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Windows Phone and How it Stacks up Against iOS and Symbian: Part 1

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I don’t want to make this into a review like you’ve read so many times over on every other site.  I don’t want to bash or defend the lack of multi-tasking, cut and paste, facebook/twitter integration, long load times, lack of apps compared to other platforms, etc.  While these are all important issues, I think … Read more

Free Phone Anyone?

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Ok, I know they are Nokias.  I can read.  But they are FREE!!!  Sell the darn thing for some spare cash!  They aren’t worthless, just useless(I jest, they are only very unproductive).  If you like freebies, basically you tell Nokia “which Ovi Store app you find most useful” and they’ll reward the “best answer” with … Read more

Symbian^3 Ready For Primetime

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On August 2nd, Nokia announced via their blog that work on Symbian^3 has been completed as of June 17th.  Nokia says that the next step is to begin: tweaking and testing its settings to make sure it works optimally with the hardware on the forthcoming Nokia N8 and the family of Symbian^3 devices that will … Read more

Another Screen Test N8 vs Omnia HD vs Milestone

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People just love to compare screens don’t they? Here’s one of a normal AMOLED(Nokia N8) pitted against a SuperAMOLED(Samsung Omnia HD) and a standard LCD(Motorola Milestone).  The LCD clearly has the worse viewing angles of the three.  You can make up your own minds about which is ultimately the best.  However I think comparing SuperAMOLED … Read more

Symbian: The Next Generation

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While Symbian’s condition isn’t pretty, it’s not all doom and gloom for the world’s largest smartphone OS.  Symbian still has a lot going for it, and if Nokia can get all their ducks in a row they have the potential to make themselves a formidable rival against Android and iOS

Quality Control – The main problem with Symbian S60v5 was the overall usability and stability.  They simply didn’t do enough testing and research to figure out the best way to implement the UI.  The OS has a very thrown-together feel to it.  In addition, there were just too many bugs in initial releases.  My N97 was practically unusable until firmware version v11 and the 5530 XpressMusic had kinetic scrolling enabled only in a few areas(the main menu was not one of them) which added to confusion as to when one could use it and when one couldn’t.  Releasing phones with beta-like builds of the OS is not going to make Symbian look good in anyone’s eyes.  Not to mention that not all consumers understand how to update their phones.  They expect the out of box experience to work, as they should.

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Russian Police Raid Mobile-Review on Nokia’s Behalf

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Nokia is pursuing legal action against Eldar Murtazin.  Nokia mainly wants to get the following message out: “To be perfectly clear, we have asked Mr. Murtazin for the return of all Nokia property in his possession. As he has declined to reply, we asked the Russian authorities to assist us. We leave it to the … Read more