Remember last year when Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7, and sales of Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets all but disappeared like the dinosaurs? With Nokia now set to move its smartphones over to the WP7 platform, it kind of feels like the E7 slider they’ve just released is headed down the same path to extinction.
Did our words on why we’re not reviewing the N8 cut to the bone of Nokia? They’ve slipped an interesting fact into today’s financial report that they “will no longer be talking about Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 at all”. [Nokia Conversations]
This week, like many Australian tech journalists, I scored a little bit of face time with the new Nokia N8 (and some Nokia marketing people as well). Their message was one of optimism, of confidence, of excitement with their new smartphone. But I’m sorry to say that after a short amount of time playing with the phone, that’s not what I was feeling at all.
The leaked Nokia N8-00 hardware we spied just days ago got a bit more official today thanks to some intrepid XML file sniffing over at Nokia.com.
Details were shed on the open source Symbian^3 platform just a week ago, but at Mobile World Congress the friendly guys at The Symbian Foundation got reckless with details on HDMI support, and both 2D and 3D gaming graphics.
