Nokia reveals new plans for SW development, publishes Q3 results

21 October, 2010
Nokia has just published its Q3 financial report and things are looking healthy. The company also let us in on their new plans concerning their smartphone platforms and changes ins software development...

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  • 3aW
  • 21 Oct 2010

ios & android all the way

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    • EzekieL Zick
    • t7X
    • 21 Oct 2010

    W0w.,! Thats g0od news..

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      • Anonymous
      • C1v
      • 21 Oct 2010

      Alui, 21 Oct 2010Q: Where does Symbian 3 name come from? A: Only 3 panes in... moreDon't ever attempt a joke again. what is wrong with 3 home screens?
      The funny thing is, if symbian had 10 homescreens, and android had 100, you'd still make fun of symbian's.
      I have a phone with one homescreen yet can access 14 items. Thats s60v3 for you.

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        • deep space bar
        • kDi
        • 21 Oct 2010

        no more sym4 jusr massive updates for sym3 that's what i was looking forward too :D

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          • mk
          • Y}x
          • 21 Oct 2010

          Yes, n8 is a solid fightback. My N8 ROCKZ. And s^4 update...oh that sounds Awesome

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            • Anonymous
            • Mty
            • 21 Oct 2010

            Alui, 21 Oct 2010Q: Where does Symbian 3 name come from? A: Only 3 panes in... moreLame joke.

            Whats only about 3 home screens. I miss the days when people actually stole with common sense. The idea behind home screens was to enable fast access to regularly used features. Each home screen on the n8 can take 6 widgets or 24 shortcuts as compared to just 1 widget per screen or 4 shortcuts on some android devices. Whats the use of 7 homescreens when you can get to where you're going in the menu with less than 7 clicks. So you're prepared to make 7swipes just so you can come here and talk trash. Get lost.

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              • Anonymous
              • G2G
              • 21 Oct 2010

              Nokia would become a monster again if they only dropped that lame-@ss symbian OS. They should probably jump in the android wagon and also probably get in line to use some WP7!

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                • Alui
                • Am9
                • 21 Oct 2010

                Q: Where does Symbian 3 name come from?
                A: Only 3 panes in the homescreen.
                LOL.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Mty
                  • 21 Oct 2010

                  Anonymous, 21 Oct 2010sounds promising, though i hope that symbian 4 won't end up... moreFirst of all, if doesn't just sound promising, its fantastic news. If you read the article, you would have known that there is no more an s^4. But you didn't. Just another stupid troll.

                  S^1 was a disappointment. What is s^2? S^3 a disappointment? Get you brain firmware checked. There appear to be some serious errors with your reasoning. And don't get me wrong. There was an s^2 but it wasn't used any where near where the english language is spoken plus it was just a beta to s^3.

                  If you had any common sense, you would know that ram amounts comparisms across platforms is a definition of stupidity. Windows xp performs better with 512 ram than windows vista. Windows xp on 256mb ram with screen resolution 800x 600 performs better than windows xp with 512 ram and screen resolution 1280x768.

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                    • Jef
                    • n{%
                    • 21 Oct 2010

                    Moe Ali, 21 Oct 2010True that...but the new handsets will have better specs the... morethat 16MP lens of the upcoming SE phone is probably not as good as the 12MP from the Nokia N8

                    If you read the article you could see the N8 lens is bigger.

                    And yes the lens size is more important than the number of MegaPixels ! (Most mirror reflex camera have 10MP)

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Mty
                      • 21 Oct 2010

                      Mustafa, 21 Oct 2010Nokia needs to show good faith to their customers. Release ... moreThat you currently use a galaxy s shows you have no experience with the new s^3 which also happens to be the os being discussed in this article. As such, i advice you shut your fowl mouth and let the more rational and knowledgeable individuals do the posting.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • HCy
                        • 21 Oct 2010

                        sounds promising, though i hope that symbian 4 won't end up as a dissapointment as with symbian 1,2(n97 & n97mini) and 3,, and although 256mb ram is an improvement, still it feels as short of nowadays pc-like mobile usage, just compare HTC hero or smasung spica to s. galaxy or HTC deisre,, so i wouldn't expect miracles though from n8 with symbian 4

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                          • the FACTS
                          • 9D@
                          • 21 Oct 2010

                          nokia is peanut compare to ios .. failed .. again and again...

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                            • Mustafa
                            • FvX
                            • 21 Oct 2010

                            Nokia needs to show good faith to their customers. Release a Meego beta download for the N900 already and allow users to flash their N8 to work with Meego as well. Symbian is a real crappy OS compared to the other mobile OS'es out there. I've been a die-hard Nokia fan but switched to the Samsung Galaxy S and have yet to regret that choice. Come on Nokia, you have such great hardware, now bring the software up to par!

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                              • Moe Ali
                              • iFX
                              • 21 Oct 2010

                              Moe Ali, 21 Oct 2010True that...but the new handsets will have better specs the... more*currently

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                                • Moe Ali
                                • iFX
                                • 21 Oct 2010

                                Anonymous, 21 Oct 2010they aren't tht stupid they want to sell new handsets of cuzTrue that...but the new handsets will have better specs then N8 for eg- 16 MP cam (which surrently Sony is working on)
                                My this comment was based on what they did with N900 :)

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                                  • Kintaro
                                  • t7A
                                  • 21 Oct 2010

                                  Could be too little, too late. How can they possibly step up when they obviously have no good experience developing touchscreen software. They're going to need to work 5x faster than Google and Apple at this rate to even release a half-decent Meego device next year.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • TqC
                                    • 21 Oct 2010

                                    Moe Ali, 21 Oct 2010I guess they will keep upgrading the N8 till it reaches S^4... morethey aren't tht stupid they want to sell new handsets of cuz

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                                      • Brian
                                      • 4Sv
                                      • 21 Oct 2010

                                      Sometimes you just have to get beat near to death before making the obvious changes.
                                      Nokia exiting the markets and leaving them to the tender care of the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft would suck donkey so if they can even get this half right I'll fully embrace the move.

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                                        • Moe Ali
                                        • iFX
                                        • 21 Oct 2010

                                        I guess they will keep upgrading the N8 till it reaches S^4 and then might (just might) give us an option to have a meego as the OS for the N8.