literally falling apart and I'm not paying for parts) The options I'm left with are slim at best, and considering a phone's camera is my #1 selling point, the N8's the most desirable option.
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Sep 10, 2010 04:04
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200th Poster posted:I figured I'd follow up on this now that I've spent some time with it, but it was actually easier to get root on the galaxy s than on the n900. Go figure. I really hope the recent staff changes helps Nokia get their poo poo in gear, because this is ridiculous.
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Sep 14, 2010 17:36
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I'm 99.9% confident it'll mean that there won't be a single unified Symbian^3. It'll be just like S60, where different models of the same phone and different phones based on the same platform get arbitrary system/software updates that leave them in various states of nice and not so nice. Yes I'm still bitter about my N82.
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Sep 14, 2010 18:26
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Dr Tran posted:Reminds me of how white people hate Islam. Where does one even start with that?
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Sep 17, 2010 00:24
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It's more like GOVEEEEERNMEEEEEEENTS. 
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Sep 28, 2010 16:02
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Society doesn't like it when people stick the camera end of phones up women's skirts. What a shock. as easily as you can get angry at government.
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Sep 28, 2010 16:43
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Is it true that they have all 5 bands in one phone? It's not multiple versions? If so, that's big news for us Canadians.
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Oct 1, 2010 18:02
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My #1 question that I haven't seen in any review: What happens when you receive an SMS?
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Oct 8, 2010 23:37
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 Looks like I'll be buying a 3rd party SMS app again.
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Oct 8, 2010 23:59
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Take the N97 back. Seriously. Go take it back. Before it's too late.
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Oct 10, 2010 15:49
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Do the pop-ups have a message summary at all, or do I need to open up the messaging app? (I'm assuming the threaded Conversations app can replace the built-in messenger as the default SMS?)
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Oct 15, 2010 22:02
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Peven Stan posted:Having two platforms going simultaneously seems kind of risk. I would rather they focus on MeeGo and bring that to market than split their resources between two competing camps for the future of Nokia smartphones. Nokia could find themselves in a very enviable position. Symbian is definitely a smartphone OS - it just needs... well, the spit and polish that it hasn't gotten over the last decade. And it can run on what is now featurephone hardware, and run well. The same cannot be said for Android, MeeGo, or iOS. Nokia just needs to capitalize on that and make use of MeeGo to compete with Android/iPhone. Whether they can move faster than a glacial pace or not, though... four iterations of the iPhone and an upcoming Android 3.0 and Nokia's barely got their first foot out the door on a new N-series device running an OS that's going to be relegated to lower-end phones for the next generation.
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Oct 26, 2010 04:31
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We'd have to find a Rogers store that carries a live demo unit, not just a plastic stand-in. I doubt it exists.
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Nov 12, 2010 18:06
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So long, N82. You have been a trusty friend and navigator for the 3 years I've had you. I won't miss your software though. gently caress Symbian and Nokia's lies and empty promises. With Nexus S in hand I am off to the land of Google, where software updates arrive with regularity and the built in browser is actually worth using.
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Dec 16, 2010 21:40
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So, like a dumbass, I buy back into Symbian.  I really, really loving miss the Nexus S software, but the thing felt like a cheap toy, and I'm going on a trip soon and the camera in the Nexus S was simply awful. No better, maybe even worse, than my old N82. It also helps that I was able to sell it up here in Canada at a profit and then buy the N8 $250 cheaper from Newegg.ca. Stockholm syndrome.  So as it is I already hosed up my N8. It stopped booting (I have absolutely no idea why, honest to god) so I did a master reset, aaaand as a google suggests this was a bad idea. So no Ovi Store for me anymore. (yes I have reinstalled QT, I get "PIPS Installer" errors) Nokia Care told me to wait for a firmware update to see if it fixes it, or send it in and they'll reflash everything. Of course they also told me that the firmware update would come in January. Oh how I remember these promises of firmware updates from my N82 days. The next major problem is a lack of Japanese character support in the .ttf files bundled on NAM N8s. Why the hell they do this is beyond me. It's trivial to place fonts in E:\resource\fonts and get the N8 to render Japanese characters, but finding a font that works as well on the screen as the default S^3 is a pain in the rear end. As a final note: thank god for Opera. It may be buggy, it may crash from time to time, yet somehow it's still infinitely better than the piece of poo poo browser Nokia still ships. God, it's mindboggling, why the gently caress did I do this. LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jan 31, 2011 |
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Jan 31, 2011 21:23
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Civil posted:I hope you forgive me if I bask in your pain for a bit... quote:I think that the only advantage that the symbian phones have is that they have a good camera built into them. quote:If the Nexus S is anything like the other Galaxy S phones, they all felt plasticky and cheap. HTC and Moto make phones that feel a bit more substantial. quote:I hope your firmware comes and saves your phone, but sadly, I don't think it will. LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jan 31, 2011 |
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Jan 31, 2011 22:54
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whatever7 posted:Those Nokia phones are freaking thick. My N8 is modestly sized. Sure it's no Nexus S or iPhone 4, but I see a lot of other people with condoms on their slimmer phones that make them just as thick or thicker than the N8. More to the point, I don't care. The N8 is not larger than my pocket like a 4-or-more-inches model. It's also not as thick as a brick, despite feeling as solid as one, and that's another reason why I went back. The N8 simply feels fantastic to hold in your hand, more so than any other touch screen phone I've held. (provided you don't need to hit that menu button at the bottom) 
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Feb 1, 2011 06:01
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I've also called Nokia Support to see if they even have language packs, or anything remotely similar. They said "no" and that they won't solve the problem. Just kept repeating that "language support is based on the region you bought the phone in."
