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Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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krig wrote: post #23
blub wrote: post #17

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From what I've seen with the N8 prototypes, it looks, feels better than Symbian 5th and it's faster too. Some people have been using the N8 more than myself and told me that they are happy with them. Still, anything can happen :) N900 was a cool project, but they didn't take it all the way to a commercial product IMO. It registered poorer sales than Symbian and it's always a bit behind when it comes to services & sof…

For one, the interface is a web site that isn't well-adapted to a mobile screen, so getting to the store is cumbersome in itself. Secondly, downloading an app after buying it is very slow and frustrating. It involves adding a special APT repository with a unique key, and APT on the device is unusably slow. Third, actually publishing on the store is, as far as I can tell, practically impossible unless you have a compa…

That does sound bad. On Symbian the store is a separate app that takes care of everything for you. The install is done in the background and you can launch the app directly from the store app.

Each app has up to three screenshots and description text, but this depends on the publisheer.

Depending on when you wanted to publish, it might be better now because they allow individual developers and you get free signing (for Symbian).

P.S: As a developer I'm happy that the prices are higher. :) 0.99 is ridiculously cheap for software.

Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Post by blub »

joe_the_user wrote: post #27
blub wrote: post #10

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More nonsense from the people that can't bother with studying the subject even a bit before speaking. You seem to be unaware of the developments with Nokia and Symbian for the past one or two years. They are making an impressive effort to engage developers and they have made the development much more simpler and straightforward. People that have been developing for Android/iPhone have told me that the Qt SDK is compe…

Hmm, I love Qt and I'd love to develop for Symbian. I'm working on a Qt desktop app that might be a good candidate for a mobile port. >>>I can't even find a Symbian phone in the US to develop on. I can't see any way to begin mobile development from the US at all - except order a Symbian phone from overseas or something. If you can't start work, it doesn't matter how easy things are. (and yes, any Symbian folks who wa…

I've heard that Nokia is almost nonexistant in the US. But the 5230/Nuron should be available.

It's a very cheap Symbian 5th ed phone, that's similar to the 5800 with no wifi/weaker camera and so on. It can get you far enough and then you can use the forum nokia virtual device lab for the rest.

Nokia might release the N8 to AT&T in 2011 judging by their Calling all innovators 10m $ competition.

Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Post by blub »

joe_the_user wrote: post #26
auxbuss wrote: post #2

Symbian is dead [0]. It has been for a while. And Nokia will be too unless it adopts a new strategy very quickly. The figures from the article make this crystal clear: "Symbian's global market share has gone from 51 percent in the second quarter of 2009 to 41 percent in the same period of 2010". It's equally clear that it is Android that has hastened its demise. It am still astonished when I remember Nokia buying (th…

Hmm, Do you think they could finish porting Qt to Android and move their whole environment that way?

I believe that Google need to officially support the existing Qt Android port for it to catch on.

Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Post by blub »

patrickaljord wrote: post #24
yason wrote: post #8

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Definitely. I would bet a lot that the cheap (between $50-$150) phones few years from now will be basic medium-size touchscreen phones running something like Android and equipped with a bit older hardware, maybe a generation or two behind. The cheapest Android phone I can find in my country is Samsung Galaxy 5, for 224€. And that's only two years down the Android lane. Two more years, and we're close.

Cheap Android phones are already here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/huawei-ideos-hands-on/ "this thing is going to be launching for somewhere between $100 and $200 unsubsidized in Europe, Asia, and both North and Latin America. It's got 3G, WiFi, mobile hotspot capability for up to eight devices, and was apparently developed in direct partnership with Google, a sign that Mountain View is serious about taking An…

I don't understand how it can be between 100 and 200. Why the large interval?

Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Post by perokreco »

joe_the_user wrote: post #27
blub wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More nonsense from the people that can't bother with studying the subject even a bit before speaking. You seem to be unaware of the developments with Nokia and Symbian for the past one or two years. They are making an impressive effort to engage developers and they have made the development much more simpler and straightforward. People that have been developing for Android/iPhone have told me that the Qt SDK is compe…

Hmm, I love Qt and I'd love to develop for Symbian. I'm working on a Qt desktop app that might be a good candidate for a mobile port. >>>I can't even find a Symbian phone in the US to develop on. I can't see any way to begin mobile development from the US at all - except order a Symbian phone from overseas or something. If you can't start work, it doesn't matter how easy things are. (and yes, any Symbian folks who wa…

How do you mean you can't find it? I live in the US, and all my phones have been Nokias for a while. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

http://www.nokiausa.com

Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Post by StavrosK »

ugh wrote: post #9
davidw wrote: post #6

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Ok, for the sake of argument: there are a ton of people in the world who cannot afford a high end iPhone or even Android system. Are they not a viable market? I'm not sure whether Symbian is the best OS there, either, to be honest, but I do think that market bears consideration.

Don’t you think that really cheap Android phones will be a possibility in one to two years? That seems plausible to me.

The HTC wildfire costs 170 EUR, that's cheaper than any Nokia with the same functionality... All my mobiles have been Nokias so far, but the next one is going to be a Desire HD (just waiting for it to come out).

Re: Sony Ericsson abandons Symbian for Android and WP7

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Post by jackvalentine »

blub wrote: post #34
patrickaljord wrote: post #24

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Cheap Android phones are already here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/huawei-ideos-hands-on/ "this thing is going to be launching for somewhere between $100 and $200 unsubsidized in Europe, Asia, and both North and Latin America. It's got 3G, WiFi, mobile hotspot capability for up to eight devices, and was apparently developed in direct partnership with Google, a sign that Mountain View is serious about taking An…

I don't understand how it can be between 100 and 200. Why the large interval?

Because of the large geographic spread of "Europe, Asia, and both North and Latin America". These regions all price phones differently.
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