Great and interesting comments. A few clarifications:
- Nokia has been talking with google for quite some time. As an example Google Talk and other Google assets have been prominently featured in the great Linux-based tablets (sorry AAS, but had to write that) ;-)
- The agreement with Google does not mean that Google gets exclusive ownership of the Web search channel in Nokia Search: Also Baidu (largest in China), Yandex (Russian ruler), Yahoo! and Windows Live are viable options to choose from.
- About backporting onto existing devices: More challenging for maps 2.0 and Nokia Search with Google plug-in.
For Maps 2.0, it is possible to install to 3.1 devices, and for it to work on 3.0 devices, additional testing would be needed: I am not sure if this is going to happen, but I presume that the priority is to get this testing completed for the most recently launched devices (of which more and more are based on S60 3.1 - N95 and N95 8GB, N82, N81 SD and 8GB, E90, just to mention a few.
For Nokia Search, the Google plug-in features new implementations that utilise the device platform in a bit different way than previously. This makes the backporting challenging.
-thanks.
12-02-2008 12:06 PM
icebox
nokia dropping older phones?
I begin to start feeling that I'm left out.
I always liked nokia that they kept supporting older devices. But more and more (like e.g. maps 2.0) it seems that nokia only thinks about n95 and up.
No more updates for e series? Already. I still want to see demand paging coming to my e61. I mean it is a perfectly good phone, powerful enough for almost any new application (i.e. I can run the new nokia internet radio even if they didn't bothered to make a e series version, i can run youtube and so forth) and still new features don't come to older phones. I always thought that buying a business oriented device assures a longer product lifespan. It seems today the trend is to forget business users and concentrate on "convergence devices"
12-02-2008 09:42 AM
Nick17
Big Google is watching us..!
12-02-2008 09:07 AM
Unregistered
Too much Google?
Maybe it's me being paranoid, but I am beginning to think that too much Google can be a bad thing. They are pervasive in all aspects of your life. Those of us that fill in Google forms are providing them info into our personal lives which in turn goes to the government, contrary to what Google says.
Just a though. Removing tin-foil hat.
12-02-2008 08:53 AM
Nick17
Is it me or can some of the business-search-result already be found in Maps 2.0 (in the "Google-way")..?
12-02-2008 08:13 AM
slitchfield
Nokia to offer Google search results
Ah yes, good to see Nokia and Google talking to each other at last. It seems that they've inked a deal to include Google search results in Nokia's on-device Mobile Search utility. The rollout will start with the new devices announced yesterday and will then come in firmware updates and downloads to existing devices in various markets in due course. The press release is below, if you want the full details.
