Comments on: Nokia N97 Analysis: Compared to iPhone 3G and Google G1 Phone

By: David

David — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:16:35 +0000

Nice post regarding the comparison of the 3 different models.

By: Nokia Releases The E75 Into Stores

Nokia Releases The E75 Into Stores — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:42:14 +0000

[...] week we reviewed the new Nokia N97 that is going to hit stores sometime in the next 3 months, but yesterday Nokia has released the [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:55:08 +0000

Nokia wont have to do much to beat apple or googles apps stores.
Heres some quick figures to show why:
- Apple App store current ~15,000 apps
- Symbain apps developed so far ~100,000 (any/all could be uploaded to ovi from day 1)
- amount of phones sold per year that can accesss apples apps store ~12million
-amount of phones sold per year tha can access nokias ovi store between 60 and 450 million depending on s40 intergration…. (wow)

Nokia doesnt have to do anything to beat the others apps store… The sheer number of potentual customers (not to mention nokias extremely generous profit sharing) will cause developers to flood to ovi and populate it with apps.

Combine that with Comeswithmusic (4.4 million free songs) and its goodbye appstore/itunes….

By: WOM World / Nokia » Blog Archive - Nokia N97, meet the iPhone and G1

WOM World / Nokia » Blog Archive - Nokia N97, meet the iPhone and G1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:43:16 +0000

[...] Finch, from Crenk, has put together a feature comparison pitting the upcoming N97 against two of its main rivals: the iPhone, and the Android powered [...]

By: Josef

Josef — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:56:14 +0000

I’ve downloaded tonnes of apps for my Nokia N81 and N95, and written my own too. The phones have always been “open” – anyone has been able to create an application for the Symbian OS, or in Java ME for that matter. And now the OS itself is open source. But Apple has managed to wrap a bad thing – lock-in – in fancy paper – App Store, and people love it.

The Ovi site is up, but if I’ve understood it correctly, the application download section won’t open until the end of the month. I’m not at all certain it will be a success similar to the App Store, since people will be able to download the same apps from other sources – along with other crappy, non-”approved by Nokia” apps. Perhaps the lock-in a la iPhone is required to get some hype going and give a type of seal of approval.

And it’s not as simple as writing one Symbian s60 (or even Java ME) application and hope it fits all Nokia phones, it takes a whole lot of testing and adaptation to make an app fit e.g. the Nokia N-series. For iPhone you don’t have that problem – there’s only one gizmo to tailor your app for. Even for Nokia phones with touch screen, you will have to make sure your app runs on both the already released ExpressMusic and the N97

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:30:30 +0000

Yeh good points about the Symbian OS. Is Symbian open for any developer?

The iPhone will soon also have copy and paste in the new 3.0 release.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:20:09 +0000

There are always tones of apps for Nokias. Thats always been one of the good points of the symbian OS

This is the the fith build of the OS, so it is now rock solid. Simply copying and pasting text on a iphone is impossible. Multi-tasking (more than one app at a time) has been Symbians forte for ages. No chance of that with a iphone. You want to open something else, close current one first.

The iphone needs a app store beacuse it all has to go through itunes. Any app for Symbain can just be bluetoothed over – job done.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:19:19 +0000

Ummmmm isnt symbian open source….
So its always been app ready just never with an online store fronted by Nokia methinks.

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:31:28 +0000

But Ovi will really need to be exceptional to actually be compared to Android marketplace and App Store.

By: Der

Der — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:08:08 +0000

erm, nokia are launching an app store. It will be ovi store