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It has email, web browser, camcorder, HSDPA, Wi-fi and GPS and it can even dance!
The Nokia zippo was the first one. Now anorectic models (118g) are out anyway and there is a new dancing queen (210g).
It has email, web browser, camcorder, HSDPA, Wi-fi and GPS and it can even dance!
The Nokia zippo was the first one. Now anorectic models (118g) are out anyway and there is a new dancing queen (210g).
Last week was very busy week in Madrid. S60 Summit, Demonstrations, parties, dinners. I barely found time to do any shopping there:-) Phil has already listed web coverage of the S60 Summit in see into S60. No need to repeat.
100 million S60 phones landmark is now reached. Samsung announced a new device SGH-i400 and LG starts to ship JoY in Europe. Nice milestones.
In my opinion S60 should systematically announce shipment numbers like Symbian. Every quarter! Not every now and then, including sometimes Nokia numbers, sometimes all licensees. There was an announcement on 3GSM time about S60 shipments. "Nokia alone has cumulatively shipped nearly 85 million S60 enabled devices by the end of 2006". Now it's 100 million all the licensees all together. Cumulatively. I like hard facts, exact terms, systematic approach, not marketing BS. If you know a card game called tuppi, one very basic principle is that cumulative points are never counted. It only matters what you have now.
Usually I don't comment about competition, but this time I want to do it because this is also relevant to S60 and smartphone market in general.
Apple iPhone was launched yesterday. I must say that it's touch UI looks really cool. HW design is really from 21st century and it's different than other smartphones have. No randomly placed buttons around the device in every surface. Fits to my personal taste.
Some may say it's not a smartphone because there is no extensibility option i.e. it's closed environment, but for me it is a smartphone. There is also some short of extensibility option via Widgets. Multimedia features, email and full web browsing. I would recommend competitor intelligence guys to include iPhone sales to total smartphone market in future, no question about it.
Welcome competition! This proves that you can get to operator portfolio in US with Wi-fi. From the feature details on web I couldn't find other traditional telco services than CS voice and SMS. Nothing else is really necessary? Or maybe it's too early to say. Consumers will decide.
This will increase awayness of smartphone capabilities, like web browsing, and boost the total market growth. Competition is not a new thing among mobile device manufacturers and I'm very happy that we have Apple in the club.
LG announced the first S60 device on Smartphone show. I haven’t the tried it yet, but at least spec looks good. HSDPA, 3rd Edition FP2 and small size in the same packet. Development of JoY is going to be finished on 1Q 2007.
There is a one video clip about JoY on Youtube. It was interesting to check what’s there if you just search by S60. Naturally lots of Volvo stuff but also some software related videos. Also clip about Samsung’s latest S60 device (SGH-i520) is there. This seems to be recorded in Symbian stand.
Shipments of Nokia 3250 have started this week!