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Re: All About Maemo - Built-in one-touch contact access on the Nokia N900 desktop

Tzer2 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:26:36 -0000

Never had this happen to me on app launch.

Re: All About Maemo - A beginner's guide to customising the desktop on the Nokia N900

Tzer2 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:01:56 -0000

Right, it's now corrected!

Re: All About Maemo - A beginner's guide to customising the desktop on the Nokia N900

Tzer2 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:59:35 -0000

Sorry about that. To be fair though, in the actual video it's just "desktop".

The place where you switch between apps is the task switcher isn't it?

Re: The Nokia Music Store goes Live in India

Tzer2 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:12:00 -0000

One thing they might do is offer package deals like Comes With Music or their monthly subscription system. Then you wouldn't need to buy any specific tracks, you'd just be buying access to the entire collection.

Re: Nokia Officially Announces the N900 : Powered by Maemo

Tzer2 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:37:02 -0000

"and plays the Xvid video format out of the box"

Wow, didn't notice that one. That should be a big favourite with people who load videos from the internet, so much stuff is in Xvid now and it's annoying to have to convert it. Straight transfers are a lot more convenient.

Re: The Nokia Music Store goes Live in India

Tzer2 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:49:43 -0000

This is just a guess, but maybe they're really trying to launch the Nokia Music software, which lets you organise your existing music collection on your PC? I dunno... that doesn't make much sense either... :-)

Re: Nokia announces Nokia Money : Yay

Tzer2 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:25:07 -0000

Very very interesting news...

I think this is going to be completely misunderstood by tech bloggers in rich countries. Most of Nokia's customers live in developing countries so it makes sense that Nokia would want to get involved in services that suit their needs. People in developed countries fail to realise how important mobile phone banking is in the developing world, rich world users think mobiles are just for communication and entertainment.

Re: The Nokia Music Store goes Live in India

Tzer2 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:13:13 -0000

Erm... that sounds bonkers if it's true? Are you 100% sure there is no way to buy anything? Or maybe they plan to sell vouchers separately from phones?

I could understand an unannounced soft launch without a purchase option so they could test stuff, but why do a full launch if there isn't any way to buy things yet?

Re: Oviapplications Weekend Hits 08.15.09

Tzer2 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:11:39 -0000

(BTW your poll is slightly misleading, Apple hasn't SOLD one billion apps, they've had one billion DOWNLOADS. As downloads include freeware, there's a big difference between that and actual sales.)

"Nokia says they are committed to Symbian and will continue to invest in the upcoming Symbian technologies"

Symbian is very misunderstood by smartphone commentators. It's not meant to be a competitor with high end devices, its main feature is the very low price hardware that it can run on, e.g. the Nokia 6120 is about 150 dollars unlocked (bought locked from an operator it would probably be free on absolutely any plan).

What looks like happening is Symbian moving to take over Nokia's cheaper mass market models from NokiaOS (aka Series 40), with Maemo Linux taking over Nokia's highest-end models from Symbian. In a way that would be demotion for Symbian as it would be only on less "sexy" models, but it would also be a promotion because its sales would probably go up significantly if it's on mass market models (Nokia's Series 40 phones outsell all manufacturers' smartphones put together several times over). Most global phone makers do this two-OS system because it allows them to serve both the global mass market and richer customers in developed nations. It's only niche manufacturers like Apple that stick to one OS, because they don't make any mass market products.

Re: Application Category Distribution

Tzer2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:33:34 -0000

By the way Payam, the Ovi web portal can be set to show available items for all handsets if you log out of Ovi and then select the all handsets option from the front page. That would be a much better way of working if you're trying to find general facts and figures for Ovi Store.

The 20,000 figure may be the same method that console manufacturers use for "titles", i.e. all the different localised versions counted separately.

Sony sometimes claims there are 20,000 titles on the PS2, but if you remove the duplicates in different languages the figure for true unique titles is actually something like 5000.

It's very difficult to measure the number of releases on Ovi Store though as there seems to be a lot of variation depending on where you're accessing it from and which handset you have selected. As I said before, it's best to select the all handsets option if you want a broader picture, but even this seems to vary by region.

Re: Application Category Distribution

Tzer2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:28:43 -0000

Using the N97 for metrics is perhaps not a good idea as it has only been on general release for a few days (in many areas it still isn't available yet). Developers tend not to support brand new devices as much as established devices.

It might be better to use something like the N95 which has been around a while and has a mass audience, which means it has a lot more software support.