More iPhone / Nokia / etc. thoughts
Chris Bovard just left a great comment on the iPhone Nano thread -- here's the closer on his post about why he's unlikely to get an iPhone and why he can't understand why everyone is so hyped about it:
My next phone purchase will be N95 8gig because I love my current N95. If I buy another bigger phone it will be a http://www8.garmin.com/nuvifone/ when it is out. I own an older Garmin GPS I use for mountaineering. You can drop it and it goes under water. If Garmin puts this much though into their phone well the iphone will be just another toy.
Maybe time for everyone too look at the big picture instead of yet another Mac babysitter product for the mass.
"Mac babysitter product" is a great post. Except, well, the masses WANT babysitter products. I replied in the same thread -- here's the last bit of my comment:
Food for thought. I am all for competition, so I hope that Nokia continues with Series 60 development and also innovates in their new Linux-based systems (ref: their purchase of Trolltech, which makes cross platform GUI stuff). What these other players MUST realize is that the time has come where the mobile phone is moving BEYOND the bounds of the walled garden telcos, into the open platform of the Internet, and all competitors MUST strive to engage with network and platform effects in order to succeed long term.
The mobile market is one of those areas where so much interesting stuff is happening. I'm glad that we're having these types of discussions.
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mobile phones galore.
I must admit that I have shied away from Nokie phones. Over the years, I've developed a default affection for Motorola and Samsung mobile phones. It probably has something to do with the way they are designed and marketed in my country. The iPhone is revolutionary and I understand that Apple has tweaked it a little more since the last Macworld expo. When the time comes for me to finally put my current phone to rest, I imagine it would be a tough decision-making process with all the wonderful goodies available on the market.
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Hello, I have been tagged yeah.
I have a little more to add to this.. Thank you Boris for not ripping my comments apart. Nokia will be continuing with their S60 development for most of their phones except the E-series (linux based) I think. I have worked with Nokia but I am not sure how prepared they are for developing phones for this continent. They seem to be a bit anal about things and fixated on the wrong thing.
I think in the overall grand scheme we will be CSS'ing sites for; Iphone - Blackberry screen res; and anything smaller like N-series and other small screen res phones.
I guess it depends on the browser on each phone but I see this being a whole new world of issues.
So we will have one day: IE6, IE7, IE8, FireFox, Safari, Iphone Safari, Crackberry, Nokia Phones, and all misc phone browsers.
I can see it now "but it looks funny on my Mobile..."
It looks grim. Funny how people hate IE6. I think there will be more browsers to not like in the next few years.
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Interesting comments on 107.9 FM
Was driving home last night when I caught an article on browsers and upcoming changes for tailoring sites to browsers in HTML 5. Didn't hear too much more than that, but it sounded interesting.