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And for its focus group, it is pretty darn impressive. Battery life for people who don't have toilet, not mentioning wall outlets.
edit: I think it would be perfect phone for kids first phone. Simple, cheap, good battery, durable.
This "used-car salesman" undertone, wordily mulling over the same points, and over the top praise are very typical of most Indian magazines and newspapers even. I'm not trying to be nasty here, even I am Indian and not a native speaker of English. I just find this style of writing very amusing and can recognize it anywhere. :-) EDIT: I was wrong about 'recognizing it anywhere', this article isn't from an Indian publi…
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Is it really relevant in this day and age ? I can think of a very few cases (like, being lost in the Borneo jungle) where this would be actually useful in a normal environment. If you live someplace where you don't have easy access to a power outlet at least once per day, it's unlikely you will have support for the advanced features of a smartphone, and an older Nokia phone will work just as well ...
I find it absolutely dramatic that people have just accepted that battery life should be terrible with modern smartphone.
Personally, I can't really see the added value of having to plug my smartphone less frequently than once per day, as opposed to have all the features offered in exchange.
Power consumption only tells only part of the story : it should be compared to the features offered by the phone, and in which conditions. I doubt we are talking about 48 days of standby with wifi and 3G active, that would be how you normally use a smartphone.
Hardly impressive - fairly pathetic really. Observe: http://androidandme.com/2013/04/smartphones-2/archos-reveals... http://www.androidforcheap.com/cell-phone-android-phone-c-58... http://www.pandawill.com/mobile-phone-c1/android-os-phone-c5... etc. Just Google around for tons more. Generally better in just about every way, and running a real OS that can run real apps.
> running a real OS that can run real apps. Don’t underestimate Symbian and the quality of apps available even for niche products. Sure, Android and iOS might get the newest fanciest things in the Valley, but as long as your expectations are not too uncommon, you will find decent apps for nearly every usecase. Add to this that Nokia still has some high-quality apps themselves (Nokia Maps, e.g.) and the fact that Symb…
Hardly impressive - fairly pathetic really. Observe: http://androidandme.com/2013/04/smartphones-2/archos-reveals... http://www.androidforcheap.com/cell-phone-android-phone-c-58... http://www.pandawill.com/mobile-phone-c1/android-os-phone-c5... etc. Just Google around for tons more. Generally better in just about every way, and running a real OS that can run real apps.
> running a real OS that can run real apps. Don’t underestimate Symbian and the quality of apps available even for niche products. Sure, Android and iOS might get the newest fanciest things in the Valley, but as long as your expectations are not too uncommon, you will find decent apps for nearly every usecase. Add to this that Nokia still has some high-quality apps themselves (Nokia Maps, e.g.) and the fact that Symb…
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I find it absolutely dramatic that people have just accepted that battery life should be terrible with modern smartphone.
It's a trade-off between features. A smartphone does much more than a traditional phone: wireless, 3G, and most of all, high resolution screens make the high consumption a necessary evil in order to deliver the added functionalities. Personally, I can't really see the added value of having to plug my smartphone less frequently than once per day, as opposed to have all the features offered in exchange. Power consumpti…
Between different brands and models, you see a huge difference in term of battery life (think Motorola Android phones VS Apple iPhone 5).
I see as an advantage not having to charge my phone every night, I like knowing that if I forget my charger when travelling, my phone won't be dead after a single day. This is just my personal experience, some people call a lot, some people go on the Internet a lot through 3G (and most phones out there won't last the entire day doing that), or simply the fact of knowing that after a few months of usage, my battery life won't be down to a few hours (yes, battery life goes worse with usage).
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Is it really relevant in this day and age ? I can think of a very few cases (like, being lost in the Borneo jungle) where this would be actually useful in a normal environment. If you live someplace where you don't have easy access to a power outlet at least once per day, it's unlikely you will have support for the advanced features of a smartphone, and an older Nokia phone will work just as well ...
I find it quite helpful that I don’t have to carry a charger with me for shortish trips, although my phone only lasts about 5 days with medium usage. Granted, if I carry my laptop with me anyway it is just an extra USB cable, but if I don’t, it’s another 200 or so grams I potentially have to carry uphill on a bike.
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> running a real OS that can run real apps. Don’t underestimate Symbian and the quality of apps available even for niche products. Sure, Android and iOS might get the newest fanciest things in the Valley, but as long as your expectations are not too uncommon, you will find decent apps for nearly every usecase. Add to this that Nokia still has some high-quality apps themselves (Nokia Maps, e.g.) and the fact that Symb…
AFAIK there's no freely available SDK for S40 phones, which limits the number of available applications to only what Nokia deem in their interest to make.
As of this new device, the S40 SDK has been renamed as the "Asha software platform":
"The new Nokia Asha software platform builds on the success of the Series 40 Developer Platform, to deliver consumers globally the power of a smartphone in an affordable, pocketable form factor. A 3” QVGA screen and swipe UI delivers a superior, fun user experience. For developers the Nokia Asha software platform offers new Java APIs and an updated web apps platform for desirable, high value apps."
The alternative is to take the "kitchen-sink" platform of Android which is actively developed for quad-core phones and full-HD displays, and try to pare it down to run on low-end hardware that's an order of magnitude slower and also has an order of magnitude less pixels to work with... While still preserving compatibility with half a million existing apps.
That's of course pretty much impossible, so instead the super-cheap Android devices are running old software from several years ago with extra limitations imposed by the low-end platform.
The difference in the two approaches is analoguous to Windows RT vs. iOS on tablets -- the other party tries to cut down the full system for cheaper devices, while the other builds up from software that's been proven on smaller devices.
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[1] According to previous reports, the Smarterphone OS had an app platform written in Scheme! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarterphone
...I doubt anything of that survives in the Asha platform, but it would be cool to do low-end smartphone apps in Lisp :)
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I find it quite helpful that I don’t have to carry a charger with me for shortish trips, although my phone only lasts about 5 days with medium usage. Granted, if I carry my laptop with me anyway it is just an extra USB cable, but if I don’t, it’s another 200 or so grams I potentially have to carry uphill on a bike.
200gr? Dude, that's the laptop charger.
Still an annoying item I have to carry with me that provides absolutely no other value.
[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Micro-USB-Mains-Charger/dp/B...
[1] http://www.amazon.de/mumbi-Universal-mini-Ladegerät-1000mA/d...