Posts by Stephane Lenclud

Nokia's WinPho 8 double date announced

Re: @h4rm0ny

Well having worked on Symbian since 99 I could have told you not to buy an N97. No GPU, poor specs all over, first touch UI, resitive touch screen, cheap plastic body, this device and all the S60 5th edition range was doomed from the start. My guess at the time was that Nokia did not want to give Symbian touch good hardware knowing the software was rubish anyway. Anyone with a bit of a clue never bought into 5th editon. Trouble is it precisely the time where mass market was going into smartphone and they sold lots of them because people had no clue and thought Nokia is a safe buy. Most will never forgive Nokia for this. I as an 'insider' waited until they came up with something half descent to replace my E90 and ended up with an E7. Just wished it came with the specs of the 701 and 808. Other than that it is a quite a good smartphone. Too late though they switch to WP. 701 and 808 are just great though.

Apple iPhone

Welcome to the smartphone world

Giles Jones says "Apple has designed the first interface for a phone which really is designed for a phone and doesn't try to reinvent the WIMP environment for a phone." I'm afraid I have to disagree with that statement. There are quite a few companies out there which have been designing phones and smartphones for years. In fact they are phone manufacturers :) In case you never noticed the smartphone market is not shared between Windows and Apple. One thing I have to agree with is that Windows smartphone are no where close from well designed.

Windows smartphones are 5.6% of the market.

Symbian smartphones are 72.8% of the market.

Just check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone for instance.

Not a Mac maniac!?

Clay you're saying "This phone will change the way we look at mobile devices forever." and you claim not to a Mac maniac?!? IMHO there seems to be a few innovations in terms of GUI in that phone, thinking specifically about the automatically rotating display and graphical voice mail but that hardly sounds like a revolution.

Touch screens have been there for years on smartphones and most manufacturers do provide a stylus just in case you find it more convenient despite the fact that most applications are designed to be used with wide clumsy fingers.

I've even heard Apple advertising that it was the first internet phone?!? Just where were they hiding since y2k? Just how did they managed to miss all those smartphones SE, Nokia, Moto and others have been spamming the market with since y2k?

Since it's the first phone Apple ever produced I have no doubt it's lacking some essentials and is probably full of annoying little bugs/features. Even if they focus on one single device it will take them years before they have a good and mature product. That's just the nature of the beast. Smartphones are slightly more complicated than MP3 players. Fanboys bought it yesterday but will users buy it tomorrow? There is one sure thing: Apple is good at managing their brands and marketing campaigns. Read brain washing people :)