Drowning in River Nokia

Mayb they should go back to making paper pulp. or was it rubber boots...

Nokia.

There was a time... not very long ago, when perhaps every mobile user sweared by Nokia. It wasn't so much the features, or the cost - it was its reliability, its ease of use and as Nokia claimed it - The Human Connection. Blame it on bad coverage... but they certainly seems to have lost that connection. The last great phone that nokia made was the 6610. This was when the color LCD models were creeping into the market - and the 6610 oozed elegance. It was rock sturdy and performed like a prize bull. And what followed from the then avant garde 6600 to the latest N series is, in plain euphamism, a shame.

Before i step into a rambling about the new N series.. a little word on the new Symbian 9 series 60 edition. EPOC has done the homework... though not exactly a linux, this peice comes as close as it can and has done a fair peice of justice to the E series ( yet another disappointment ). The N series comes armed with this as the operating system. Though this has the familiar Nokia interface, it sufferes from pretty much the same problems as its predecessors - sluggish performace. open an app, go have coffee and come back, maybe your program would have opened.

To give the entire family the same bloodline is very idealistic, but they carry their genetic problems... and Nokia just infected their entire product line.

The N95 is touted as the next generation in mobile technology. i beg to digress.

priced at an exhuberant Rs. 34000 this meanie is a GPS armed is a navigation device, a mobile, a poratable media player, a 5 mega pixal cam... a jack of all arts - but a master of? what good is all the food in the world, when its served on unseravble cutlery... ok bad analagy.

so whats next?

i''l follow it up.. morro...