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Nokia posts $834 million quarterly loss, smartphone share down to 35% {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 9:10AM @Suomaa: as a phone OS?
As far as I can see, the first phone to ship with it is the N900, everything else that's had it is an "Internet Tablet" or somesuch. Also interesting to note is that Maemo5 won't be available for older devices due to "compatibility issues" - sounds like lots of R&D dollar making it all new and exciting to me.
Nokia posts $834 million quarterly loss, smartphone share down to 35% {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 8:56AM @tikiteko: No, really? You don't say! I never said Linux on phones was a bad thing (although it has some drawbacks - battery usage for starters!), just that there's a lot of Linuxphones out there as it is without Nokia coming along, late to the party, and brandishing a new variant for everybody to get used to.
Android has a massive foothold in the market already (how many phone OSes are used on handsets from so many manufacturers?). I think Nokia should look to that for their future devices rather than spending all their R&D on developing a new OS.
Nokia posts $834 million quarterly loss, smartphone share down to 35% {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 8:40AM You can actually write apps that run outside of the virtual machine though. Google just don't recommend it for compatibility reasons.
Nokia posts $834 million quarterly loss, smartphone share down to 35% {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2009 8:31AM I used to be a Nokia fanboy, up until my N95 packed it in after a failed firmware update. I then got an HTC Magic and saw the light.
Nokia needs to release an Android handset, or port Android to the N97. Or both.
Maemo's probably nice, but it's another Linux-for-phones. There's a half dozen of those already, ffs.
Samsung Galaxy i7500 pops up unlocked on Newegg {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2009 5:17AM Agreed. That same phone costs $550 unlocked in Australia. That's about $500 for you yanks.
Acer A1 Android phone listed for pre-order with 768MHz processor {Engadget}
Sep 27th 2009 10:34PM I don't get it. Why do you need to wait for carrier support?
Is this some crazy US thing that will make no sense to people who live elsewhere?
Is this AT&T's HTC Pure, clad in shimmering magenta? {Engadget}
Sep 22nd 2009 7:23AM Dear HTC,
Less WinMo and more Android.
Love,
Everybody.
Motorola looking to bring Android to 'all the US operators' {Engadget}
Sep 15th 2009 1:01PM The US is starved?
Here in Australia, land of buying a mobile phone and having it work on any network unless you got it though 3 Hutchinson, it's next to impossible to get an Android handset. Optus sell the Dream/G1 but lock it down tight to their network. Vodafone sell the Magic, but again, locked tight to their network.
The only saving grace is that Virgin are apparently releasing the Samsung Galaxy "this month" and their phones are never locked.
I had to resort to buying a Magic off eBay from a dodgy seller in Hong Kong and hoping it wasn't a dead fish he was sending me. :(
How would you change the netbook as we know it? {Engadget}
Sep 12th 2009 12:54AM I'm totally sick to death of 1024x600. A 10" screen should be able to do 1280x720, if not higher.
...if we're going to forget that that they primarily need to be cheap, I think they should also come with multicore CPUs, more RAM, and better GPUs.
Oh, and better trackpads. Synaptic ones might be relatively great, but they're still crapped upon by Apple ones.
LG Etna Android phone sneaks onto the scene at IFA {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2009 4:47PM @Destricto_Ense: Like I said, internally it's probably the same. The outside is kinda niftier than the Dream/G1, but ehhhhh... I'd rather have a faster CPU and more RAM.
Of course, I'd also like it a lot more if manufacturers stopped talking about releasing Android handsets and actually, you know, released some.
