Nokia to use Android?

kamalakshantv

I agree that it puts lot of burden on developers and developing for Symbian on Linux platform is a pain. Regarding the Meego and Symbian plan - Meego will be supported on high end smart computers and tablets competing with other products in the iPhone and iPad range. And Symbian would be installed on devices in Mid Range smart phone category.

xsacha

I think using an Android device while Symbian gets its act together is fine.
But it will get its act together. I'm confident in a few months they'll refresh the UI. It seems the only issue people have with it is the UI. That's also actually the easiest part of the OS to change. Think about the UI in one of your apps. It's much harder to change the back-end code with custom assembler or what-have-you.

[quote author="QtK" date="1292169418"]Regarding the Meego and Symbian plan - Meego will be supported on high end smart computers and tablets competing with other products in the iPhone and iPad range. And Symbian would be installed on devices in Mid Range smart phone category. [/quote]
I don't consider the iPhone high-end. Unless they radically re-position their product in the next few months. It's a low to mid-end device that happens to have a lot of apps because it has a lot of customer base who are willing to pay money. When it first came out it was worse than a Series 40 phone in every conceivable way. The only thing that changed? The apps.

Meego is aiming at mobile computers (+phone). The same as Maemo is positioned now. The only competition is high-end Android's.

disperso

[quote author="xsacha" date="1292191606"]I think using an Android device while Symbian gets its act together is fine.
But it will get its act together. I'm confident in a few months they'll refresh the UI. It seems the only issue people have with it is the UI. That's also actually the easiest part of the OS to change. Think about the UI in one of your apps. It's much harder to change the back-end code with custom assembler or what-have-you.[/quote]

I think that the best move that Nokia has done in the recent months, is the decision of moving 100% to Qt. Since then, I think that I've seen an increase in the amount of traffic that the qml mailing list receives, and many are Nokia employees. I think this is great news for everybody.

[quote]I don't consider the iPhone high-end. Unless they radically re-position their product in the next few months. It's a low to mid-end device that happens to have a lot of apps because it has a lot of customer base who are willing to pay money. When it first came out it was worse than a Series 40 phone in every conceivable way. The only thing that changed? The apps.

Meego is aiming at mobile computers (+phone). The same as Maemo is positioned now. The only competition is high-end Android's.[/quote]

The iPhone is high-end in price. An unlocked iPhone costs more than an unlocked-anything. It certainly is limited in some aspects (when I saw that for the first time they allowed folders to sort the apps I looked with bright eyes my old N81), but it's powerful in the sense that people pay a lot for it, and are even willing to pay for apps. I still don't understand why angry birds was 1.x euro (spain, some weeks ago) and it was free on android. :P

xsacha

Angry Birds is ad-supported on Android (which is why it is free).

Although, I have come across a few apps that are free on Symbian but cost money on an iPhone.
A friend was playing with an app on my phone the other day and I asked him why he can't use his phone for it (he has an iPhone). He told me it wasn't worth $4 and it's free on mine.

But in general, the users are willing to pay more for everything. Which is why it is a great platform for making paid apps I guess.
It's also a good target market for Apple. High-end price with high-end (design/UI), low-end (features - S40 like) software and mid-end hardware.

milot.shala

Yesterday I was reading this which IMO is a very good article: "http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/12/some-symbian-sanity-why-nokia-will-not-join-google-android-or-microsoft-phone-7.html":http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/12/some-symbian-sanity-why-nokia-will-not-join-google-android-or-microsoft-phone-7.html