Phones Show Chat 3

[slitchfield]

For completeness, Phones Show Chat 3 is now online, and thanks to Tim Salmon, we've now got show notes for the three shows so far. There's also now, as of this morning, an official iTunes feed for the podcast, for convenience, as well as the main RSS feed. Comments welcome, as usual. Note that this audio podcast is cross-platform, so it's not totally Symbian-safe(!) Coverage also includes Android, iPhone and lots of N900/Maemo references.

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[davidmaxwaterma]

Quite interesting chat, I suppose. Good to hear different opinions.

Shame to hear the negative comments on the N900. Is it missing anything the iPhone had when it was first launched, I wonder?

Originally Posted by davidmaxwaterma

Quite interesting chat, I suppose. Good to hear different opinions.

Is it missing anything the iPhone had when it was first launched, I wonder?

It's not even nearly as easy and intuitive to use as iPhone was. Maemo 5 is, as Vanjoki said, step 4 out of 5. It adds telephony to Maemo and takes user interface lot further, but it's still not ready for "average consumer" market. Maemo Harmattan and Symbian ^4 will be Nokia's big platform switch. Maemo 5 is important stop gap along the way.

Please note that I say this as someone who has used the N900 prototype and plans to buy N900 once it is in stores. It's one helluva geektoy and I totally fell in love with after using the proto. It's just not a mass consumer market product.

[MonzaMike]

Steve, why not mix the PSC into mono, & thus halve the size of the download?
I don't mind if the opening music is mono! Enjoying the show, thanks, Mike.

[slitchfield]

It wouldn't halve the download size - maybe drop it by 30% if I take the sampling down to 64kbps.

But I like having the voices in stereo, i.e. panned slightly left and right 8-)

[RogerPodacter]

Great podcast steve, i enjoy them

So i find it funny how nokia artificially imposes these sales "projections". For example the n900 could be a monster seller in the usa, but oops they forgot the most popular 850/1900mhz bands. To me it seems they did it on purpose to desce the n900 into only selling in small volumes.

There are endless other examples and models which mirror this practice. They makes a kickass device but then put in a 950mah battery, almost purposely crippling it so it won't sell millions. I swear i wish i could figure out nokia's decisions.

Now i understand maemo is not mature yet for mass sales. But they should have been doing this planning ahead 2years ago such that it would be ready for mass sales by now.

Just look how poorly nokia managed s60v5 touch phones. The 5800 is out for a year and then the n97 comes along which looks like nokia learned nothing in that time period. Why is there such disconnect within nokia's own design teams? It just looks so embarrassing.