@ Duscrom, You seem shocked that the iPhone isn't as popular as Symbian devices. (Must be an American like me...) Outside of the US, the iPhone isn't nearly as popular. We lead the world in buzz creation.
The Symbian OS and especially Nokia's Nseries and Eseries, are the world's most powerful and popular devices spanning a multitude of similar specialized models vs. one Apple model. You may know about Apple's iPhone, but Nokia's N95 greatly outsold it worldwide with 11 million sold and counting, and has been the real global smartphone phenomenon for people that need a device with more features and capabilities.
The only reason its not big in America is carriers are so afraid to carry the device because its so powerful, goes around all its apps and services profits with better, many times free alternatives, the unlocked models' mobile broadband radios only work on at&t's pitiful 3G network, and Nokia spends zero dollars marketing in America.
European and Asian smartphone users laugh at us Americans for favoring WinMo and iPhones, claiming them to be best, because everyone else knows the N95 8gb will absolutely embarrass an iPhone in most power usage and functionality tests that aren't rigged to favor simple tasks or avoids anything that requires alot of computing power. In fact, I'll be make the bold claim that my N95 8gb can perform every task the iPhone can, but all at once.
I wrote this comment on my device, and have replaced my laptop with it. The iPhone couldn't replace a laptop in anyone's imagination. So point blank, Symbian is more popular because its so much better.
Claims of difficult to use interface are unfounded. My teenage niece and nephew had no problem figuring it out, and they both agree it does way more than an iPhone, and more like their desktop PC. It only needs 2 buttons and a D-pad to operate. That extra button will only throw off the folks that need lessons to use Windows. And using it will immediately prove Symbian has 50x's more features and functions. Nseries devices take pictures and videos of such high quality, your iPhone can't even open them. The iPhone is simply to underpowered to open such high spec files. It can't even compare to an N95 8gb's DVD quality video capture, 5 megapixel camera with pro grade camera optics for the best photos on a phone, and ability to install ANY app the user wants.
@ EvilPaul, Don't mislead by claiming Symbian's dominance is mostly attributed to featurephone sales. They have nearly no US marketshare despite plenty of featurephone sales. They have 40% of global SMARTPHONE SALES. That's multitasking, open app installation, S60 Nokia devices, not S40. Americans aren't very exposed to them, but the world isn't stupid, we are.
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@ Duscrom,
You seem shocked that the iPhone isn't as popular as Symbian devices. (Must be an American like me...) Outside of the US, the iPhone isn't nearly as popular. We lead the world in buzz creation.
The Symbian OS and especially Nokia's Nseries and Eseries, are the world's most powerful and popular devices spanning a multitude of similar specialized models vs. one Apple model. You may know about Apple's iPhone, but Nokia's N95 greatly outsold it worldwide with 11 million sold and counting, and has been the real global smartphone phenomenon for people that need a device with more features and capabilities.
The only reason its not big in America is carriers are so afraid to carry the device because its so powerful, goes around all its apps and services profits with better, many times free alternatives, the unlocked models' mobile broadband radios only work on at&t's pitiful 3G network, and Nokia spends zero dollars marketing in America.
European and Asian smartphone users laugh at us Americans for favoring WinMo and iPhones, claiming them to be best, because everyone else knows the N95 8gb will absolutely embarrass an iPhone in most power usage and functionality tests that aren't rigged to favor simple tasks or avoids anything that requires alot of computing power. In fact, I'll be make the bold claim that my N95 8gb can perform every task the iPhone can, but all at once.
I wrote this comment on my device, and have replaced my laptop with it. The iPhone couldn't replace a laptop in anyone's imagination. So point blank, Symbian is more popular because its so much better.
Claims of difficult to use interface are unfounded. My teenage niece and nephew had no problem figuring it out, and they both agree it does way more than an iPhone, and more like their desktop PC. It only needs 2 buttons and a D-pad to operate. That extra button will only throw off the folks that need lessons to use Windows. And using it will immediately prove Symbian has 50x's more features and functions. Nseries devices take pictures and videos of such high quality, your iPhone can't even open them. The iPhone is simply to underpowered to open such high spec files. It can't even compare to an N95 8gb's DVD quality video capture, 5 megapixel camera with pro grade camera optics for the best photos on a phone, and ability to install ANY app the user wants.
@ EvilPaul,
Don't mislead by claiming Symbian's dominance is mostly attributed to featurephone sales. They have nearly no US marketshare despite plenty of featurephone sales. They have 40% of global SMARTPHONE SALES. That's multitasking, open app installation, S60 Nokia devices, not S40. Americans aren't very exposed to them, but the world isn't stupid, we are.