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Originally Posted by carsncars
Yeah, with the exception of my 6300, many of my Nokias has been reduced to a creaking plastic mess in months (mind you, solid, working creaking messes!). They did look cool though, and Nokia has never been afraid of trying UNIQUE form factors, which I love about them. (I seriously wanted an N92 for the longest time...)
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you have to compare those phones with the phones that were available at that time and in comparison nokia was solid
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Nokia phones used to be the ones to have--just a few years ago, the N95 8 GB was definitely one of the top phones to have (remember when the original N95 came out and they were going for $1100 on RS classifieds?). Where Nokia first messed up is when the first iPhone came out, and when Android came out. Sure, those first iterations were flawed, and they weren't adopted in large enough numbers to threaten Nokia, but they should've seen what was coming.
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The N95 came out a few months after the 1st Apple Iphone
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Series 60, as powerful at it was, didn't offer the polish that iOS did. Compared to Android, it lacked the openness and flexibility to draw developers in. Then when Nokia finally figured out that they needed something to compete, what'd they do? They released phones with craptastic resistive touch displays and slightly warmed-over versions of S40/S60 OSes.
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agreed with most of that
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While I think Nokia is still in a position where it could, technically, survive with their own OS, I don't think they have the resources to do it. HP can stick by WebOS because they have gobs of cash to pour into R&D (three new devices launched today), along with an existing line of products they can stick WebOS on--Nokia doesn't have that luxury.
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Nokia has more than enough resources its R&D budget is like two-three times more than the other companies (granted much of that goes into areas other than their smart phones)
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It saddens me to say it, but I think the best thing Nokia could do now is adopt Android (or perhaps WP7?). I say Android because Nokia produces great, unique hardware and software; WP7 doesn't give them much software flexibility, but with Android they could customize it fairly deeply (a la Sony Ericsson's Xperia).
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Symbian and Meego offers more than Android, symbian/meego actually does and offers more where Android is
currently limited; that with the addition of the fact that Telecom companies of Europe Don't want Nokia to adopt Android (when an Industry cries 'No you don't' you should listen)
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I want to see some awesome handsets out of Nokia ASAP! The N8 feels amazing and has a great camera. Toss a more modern OS with a good developer community on it, give the screen a boost in resolution, get broader carrier support, all while retaining some of that Nokia uniqueness in industrial design and software (not another generic Android phone thing, please), and then we'll see.
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i think what you're saying with Modern OS must be the UI?? and Nokias coming out with an entirely refreshed UI for Firmware 2.0 which was slated for the End of February but it sounds like it may be pushed back to March (sigh)
as for a boost in resolution i'll quote from some1 else
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Go read up on Pentile vs regular RGB display resolutions.
This screen is better than the Nexus One's 480x800 pixels in size (252 pixels per inch) because the Nexus One's actual effective screen resolution is substantially less than that. The science is in how you count the pixels.
The PenTile subpixel layout on the Nexus One screen shows each pixel consists of a double-width blue or red subpixel element and a green subpixel element. The actual hardware resolution of the N1's display gives the illusion of 480x800, but no pixel contains all three colors.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...-and-hacks.ars
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