I found your email amusing, because I wrote similar one then decided not to send it. While I agree with our sentiments, I see things differently.
My opinion is that Nokia will be late to the game (no special insight needed there!) with a MeeTo phone (sorry, I just had to!) But I think a couple things will be different... 1. the production costs will probably be dirt cheap for less affluent markets. 2. Why they put a 12MP camera on their flagship phone is beyond me. Anyone who wants a super camera would just get a regular camera. Photography does not make the PHONE. However having high ISO speeds (3200 or faster) for low-light environments would go farther with users than more MPs. 3. The screen is too low resolution. Even the HTC Shift (same screen size) has 800x480 (N8=640x360) Each phone platform has a gimmick. iOS = Jobs's vision of simplicity and authoritarian control Android = Opposite of iOS Rim = Business Nokia = ?? A couple things Nokia could get right/do differently: 1. Dual core. It remains to see what can happen in the mobile space, but smoother multitasking and longer lasting batteries are possible results if the threading can be done right. 2. A REAR multi-touch interface could be killer. Talk about a gaming device! Not having to cover the screen you're looking at when using it would be revolutionary. You can even implement the rear touch interface UI as a partially transparent overlay. A rear keyboard would be weird, but very interesting, particularly if you could show finger points. (Full screen keyboard) 3. OFFICIALLY support Qt on Anroid, iOS as well as MeeGo and Symbian, which Adobe is the only other one that can claim that level of x-platform. This would bring apps to the late arriving Nokia platforms. 4. Being all native code. I love Qt, and I'm looking to replace my 3GS in June when my contract is up. I would love to have a Nokia phone, but it looks like it will be an Android one. :-( I'll keep watching though. ----- Original Message ---- From: Randolph Dohm <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Development for the MeeGo Project <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 3:50:48 PM Subject: [MeeGo-dev] Meego Hardware Release Dear Mr. Elop, you left germany with one plant to romania and many germans have not bought a nokia for that for a long time. RIM overtook the plant. Last autumn I bought a Nokia N8, awaiting Meego. I hope it will be released in Las Vegas within two weeks. Nokia does not need a new Powerpoint Presentation of new Strategies. Get out of the tower of assistants providing you with slides and graphics for strategies. That is the difference to Steve Jobs, he holds a product in his hands. Please get the stuff on the road. Many developers already wait for their Apps to be released for Meego. Why dont you announce a release date for MeeGo? And we need not the binaries, we need a Hardware for it, even if you make a pre-release for the developers on the old fat N900, but we definately need a HARDWARE to buy with MeeGo. Thanks a lot for supporting the MeeGo OS with more people working on it. All the Qt Apps will be ported and why did you acuqired Trolltech? Get the final beta to a release please. I wait a Webpage on the nokia homepage, where users can pre-order a MeeGo Phone, even it is delivered in April/Mai. Today the competition is not about hardware anymore, about who has more megapixels or DBV-T integrated or more mp3 functionality. Today it is all about the Operating System only. It does not matter if you buy a Samsung or Dell Streak phone, it is about the Operating System, and here Nokia has the link to MeeGo and Qt, please give it a start that the community can develop Apps with a release of a MeeGo Hardware pre-Order webpage. If you are not able to get even an order page for a Meego Hardware onto the street, please overgive your job to one who is able to. Nokia needs a CEO which can sell as well, not one who steers technically or analyzes financially. Quim, Windows Mobile is such a hoax, they did it quick and dirty, most functions are missing, Quim, why is nokia not able to prepare the Qt devleopers with a hardware framework which simply works on mobile phones and can be in further steps developed? Thanks a lot for a meeting of you both for giving the public a start of the MeeGo-Hardware sell process. Please get in touch. Randolph Dohm _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
