Re: What is happening to Symbian?

"Peter" <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I have just got a Nokia 700.
>
> Looking at the available apps, it seems obvious that app development
> stopped c 2009. I guess developers just dropped it as soon as the
> Iphone started moving. Somebody told me the developer kit was £18k and
> that wouldn't help.
>
> I know Nokia are trying to move to WM, which will be "interesting"
> because WM has always been the worst piece of buggy crap in the
> business. I still have a WM PDA (Fuji LOOX) which I use to run TomTom
> but the last WM phone I used was a Thuraya satellite phone which was
> utter crap with loads of bugs, and this is a current product today.
>
> The other curious Q is why does anybody pay £60 for TomTom "Europe"
> (plus another £60 for the Greek Add-on ) when on a Nokia you get no
> less than TWO driving nav apps which seem to do exactly the same job,
> for free.

because the Nokia's not really "free" is it!

tim

"Peter" <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "tim...." <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>
>>> The other curious Q is why does anybody pay £60 for TomTom "Europe"
>>> (plus another £60 for the Greek Add-on ) when on a Nokia you get no
>>> less than TWO driving nav apps which seem to do exactly the same job,
>>> for free.
>>
>>because the Nokia's not really "free" is it!
>
> Of course not, but I paid £550 for my GF's Iphone4 and THEN paid £60
> for TT "Europe" (with Greece evidently being non Europe )

That's because, for historic reasons, the Greek government regulate who can,
and can't, make large scale maps of Greece and charge very heavily for the
privilege of so doing

>whereas
> the most expensive non apple smartphone is no more than £550 and you
> get the sw included.

what's that got to do with a comparison with a 60 quid Tom Tom?

tim

"tim...." <tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Peter" <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1pkig79m396h23ee6nbpdhbuqu29aj7e04@4ax.com...
>>I have just got a Nokia 700.
>>
>> Looking at the available apps, it seems obvious that app development
>> stopped c 2009. I guess developers just dropped it as soon as the
>> Iphone started moving. Somebody told me the developer kit was £18k and
>> that wouldn't help.
>>
>> I know Nokia are trying to move to WM, which will be "interesting"
>> because WM has always been the worst piece of buggy crap in the
>> business. I still have a WM PDA (Fuji LOOX) which I use to run TomTom
>> but the last WM phone I used was a Thuraya satellite phone which was
>> utter crap with loads of bugs, and this is a current product today.
>>
>> The other curious Q is why does anybody pay £60 for TomTom "Europe"
>> (plus another £60 for the Greek Add-on ) when on a Nokia you get no
>> less than TWO driving nav apps which seem to do exactly the same job,
>> for free.
>
> because the Nokia's not really "free" is it!
>
> tim
>
>

Maybe, but it IS fully inclusive. You get the application and as many maps
as you care to download for no extra cost. Greece is included, but one or
two countries (like Tunisia) are not for some reason.

The navigation on my N8 may not be as sophisticated as a dedicated
navigation device (way points, tracking etc.) but is more than adequate for
normal use.

My [old] N79 upgraded its maps only firmware to include navigation - also
without extra charge.