Nokia is still a pretty big disappointment in the smartphone business. The Nokia N8 was supposed to arrive this summer and we all had high hopes for it. The first Symbian^3 device was delayed month after month and it started shipping only recently.
Nokia lost plenty of customers to Apple and Google and now that the N8 is finally available, at least in certain markets, we might see it ignored in favor of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 handsets that are coming this October in Europe. So what’s next for Nokia? Clearly the N8 will not be a match for the iPhone 4 or any of the hot Android handsets available out there, at least not in people’s minds. That means we might need a new flagship device from Nokia to steal our attention.
The Nokia N9 might be the handset we’re looking for. The phone is supposed to be “nearly perfect” although that’s definitely not enough. After all we know phones are not perfect, and we don’t expect any future mobile devices to reach perfection, do we?
The news comes from Eldar Murtazin, a guy that always seems to know what’s happening with new Nokia handsets. The N9 is a MeeGo device, all the more reasons to be happy to hear was spotted in the wild, and will probably be the obvious successor of the N900. That “near perfect” quote relates to the hardware of the device, as the software has to be perfected by launch time:
Nokia lost plenty of customers to Apple and Google and now that the N8 is finally available, at least in certain markets, we might see it ignored in favor of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 handsets that are coming this October in Europe. So what’s next for Nokia? Clearly the N8 will not be a match for the iPhone 4 or any of the hot Android handsets available out there, at least not in people’s minds. That means we might need a new flagship device from Nokia to steal our attention.
The Nokia N9 might be the handset we’re looking for. The phone is supposed to be “nearly perfect” although that’s definitely not enough. After all we know phones are not perfect, and we don’t expect any future mobile devices to reach perfection, do we?
The news comes from Eldar Murtazin, a guy that always seems to know what’s happening with new Nokia handsets. The N9 is a MeeGo device, all the more reasons to be happy to hear was spotted in the wild, and will probably be the obvious successor of the N900. That “near perfect” quote relates to the hardware of the device, as the software has to be perfected by launch time:
In terms of HW is near perfect, i like it.In case the Nokia N8 does not convince you then you might just as well try something else from the competition and wait for this MeeGo handset to hit the streets. Not having seen the device in action yet, or a commercially viable version of MeeGo, I still say that MeeGo should become a primary mobile OS at Nokia, especially now that we have a new CEO at the helm.
In terms of SW is not so good at the moment – but hope they will change it in 2011
