UtestMe » maemo-mobile http://utestme.com just words Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:48:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Nokia N9 – deeper cuts http://utestme.com/nokia-n9-deeper-cuts/ http://utestme.com/nokia-n9-deeper-cuts/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:48:36 +0000 utestme http://utestme.com/?p=6400322213 Engadget and Slashgear.This phone thus becomes the smartest phone Nokia built, unavailable anywhere!I think I’ve never seen so much confusion, lack of strategy, PR suicidal actions and so many believers let down in such a short [...]]]> Nokia N9 won’t be available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland either, besides US and UK, report Engadget and Slashgear.

This phone thus becomes the smartest phone Nokia built, unavailable anywhere!

I think I’ve never seen so much confusion, lack of strategy, PR suicidal actions and so many believers let down in such a short time.

Could anyone imagine the company that actually made the app-enabled OS massively popular in Europe is now refraining from launching a linux-based project that so many people strove to bring alive? What else could be worse than to trash your best efforts and ideas?

I know, there are several logistic and marketing reasons for not launching the N9 in these countries; but why should they reach to this point, in the first place? Why would anybody work for a dead project? Who is the person that makes Nokia project managers accept it’s reasonable to seed dead seeds and bear dead children? That person, my friends, is something you should avoid at all costs, as it literally sells death instead of life to its own people.

]]> http://utestme.com/nokia-n9-deeper-cuts/feed/ 6 MeeGo N9 a threat to WP N9 http://utestme.com/wp-as-a-far-cry-from-meego/ http://utestme.com/wp-as-a-far-cry-from-meego/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:56:00 +0000 utestme http://utestme.com/wp-as-a-far-cry-from-meego/ Slashgear): “After the very positive reception to the launch of the Nokia N9, the product is now being rolled out in countries around the world. At this time we will not be making it available in the US. Nokia [...]]]> Nokia does not plan to launch its first & final MeeGo device in US (via Slashgear):

“After the very positive reception to the launch of the Nokia N9, the product is now being rolled out in countries around the world. At this time we will not be making it available in the US. Nokia takes a market by market approach to product rollout, and each country makes its own decisions about which products to introduce from those available. Decisions are based on an assessment of existing and upcoming products that make up Nokia’s extensive product portfolio and the best way in which to address local market opportunities” – Nokia.

Translation: We are not going to jeopardize the Microsoft powered N9 US sales by letting the customers compare a better MeeGo to a worse WP, given the exact same hardware premises.

Microsoft is desperate to first be a challenger in the US market, and only then to be preset in non-US markets. That’s the “market by market approach” Nokia is talking about.

Apart from this, that’s also a confirmation of a hunch: MeeGo powered N9 is by far a better competitor to Android and iOS than WP will ever be. Sometimes, the roots of failure are visible far before the seed is even sowed.

 

EDITED: Microsoft Nokia plans to launch the N9 with WP, as well, after MeeGo launch.

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Read on.

]]> http://utestme.com/asymco-phone-brands/feed/ 0 Nokia’s MeeGo is killed. Again http://utestme.com/nokias-meego-is-killed-again/ http://utestme.com/nokias-meego-is-killed-again/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:47:03 +0000 utestme http://utestme.com/?p=6400322022 kill another new born Nokia engineers strove too hard to give birth. It turns out the N9 is just a dummy, a mere prototype of future WP powered Nokias. Elop carefully misses every opportunity to enter Nokia’s history; he’s busy building Microsoft’s with Nokia’s flesh and blood. I [...]]]> It took Elop 2 days to kill another new born Nokia engineers strove too hard to give birth.

It turns out the N9 is just a dummy, a mere prototype of future WP powered Nokias. Elop carefully misses every opportunity to enter Nokia’s history; he’s busy building Microsoft’s with Nokia’s flesh and blood.

I wonder whether MeeGo could have become a solid technological and architectural competitor to iOS, both Android and WP being just simple hoaxes against it. I also wonder whether Jobs could use such a sound competitor as a secondary route.

(via Daring Fireball)

]]> http://utestme.com/nokias-meego-is-killed-again/feed/ 0 Nokia N9 – a “split second” too late http://utestme.com/nokia-n9-a-split-second-too-late/ http://utestme.com/nokia-n9-a-split-second-too-late/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:50:58 +0000 utestme http://utestme.com/?p=6400321985 N9 video Oh my God, you’re looking at a MeeGo OS running on a Nokia, which looks and feels some 255 times better than a Windows Phone 7…! There are two very bad news, though: First, the N9 is supposed to be launched in September, therefore, perhaps, it’ll be entirely overshadowed by the [...]]]> N9 video

Oh my God, you’re looking at a MeeGo OS running on a Nokia, which looks and feels some 255 times better than a Windows Phone 7…!

There are two very bad news, though:

First, the N9 is supposed to be launched in September, therefore, perhaps, it’ll be entirely overshadowed by the launch of iPhone 5 and iPad 3.

Second, this would have been a killer in 2009 – 2010, when Nokia was trying hard to forget entirely abut their new born at that time – the Maemo project. I don’t see Microsoft paying for this.

The developing platform for N9 would be QT. I have no idea who are the developers though.

 

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