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    misterc | # 2681 | 2011-05-24, 23:08 | Report

    Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
    well if he is a Nokia emplye maybe he is actually working on weekdays and dont have time sitting here all days...
    you mean he does night shifts on the factory floor ?!?

    (it's two AM in Helsinki right now...)
    as a matter of fact he started posting on Friday and did quite a few posts then.
    or maybe he only works four days a week?
    you never know with those Scandinavians, right?
    or even 3 days a week?
    he posted yesterday too (specifically to let us know he had to return the device he had)
    thus he was @ work

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    Frappacino | # 2682 | 2011-05-24, 23:35 | Report

    Common sense at last!

    Bravo !

    Originally Posted by CowMan View Post
    I suspect the teaser 'leak' was intentional. The 3 day grace before the video was taken down is a bit long, and Nokia doesn't seem to have appealed to YouTube to use it's content matching to remove copies. It is most certainly a teaser, as it lacks clear shots of the hardware and shows two (or by my eye, three) inconsistent variants. The song is cut-off at the end, which can only be intentional but probably done to imply there is 'more to come' & that this is an unfinished video ('leak').

    I also can't reconcile the type of hints dropped by some posters here with my own experience under NDA's, nor logically what their relationship would be to Nokia, except from a marketing angle. The predictions are vague but universally positive, non-technical, reliant on mysterious contacts & the general line is consistent.

    Together, this implies that what we are seeing now is an attempt to ramp up the general marketing in an attempt to create buzz, nothing more. The only conclusion to draw at this point is that there is /a/ device pending, but we knew this from the FCC filing.

    And if this is so, then Nokia may be switching into damage control, as any marketer watching this thread or similar ones alike would probably be quite worried about how far the expectations have been risen & the veracity of the virtual keyboard/hardware keyboard debate. Reading backwards, I can see indications of this ~ though this perhaps is confirmation bias.

    In a few weeks, we'll know the fate of the RM-680. I'm hoping it will be plausibly available to replace my N900. If there is also a keyboardless version down the pipes, that would be perfect as a second unit - or for the wife (as sliding mechanisms are not toddler friendly, one advantage of the sealed & nearly buttonless iPhone). Without something more concrete at this point though - images, specs, clarifications - I find this thread is breeding more fear/frustration than anticipation.

    To those who might read a line or two above the wrong way, rest assured - I mean not to impugn anyones reputation nor cast doubt on their claims ~ these are my observations, by no means accusations.

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    jakiman | # 2683 | 2011-05-24, 23:42 | Report

    But I love rumours. It brings in imagination, ideas, what people wants or needs all rolled up into one.
    So keep the rumours coming please. It's better than waiting for Nokia to actually do something......

    btw, this thread made me dream about the N9 last night. lol
    I was using it and was getting real excited about its UI.
    Luckly, my bed was kept dry through the whole thing....

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    misterc | # 2684 | 2011-05-25, 00:16 | Report

    Originally Posted by Brock View Post
    10:17AM Andy Lees is saying the disconnect from one application to the next is like "walking through the front door" when trying to go from the living room to the kitchen.

    That sentence is stolen from marko ahtisaari, he said the same thing about meego at LeWeb 2010!

    you guys cant imagine how much i dislike ms...
    i think Marko was referring to the fact iOS doesn't support multi tasking thus no task switching or task list.
    as long as wp7 doesn't support multi tasking, same thing goes for it.
    Maemo is / was multi tasking & has a task list.
    hope the same thing will be true for MeeGo right?

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    jakiman | # 2685 | 2011-05-25, 00:29 | Report

    They all have some form of multitasking. Just limited.

    iPhone - It has background running services. Not really multi-tasking as we know it. But sadly most don't seem to care.
    Android - Does have a task manager/switcher. But it's limited and pauses/kills apps in background. (very annoying)
    WP7 - After this Mango update, it has better multitasking than iPhone or Android imo. Very much S^3-like.
    Maemo - We know it already. Currently the best imo. Full proper multi-tasking. Wish N900 had better CPU and more RAM!
    Harmattan - if what K123 said was true, it seems to be similar to Maemo with live thumbnails and swiping between live apps.

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    misterc | # 2686 | 2011-05-25, 00:38 | Report

    Originally Posted by misterc View Post
    [...]
    NOKIA [...] still are the biggest company in terms of selling mobile phones.[...]
    correct that
    apparently Q1 2011 they slip on 2nd position...
    http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/nokia-...e_skin;content

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    jakiman | # 2687 | 2011-05-25, 00:48 | Report

    Yeah. Samsung is HUGE. Afaik, it's the biggest conglomerate in the world. They make everything nearly. lol.
    You should check out the Wiki page. It's scary how big they are and how much bigger they are becoming.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung

    Wiki seems a little outdated as they are even bigger now.
    Also, wiki says they are #2 behind Nokia. Not now obviously.

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    RAZOR | # 2688 | 2011-05-25, 01:05 | Report

    They've only surpassed Nokia in western Europe afaik. Nokia is still the number one seller overall as of now.

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    aironeous | # 2689 | 2011-05-25, 01:15 | Report

    Here's a meego tablet at the conference
    http://tinyurl.com/3kh8vfo

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    nwerneck | # 2690 | 2011-05-25, 01:26 | Report

    http://twitter.com/#!/GeneralAntille...91480436604929

    http://twitter.com/#!/qole/status/73195839715147776

    So , Jessie's Girl is in the building???

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