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Irony: Nokia N97's designer is Japanese {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 3rd 2008 4:06AM Matt, I read it again.
Still the same comment: tabloid story.
Maybe it is ironic for some people, maybe not. Business as usual.
Irony: Nokia N97's designer is Japanese {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 3rd 2008 2:57AM Please write articles with substance, not this kind of tabloid stuff. Wake up! It's not the first time there are multinational teams in global companies.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic video review is probably longer than you think {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 20th 2008 4:49AM My personal observations: I had a chance to use E71 for a few days. It seems to be very solid and a good piece of work. Currently I have a N95 8GB and it's been great! It has dropped a few times, but no scratches, doesn't creak in any way...
Touch Cruise latest HTC device to fall to Android {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 1st 2008 3:41AM Jato's comment: "...sets. It's about opening up the mobile market to open-source. And is open source worth it for phones? Hell yes..."
Have you ever thought how small part of Android is really open-source??? Where can I get the source code for anything else than the Java based (Dalvik) application framework?
I have used and worked with application development (and on other stuff as well) on many mobile platforms. Android doesn't bring anything better, and so far there's no working ecosystem around Android that would benefit anybody. Oh yes, I guess it benefits only Google because of publicity. There are presentation slides and plans, but the full-scale practical implementation is yet to be seen. Only the free licensing and a couple of very basic integrated services seem to be positive things, but even in that perspective Android is nothing special. The same services are available to any device vendors and operators through web browsers and web run-times.
Any device vendors or operators who want to implement Android in their devices, have to put tons of money and resources on R&D in order to get their own services, applications, and user experience in place. That is not inexpensive. It's the same situation with other platforms as well, unless you are able to utilize existing code. It's frustrating to see yet-another-platform, which creates even more fragmentation in the mobile industry, without bringing any significant improvements. Android is not based on any good existing application frameworks but introduced a new one. There are plenty of other tested and working options available, for free. There are some native Linux based operating systems for mobile devices and Symbian S60 will be free to use in a short while as well. For example these ones have hundreds (or even thousands) of existing applications and services, in addition to very robust practical implementations. These offer very good run-times as well. Why to focus on a niche OS like Android (currently 0% market share) while Symbian S60 and some Linux OS's are running everywhere around the globe already in the hands of hundreds of millions of people??? Think about it...
