What Nokia needs is less Symbian, and more innovative phones like they were wheeling out a couple of years ago with their N-series line. Merely whacking a 1GHz Snapdragon chip in won’t help pick them up off the floor, however great they’re doing financially.
I mention this because Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kalasvuo has told BusinessWeek that “Qualcomm definitely is a potential partner going forward. The companies did fight a long time in court, and now we see them as a potential partner.”
I hope for our sake this potential partnership with Qualcomm comes in the form of a blazing-fast Maemo or MeeGo phone (their new venture with Intel), rather than some bog-standard N97 clone that turns out to be another “tremendous disappointment”. [BusinessWeek via Electricpig]
Steve
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 12:07 PMWHA?!
was i the only one who thought the n95 was the biggest steaming pile in the history of phones,
its the pinacle of what was wrong with “smart” phones, they all felt prototypey to me!
I despise apple, but at least they got it right… to an extent.
Brad Higgins
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 3:58 PMthe N95 is probably the best phone i ever used. It surpasses even the N97 replacement i bought. In fact The n95 was so good i blindly walked into the n97 which is not a fantastic phone.
Everything about the N95 was great and has much more funcionality then the iPhone. Sure, it didnt have the “app store” but other then that it was highly customisable, had a decent OS which improved greatly over the lifecycles of the device, Introduced the 3.5 headphone jack (thank god!) and was an all round fantastic little device heck it even had SIP for voip!
Wasserkuhl
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 4:21 PMHmmm, it sounds like nokia are really going out into the market and trying to chat up all the market players like a “Guido” on heat!
and, I agree that for its time (2+ years ago) the N95 was a revelation to smartphones. I am also glad I didn’t get an N97 as they are rather brown and sticky. The maemo/meego/we-all-go platforms are the future and for completely different reasons than the iphone….which is white and sticky.