I give it a year or two until they bring it back by popular demand. Nokia might not be the biggest name in phones any more, but it's still a much stronger brand than Microsoft.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;46301773]Good. No need to bother the dead.[/QUOTE]
Dead? What?
this is a fucking dick move. gj microsoft
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;46301773]Good. No need to bother the dead.[/QUOTE]
My cheap but good Nokia smart phone is all but dead. It was even on sale for $19 not too long ago for a short time. Pretty much couldn't get a better deal unless you stole it
[QUOTE=Egevened;46302087]this is a fucking dick move. gj microsoft[/QUOTE]
uhh whats wrong with this? there's an existing company called Nokia that's no longer affiliated with the phones that are being produced. they want to make a shift away from the name now that this is the case. why create brand confusion?
Microsoft Nokia.
Alternatively, Microsoft's new line of smartphones, the Nokia series.
[quote]The announcement comes despite Microsoft agreeing to a 10-year deal to use the Nokia name on mobile products.[/quote]
What kind of deal is that
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;46302377]What kind of deal is that[/QUOTE]
Nokia still exists as a company, they just don't make phones anymore. And while Microsoft has licensed the name for 10 years, there's apparently a bit more to that as well:
[QUOTE](Under the deal, Microsoft can use “Nokia” on feature phones for 10 years, but the brand is licensed for smartphones only for 18 months after the deal’s close.)[/QUOTE]
The move makes all kind of sense.
[QUOTE=pentium;46302265]Microsoft Nokia.
Alternatively, Microsoft's new line of smartphones, the Nokia series.[/QUOTE]
Or they could just be sensible and call their phones the Microsoft [model goes here] like every other company?
Nokia has very little to do with this now, that section of them is now MS. Why should MS recognise Nokia when that part of them is long dead?
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;46302906]Nokia as we knew it p. much killed itself after E(f)lop released his Burning Platform memo even though the N9 and it's potential successors had the potential to shake the mobile market[/QUOTE]
You're overestimating the N9.
Really, I would've have loved MeeGo to succeed, but I really doubt that it could. Sure, WP didn't have any kind of market share back then either, but Microsoft had the capital to back the platform, and I'm not sure Nokia did (Nokia got $250m from MS every quarter for the first two years iirc).
The end of an era.
The Nokia 3310 is still the greatest phone known to man. If I manage to find my old 3310 I'm more then happy to ditch my current phone for it.
RIP Nokia, we'll always remember the N-Gage.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XoxHDQuxt4[/media]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;46304408]The N9 had the absolute best UX in every phone ever and it still holds great even today, doesn't lag at all even with the aging SoC (It's the same one using in a [I]Smartwatch[/I] these days) due to the great optimisation and the fact that everything works with native code, it could be a killer for both budget phones (Which Nokiasoft is gaining quite some space in) and flagships ("I don't need to be a giant phone to have good battery life because my system isn't very intensive or run over a Java-like VM")[/QUOTE]
Dude, I was excited as shit the first time I used an N9 as well. Fact is, my HTC Radar is running as smoothly as the N9 was back then, and it's on the same hardware. Fluidity wasn't a problem with MeeGo, and it isn't a problem with WP. I mean, the 520 was one of the most popular budget phones last year, largely because it was cheap and ran rather well.
Much of the UX for MeeGo actually carried over to the Asha series, which is at least something (the way they did multitasking on the N9 was amazing, though). But yeah, it was a great design and I'm really sad to see it go. But no, I don't think it would've succeeded.
I still have my N900. It's great, although I moved onto an S3 because I wanted a bigger screen.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;46302906]Nokia as we knew it p. much killed itself after E(f)lop released his Burning Platform memo even though the N9 and it's potential successors had the potential to shake the mobile market[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6ThLFOETQ[/media]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;46304408]All joking aside from the N-gage the N95 was a really killer in gaming, it emulated the Genesis in nearly native resolution, had a couple of native games for Symbian and the 8gb version could even play Quake 3
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[editline]22nd October 2014[/editline]
The N9 had the absolute best UX in every phone ever and it still holds great even today, doesn't lag at all even with the aging SoC (It's the same one using in a [I]Smartwatch[/I] these days) due to the great optimisation and the fact that everything works with native code, it could be a killer for both budget phones (Which Nokiasoft is gaining quite some space in) and flagships ("I don't need to be a giant phone to have good battery life because my system isn't very intensive or run over a Java-like VM")[/QUOTE]
Also iirc it was the original platform for the Resident Evil: Degeneration game before it came to smartphones.
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