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Re: First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exclusively in China

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Post by detaro » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:03 AM UTC

ploggingdev wrote: post #12

It was sad to see the decline of Nokia from being the most ubiquitous brand of phones to literally nothing today (in the smartphone and feature phone market). If they had adopted Android instead of going with Windows Phone, things could have been a lot better. Even when they made Windows Phone devices, at least the high end devices where critically acclaimed with everyone's only gripe only being Windows Phone (mainly…

I still don't really get how Microsoft acts towards mobile. They pushed it a lot and then seemingly dropped it, but on the other hand they still seem to invest quite a bit of engineering effort into windows 10 features for mobile (e.g. the continuum concept). Why work on stuff like that when it is dead, or why "give up" and let the recognition the Lumnias built decay, wait until everybody who had one has switched to something else before attempting the next move? I don't see a new large push succeeding now.

Re: First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exclusively in China

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Post by herbst » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 10:53 AM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #70

herbst wrote: post #68

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Youe issues with android are easy to explain. You were not using android. You used horrible forks by HTC and Samsung. Its kind of sad that peoples android impression gets downed when they actually never run a clean Android..

That's not entirely true. The problems I encountered on the Note 4 were no different from those encountered by my flatmate who was using the Nexus 6. For example if we did a clean install. What's App or LINE would both open the camera in ~1-2 seconds. With only installing a few apps (facebook, twitter, whats app, line...) after 1 month, both the note 4 and nexus would degrade in performance that What's App or LINE wo…

well ok. Guess i have to take this. Personally i never experience such issues at all with clean android flavors (Nexus or AOKP). I use a different camera app since ages tho, maybe thats why i never experienced that issue. Overall i remember especially Samsungs flavors slowing down a lot after just a few months.

Re: First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exclusively in China

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Post by pdimitar » Mon, Jan 09, 2017, 7:29 PM UTC

craigcabrey wrote: post #69

pdimitar wrote: post #67

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I can't tell you about each month but I bought my mother a Z3 Compact around 14 months ago. It got Marshmallow ~6 weeks after its official release, and will have Nougat pretty soon now (so I heard on the net). Even though I dislike Sony recently, they were awesome -- up to their Z3 phones and Z4 tablet releases. And they don't abandon their devices as quickly as everybody else.

Err, my Z3 didn't get Marshmallow until more than half a year passed from the release date. Marshmallow was released in late October 2015 [1]. Meanwhile, the Z3 only just started rolling in early April 2016 [2]. That's pretty mediocre if you ask me. [1]: https://android.googleblog.com/2015/10/get-ready-for-sweet-t... [2]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/09/marshmallow-update-r...

That's very weird because I clearly remember my mother getting the update around the end of January 2016. OK, it's not 6 weeks, I remember the wrong release date then (thought it was mid-Dec 2015).

Eh, anyway. Peculiarities with the release schedules are sadly the norm.