according to some earlier benchmarks I cannot find right now, ARM11 is at cca 60% of Cortex based chip with similar rating (megahertz).
It means 1GHz CPU used by Nokia should be similar to 600MHz CPU used in Nokia N800 or iPhone 3GS (it's working clockspeed in those devices, not maximum possible).
The problem is Nokia 500 does not include GPU, multimedia features of ARM11 are worse than those of Cortex and ARM11 uses older manufacturing methods (it means chip size a energy requirements of the ARM11 chip are not (much?) better than those of Cortex chip, despite ARM11 is more simple).
- "microsoft drops intel exclusivity" - when windows nt was new, it was available for mips and powerpc architectures as well (if i remember correctly) but they dropped them because there was no traction
- "intel does not want develop atom processor" - intel made extremely huge work to create atom, and move x86 from desktop/notebook to netbook and is clearly targeting tablets and phones next. the only difference is, that they are trying to do this with x86 architecture, not arm. by the way, do you remember, that intel did develope arm designed processors, however, they decided to drop them, to focus on x86
however, ubuntu moving to mobile is true. we'll see how much they are succesfull.
symbian is opensource and nothing can change that. as with every opensource project, there must be someone (person, commitee or bunch of people), that defines direction and developers that make it happen. developers might be payed by commercial stakeholders or by volunteers.
as of now, direction was decided bye board. board was chosen by corporate foundation members. these corporate foundation members also payed developers (there is very little of volunteer developers).
IMHO: if there will be not enough corporate sponsors, developers will be payed by nokia and nokia will as well set direction (without need for consultations with other foundation members).
i expect rest of the company to continue other platforms
i expect RIM bought blackberry part of the company (and some more), to improve RIM software department (+ dataviz as part of bbery solution) but rest of the dataviz will continue to support other platform.
otherwise, they would buy whole dataviz a it would be advertised as such
with all these tablets coming, i'm wondering, if nokia will be releasing some meego tablets. after all, they had internet tablet's well before anyone and meego seems to be finally usable for mass market.
i would welcome some 5-7 inch tablet. my n800 (4 inch) was great at the time, but now I would opt for phone with smaller touch screen (3-3.5 inch) and (5-7 inch) tablet for couch browsing.
it was always microsofts strentgh, that it was able to "outresource" competition. first version was usually disaster, second was usable and third was success (marketing, not technical).
it was the same with mobile os. they were able to "destroy" Palm.
However, competitors and market changed too quickly for them to accomodate. Windows7 for phones is something like version2 in their new mobile strategy.
The difference, right now, is that Apple and Google have enough resources to fight.
(I'm not sure about Nokia/Symbian, they have to start to deliver. Change from "old" S60 to fully competitive Symbian^4 is taking too long. The same with Maemo (2,3,4,5), Meego (1, ?).)
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they for sure lear from design language used by apple, so you can say the "copy" apple. but not more, than they did copy nokia.
as far as i remember, nokia did never sue samsung because of the design.
sony tablets
<ironic>
yes, sony tablets (especially model P) totally look like ipad!
</ironic>
FUD by FSF?
This is such FUD. There are many problems with GPL3 that prevented Linus&co switching to this new license.
I can't see them switching because of this (imho) small glitch.
touchpad
it's got usable web browser, video player, mailer, probably some pdf/ebook reader. that's ok for most people.
the rest will use some cyanogen.
google maturity
and now, as you can see, google is more mature than you would dare to think (as it acquired motorola today).
arm11
according to some earlier benchmarks I cannot find right now, ARM11 is at cca 60% of Cortex based chip with similar rating (megahertz).
It means 1GHz CPU used by Nokia should be similar to 600MHz CPU used in Nokia N800 or iPhone 3GS (it's working clockspeed in those devices, not maximum possible).
The problem is Nokia 500 does not include GPU, multimedia features of ARM11 are worse than those of Cortex and ARM11 uses older manufacturing methods (it means chip size a energy requirements of the ARM11 chip are not (much?) better than those of Cortex chip, despite ARM11 is more simple).
fascinating
imagine police officer saying: "suspected attacker did not provided evidence so we dropped charges"
meego
it would be great, if asus would support meego as well (on transformer -> arm tablet).
after all, they plan to sell atom netbooks with meego)
joikuspot on nokia
... or you can use Nokia smartphone with Joikuspot.
native code plugin
I welcome native code plugin ... as much as everyone welcomes activeX.
apple products
first and most important - steve jobs requires products that do what they are supposed to do.
he can always sacrifice features (look at iphone 1) but available features/functionality/design have to be "perfect".
i'm not surprised, that he was angry, that his company released unfinished product.
