I am free today ,so a long post,yippe
N9 is a great phone,perhaps the best looking finnish phone yet(with due respect to blue N8 and Nokia 6500 classic)
But for 32k,It is seriously overpriced. Almost like a limited edition (which it actually is)
Prices should stabilize for around 25k.Never lower. Even At that prices Nokia will never have enough Phones to sell.
I actually know people, who Buy Latest N series as a fad and dont know even what maemo or meego means. I am sure they will be blown away
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Android is a bloated OS ,No doubt about that. My last phone was a Motorola Defy. Previously I had used desire and thought it was a great phone. Then I demo'ed a htc win 7 phone and was aghast that at exactly the same platform how desire played spoilsport.
But saying android is to blame is like saying Crysis is/was a badly coded game (which It was ), just because many high and mighty disc graphics did not manage it well. . If you gotta have your cake and eat it too, you need a better hardware platform and worse keep upgrading it every 6 months.
What android has essentially done is benefit not only google with admob all over the place,But also chip makers like Qualcomm , TI , Nvidia who will keep on making more powerful,more power efficient and more expensive Socs that will eventually find its way into a cutting edge android 2.6 phone.
Android is a java virtual machine but many aspects are directly controlled by the kernel( display/audio/ppwer mgmt) . It needs time to mature. But most importantly it needs unification of the diverse UI we are seeing all over the place. And google please,Slow down the pace of your development.
OMAP 3630 used in both defy and N9. I thought of it as a midrange Soc . Untill I saw videos Of N9 on the tube. I collected pieces of my jaw from the floor and continued writing this post. I still remember 6 months ago when one of my mates got N8 with Galaxy on fire preinstalled. On android the game runs well only on SGX540 and above. While The Nokia does it with a 680 Mhz processor and a broadcom GPU.
The thing that actually makes android awesome is the 80% free apps/games in the market.
I love the N9 , But cant do without Inortia and Opera mini. But still for a phone that is candy enough to be eaten, if you have the moolah go for it.
p.s The phone pictured above is not mine.It is an official Nokia photo sourced from google Images. Btw nice photo.
Regards,
aka.
