Nokia EVP tweets: major MeeGo milestone by end of year, no Android, N8 by end of Q3

Ask all the people that they have layed off and look at share price and the margin they make. If this puppy does not sell then they are fucked and they know it. Their market cap was one of the biggest in the world and they have been pushed aside by dude in a turtle neck that has talked shit like he invented it and has brainwashed most of the world with only one model of a phone in three or four versions. How they let that happen I will never know.

From everything I’ve read about Nokia, their main problems aren’t their old-ass Symbian operating system; they could order that changed YESTERDAY.

Their main issue is their leadership and management structure. The company hierarchy operates like a little Euro-government, i.e. it take forever to get anything done, a decision made, and any move has to get approved by layer after layer of bureaucratic management.

The company needs a European version of Neutron Jack Welch, to go in and start cutting layers of management to the core, until the engineers have the power to bring up and run with ideas FAST. Just like at Google.

Must have never heard of blue tooth modem or is tethering using a cable or frying your battery using wi fi the latest technology. Or synching files from phone to computer, better not forget to put cable in pocket. Really shits me when any criticism of nokia people jump on but have hardly used any features of the phones to know that things are poor like system resources on any smart phone so far not to mention services like ovi files, ovi suite all unreliable. Use navigation for a long drive and you need to restart phone because all ram is full. Nokia even said that all phones should be restarted daily. Why because of memory leak and weak OS. Who here is able to sync 6 gig of music on ovi suite and not have the music library on phone corrupt and have to download all the music licences again and delete fucking dud files from the phone. They released what was called a flagship phone the n900 with resistive screen and no apps. No wonder it sold poorly. The 5800 only recently got kinetic scrolling. Fine if you never used it but if you know the diff you feel a right plonker. The same goes with crap apps. You use an iphone or android app and crap in ovi store you see the diff. Fine having Qt. but how will you find good apps unless they start ovi store again and make sure apps function first. People have nokia 5800s and cant rotate the home screen and all it takes is a few lines of code. The same will happen with n8 and its browser. Everyone raves about the camera but ask about the browser there is nothing like tabs or other features mentioned. Meego looks good but its a good year away. Something very big has happened to a company that used to release a new phone every few weeks to a trickle but have no game changing phone coming out any time soon. Better hurry up or Stevie J will take credit for hdmi output and blue tooth on iphone 5 like he invented face time and invented forward facing camera or at least that is what the sheep flock think.

What a shame. The n900 has good specs but they stuffed it. Nokia has suddenly gone toxic unless you want a basic phone and enjoy playing snake.

And the biggest insult is the n900 was not cheap and it is now and second hand market does not exist. At least the n97 can be off loaded if needed and is selling well in India.

A “milestone” running a linux based OS… from Nokia?

AHAHAHAHAHelloMotoHAHAHAHAHA

Nokia has put there foot in it, by stating that the the N8 will be the last symbian^3 device in the Nseries range and are already talking about symbian^4 and meego (what are they thinking, if I stated that openly I would be sacked), that comment can be so missinterpreted.

It feels to the consumer that they are not 100% commited to the symbian^3 flagship device and are concentrating on future products.

In order to make the N8 a best seller they should fully commit to the device that they are 100% behind the N8 by announcing that it will be upgradeble to symbian^4 when released or Meego. If has the hardware capabilities to run the software so why not write the drivers for it. HTC’s Desire and googles Nexus One can upgrade their flagship phones for the next version of Android and so can Apple. If the consumer were assured that Nokia where going to keep the device updated with the latest software then the sales would increase immensely. The more people that jump on the band wagon for this device will determine the success or failure of symbian^3. In My opinion I think that Android being java based is less attractive for deveolpers even though at the moment it has more apps. All analysts predictions are that Android will eventually win the smartphone war of IOS 4 and Symbian^3 meego WM7 etc…. (even if the OS in my opninion is inferior to symbian). I still think that Nokia are correct not to give in and to make an Android phone, but what they should do is unofficially leak android OS for the N8 to a mobile forum for the flagship phone. This would then attract the devoted android users to purchase the N8 and run unoffical firmware…. This will then drive sales of the N8 which will have a knock on effect of more developers writing apps for Symbian^3.

Crikey I should be on the board.. NOKIA OPENLY ANNOUNCE YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE N8 BY STATING THAT THE NEXT VERSION OF OS WILL RUN. FUTURE PROOF YOUR DEVICE