(otoh there are apple products, that are not awesome, but they have to be finished according to apple design requirements - e.g. appleTV).
xperia play is to play as in games :-)
you know, it's major nonsense to review xperia play from non-gamer point of view.
xperia play is for gamers, if you are not gamer, it's not for you, buy arc or neo. simple as that.
update for xperia mini pro
there will be no android upgrade for mini pro :-(
(but there might be minor update)
recent upgrade to android 2.3 announcement clearly states it will be for xperia 10 (big one) only.
btw: you should know, that upgrade to 2.3 will break some of the existing 2.1 functionality.
i
small "i" in front of the name :-)
no diversification
nokia killed symbian&meego. how can this be called diversification?
very well written!!!
wow! the first article by andrew orlowski about nokia, that has comments enabled and also the first article where I fully agree with him. :-)
note: fail icon is for nokia, article quality is win.
not very correct article
this article has many thing wrong, such as:
- "microsoft drops intel exclusivity" - when windows nt was new, it was available for mips and powerpc architectures as well (if i remember correctly) but they dropped them because there was no traction
- "intel does not want develop atom processor" - intel made extremely huge work to create atom, and move x86 from desktop/notebook to netbook and is clearly targeting tablets and phones next. the only difference is, that they are trying to do this with x86 architecture, not arm. by the way, do you remember, that intel did develope arm designed processors, however, they decided to drop them, to focus on x86
however, ubuntu moving to mobile is true. we'll see how much they are succesfull.
fine iphone design
as for design - fine iphone4 copy.
but i'd like to know more abour battery life. any info?
haptic feedback
little vibration of the phone after tap
google knows about the workaround
google of course knows about the workaround.
google even mentioned this in their announcement of blocking facebook.
blocking facebook is about blocking someone, that does not want to share.
allowing people to export the data from google is about not doing evil and letting people use THEIR data.
meego please
ideal for meego (netbook ux) reference hw design?
i liked my n800 as a tablet
n770 and n800 would not work as a phone. the strategy was good, but too slow to realize.
one nokia to rule them all
symbian is opensource and nothing can change that. as with every opensource project, there must be someone (person, commitee or bunch of people), that defines direction and developers that make it happen. developers might be payed by commercial stakeholders or by volunteers.
as of now, direction was decided bye board. board was chosen by corporate foundation members. these corporate foundation members also payed developers (there is very little of volunteer developers).
IMHO: if there will be not enough corporate sponsors, developers will be payed by nokia and nokia will as well set direction (without need for consultations with other foundation members).
gingerbread or honeycomb?
as far as i remember, lenovo said they wait for honeycomb for their tablet, not gingerbread
difference between lg and nokia c3?
could you compare it to nokia c3? (or e5?)
nitro not in chrome
nitro is not part of chrome. google decided to use alternative compiler called v8.
i expect rest of the company to continue other platforms
i expect RIM bought blackberry part of the company (and some more), to improve RIM software department (+ dataviz as part of bbery solution) but rest of the dataviz will continue to support other platform.
otherwise, they would buy whole dataviz a it would be advertised as such
there is enough android apps
if android tablets can use apps for android phones, just like ipad can use iphone/itouch apps, there will be enough apps.
meego tablets
with all these tablets coming, i'm wondering, if nokia will be releasing some meego tablets. after all, they had internet tablet's well before anyone and meego seems to be finally usable for mass market.
i would welcome some 5-7 inch tablet. my n800 (4 inch) was great at the time, but now I would opt for phone with smaller touch screen (3-3.5 inch) and (5-7 inch) tablet for couch browsing.
apple's inventive names
also, apple was not very inventive, when they named pad as ipad and phone as iphone
what an original idea
as for motorola's originality - be sure to check nokia twist
ipo coming
i think ipo is coming really soon.
microsoft strategy
it was always microsofts strentgh, that it was able to "outresource" competition. first version was usually disaster, second was usable and third was success (marketing, not technical).
it was the same with mobile os. they were able to "destroy" Palm.
However, competitors and market changed too quickly for them to accomodate. Windows7 for phones is something like version2 in their new mobile strategy.
The difference, right now, is that Apple and Google have enough resources to fight.
(I'm not sure about Nokia/Symbian, they have to start to deliver. Change from "old" S60 to fully competitive Symbian^4 is taking too long. The same with Maemo (2,3,4,5), Meego (1, ?).)