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Feb 9, 2011 17:25
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I have no good will towards Nokia. I know why I bought my N8 and I know when I'm getting rid of it. Your best bet to get international language support is to try and convince someone from the region you'd like to copy the fonts off their Z: and send them to you. I tried pleading on Howard Forums for someone with a HK phone to do this, but I had no luck in getting a response. If you do get your hands on the .ttf files, you can just drop them in E:\resource\fonts on your N8 (hook up your N8 in mass memory USB mode or you don't get write access) as the following: nosnr60.ttf nssb60.ttf nstsb60.ttf S60ZDIGI.ttf And you're good to go. You can use any unicode TTF font file in there, actually. Just rename anything from your Windows/Mac to those 4 files. Be warned, though, that the majority of TTFs you'll find take up a lot more screen space than the S^3 font. Also be warned that the S60v5 font is different than S^3 and that, while it works and will render int'l fonts, looks ugly when rendered on S^3. [edit] And if you're that obsessed with getting int'l fonts without Nokia's help, you can try flashing your N8 to a different region's firmware without changing the product code, grabbing the .ttf files, then flashing back. This is risky business and may or may not cost you your Ovi Store access like a hard reset would. Oh, and the Nokia font is proprietary/copyrighted/possibly trademarked, so you won't be finding it if you're thinking about the Symbian open source repository. And the (Droid Sans font family from Google won't work either since all the int'l symbols are embedded in a "DroidBackup.ttf" that's separate from the primary DroidSans.ttf, and Symbian simply won't do anything with it. [edit2] If you live in a Euro region or any region with actual, physical Nokia care centres, you can try visiting. I don't though, so fun times! LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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Feb 10, 2011 00:57
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The problem with Segoe is that it doesn't have a huge unicode bank for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters. It does have Cyrillic and Arabian though.
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Feb 10, 2011 01:25
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JSW2 posted:(Edit: Okay, apparently you bought it for the same reasons I want it, Ovi Maps and the camera.) The N8 has until the time I get back from most of my travels (June) to be improved or I will once again ceremoniously dump Nokia, build quality or not. Every day I use my N8 I get more and more frustrated, now that I know what sweet, sweet Android nectar tastes like. quote:One final question though: If I go through the steps of placing a new font in E:\, is it pretty simple to revert to the original S^3 fonts? quote:As far as the Symbian repository goes, isn't the Chinese font (and therefore possibly others) open-sourced? I could've sworn I read that while trying to find more info on this. quote:What OS are you running? Android or Symbian? LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 10, 2011 |
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Feb 10, 2011 05:34
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Adopt Android, port Qt to Android, port Ovi Store to Android, run Qt apps on both Android and Symbian. Or just hire an ex-Microsoft execute and hand them the reigns to your company. Gonna quote the joke going around: Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0.
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Feb 11, 2011 16:47
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DuckConference posted:So much for my N8 getting better software down the line. I wonder if they'll even bother with 2.0 now (or even rolling out 1.1). Nokia just effectively abandoned everything. Elop said we'll see "enhancements" to Symbian, but yeah loving right. Still waiting for 1.1 to hit NAM and I've heard that update song and dance and that was before Symbian was abandoned. Welp, time to start looking at Android phones again, build quality or not. LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Feb 11, 2011 |
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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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