At long last, this thread is opened...been very eager in joining the discussion

For me yeah, Symbian^3 delay really sucks. Maybe there were some important issues need to be rectify before its launch. We all know that Nokia's future depends on this one rather than the Meego platform, and I really hope that this delay will only bring in better result.
Heck we all know right what happens if half baked phones were released...*cough..N97 fiasco...cough*

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Added on April 23, 2010, 8:47 pmDell Lightning seriously looks tempting. But running WP7 really makes me somehow skeptical with its success. No doubt that it will sell loads but to be honest, this OS was not for me LOL.
For starters, I am not really like the pseudo multitasking it provides. And FFS why do Microsoft revert to the restrictive, dictatorship way of Apple when the ecosystem of Windows Mobile already quite open itself.

Anyone with me?

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Apr 23 2010, 08:47 PM

Yep. If Nokia and Symbian Foundation didn't get their act together, I feared that it will be surpassed by Apple.
Although been using Symbian phones rite now (X6 and N97), I'm really not the fan of it (Maemo/ Meego FTW!). But I'm super pissed off with the Apple- centric views of foreign blogs, which dismisses Symbian as a smartphone platform, eventhough they are the ones who defines what a smartphone is.

And bout the WP7 vs Iphone OS 4, I think MS was putting their bet on the XBox Live and Zune intergration for their trump card in the battle with Apple's iPhone. No comment yet as the platforms still didn't arrived in the market yet but surely interesting time ahead!

Yep..and to see that slowly sees that Apple bowing to consumer demand also a good sign. Apple surely one of the main contender in this growing smartphone battle.

For me, the card still lies on Symbian^3 and ^4. They have great consumer backing, great infrastructure support (QT and lots more), great manufacturer support (Nokia, Samsung etc) and great marketshare (the leading smartphone OS). Yes, I know that the current crop of Symbian flagships really was a let down in terms of performance etc. But looking back again, lets take for example N97, we can see how close Nokia were from producing a noteworthy phone. If only they did not skimped up the C: drive, the RAM and the proc, it could do much better. But look, eventhough with all the shortcoming, its sale were quite good. And that while still running the so called ancient OS

Now imagine if Nokia remedy all those problem. The rumored Nokia N8 and E7 really sounded great. And maybe they could become best sellers

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Added on April 26, 2010, 1:38 amLOLwut, dat is remote desktop

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Apr 26 2010, 01:38 AM