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From: John Navas on 13 Jul 2010 10:43 Symbian needs to cut to the chase and sort out its user interface, the organisation has been warned. The call comes from Gartner "distinguished" analyst Nick Jones who points out that while Symbian's still colossal market share is vanishing at an ever greater rate, the organisation behind the operating system still doesn't appear to have figured out why. It's the UI, stupid, to coin a phrase. That's Jones' argument, at any rate. Apple and Android deliver much better user experiences, and while Symbian 3 is a step in the right direction, phones equipped with Symbian 4 won't be out until well into 2011. Apple is making a virtue out of touchscreen ease of use. Android is trying to do the same, and if it's slightly less good at this kind of thing than Apple is, at least it has many more manufacturers lined up to not only promote Android-branded handsets but also add alternative GUIs to it. The Symbian Foundation, on the other hand, appears more obsessed with what's going on under the hood, says Jones. He's right. ... .... Jones reckons that this inability to move beyond the methodology of the past will be Symbian's undoing, and likens the Symbian Foundation's tinkering to "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic". And if Apple doesn't sink it, Android certainly will. MORE: <http://www.reghardware.com/2010/07/13/symbian_vs_android/>
From: Larry on 13 Jul 2010 23:23 John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote in news:louo3693lpj1vtcm0rn0mpsdk1bb3f4h25(a)4ax.com: > Symbian needs to cut to the chase and sort out its user interface, the > organisation has been warned. > Nokia N8 will be the LAST N-series phone to use Symbian on Nokia's high-end smartphones. By the next generation, the new MeeGo OS: http://meego.com/ whos preliminary handset version of Meego Linux for mobile devices has come out today. Nokia says all subsequent smartphones it produces will be using Meego, the marriage between Maemo Linux off the internet tablets and Moblin from Intel who is also a partner in this new OS. Obviously Nokia, worlds largest and most powerful cellphone manufacturer and Intel, worlds largest CPU maker are no strangers to marrying hardware and software in amazing ways. Check out the Meego website. I'm playing with dual booting to the netbook Meego on a Samsung NC10. Very cool on small screens. Meego is open source and FREE, of course.....supported by the Linux Foundation. -- iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships. Larry
From: Larry on 13 Jul 2010 23:35 Larry <noone(a)home.com> wrote in news:Xns9DB49B9B8819noonehomecom@ 74.209.131.13: > Meego is open source and FREE, of course.....supported by the Linux > Foundation. > > Crazy Meego. I see there's a new netbook update to the OS, itself, and a bunch of other stuff like Flash, Chrome, etc.....It even updates its OS from its OS! -- iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships. Larry
From: Larry on 13 Jul 2010 23:42
John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote in news:louo3693lpj1vtcm0rn0mpsdk1bb3f4h25(a)4ax.com: > Symbian needs to cut to the chase and sort out its user interface, the > organisation has been warned. > Oh, and I forgot. Symbian will be used on all Nokia and many other regular phones, not smartphones, in the future, where it shines with a huge lead in the market share worldwide......still. -- iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships. Larry |