AAS Insight 68 - Ovi Store, Xenon, and operator service strategy

[slitchfield]

In All About Symbian Insight 68 (AAS Podcast 126) Rafe and Steve talk about the upcoming Ovi Store in relation to Widsets, N-Gage and uploading content, before sharing their recent device purchases. Steve explain why he prefers his device with an Xenon flash and Rafe talks about 3's and Orange's service strategy. You can listen to AAS Insight 68 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.

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[Tzer2]

(in the pub beer garden)

So that's the secret location you said you were off to in the previous newspost... :-)

Xenon. yawn

Wickets??????

Wickets????
Widgets!!!!!

[slitchfield]

Yeah, yeah, I know, I promise not to mention Xenon again for a while on AAS. Though watchers of the next Phones Show will get a minor earful, I think.....

I don't make massive apologies though, there are MANY people who share my opinion that a camera phone is horribly crippled *without* a Xenon flash.

[highdiver]

Of course camera is crippled without Xenon! I would say it is decapitated...

I really don't understand why the mentioning of the Xenon bothers some people, it is extremely useful...

[morpheus2702]

It's not so much Xenon in and of itself, just the amount of times Steve bangs ON and ON about it like a broken record.

[slitchfield]

Yep, and I'll stop now. Honest. For a week or three, at least.

[morpheus2702]

But no excessive Psion shout-outs!

[John the Monkey]

I did like the little segments about the devices you'd bought yourselves - always interesting to see what people who see so much of the available hardware actually choose for themselves.

[morpheus2702]

My usual moaning aside, I thought it was one of the best podcasts in ages. Much to be said for the 'live' format.

[davidmaxwaterma]

When Steve kept mentioning Xenon with his usual 'down the pub' story, I kept saying to myself, try taking a video with your fancy Xenon, but then Rafe said basically the same thing as I was thinking. There were other times like that - good to have a balanced team

BTW, Steve, I think you need to review the correct usage of '...and I' (or perhaps I got it wrong).

[neilhoskins]

Nice one, guys. My favourite bit was the wren in the hedge yelling his head off at the airbus flying over.

Just one thing about the Ovi Store. You mentioned native apps and WRT, but nothing about Java. I know it's All About Symbian, but Symbian smartphones run Java apps too, and sometimes I think it would be good to acknowledge the two billion Java-capable phones out there.