If you’re a masochist, or someone who simply likes buying dead technology, the Nokia N9 ($TBA) should be on your cell phone short list for 2011. Running the latest version of MeeGo — an OS that’s already been left for dead — and sporting a suspiciously stacked spec sheet that includes a 16:9, 3.9-inch AMOLED screen, an eight-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus sensor and wide-angle lens, NFC technology, Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus support, and either 16GB or 64GB of internal storage, it’s the anti-establishment handset of the year. Oh, and the entire interface can be navigated with just the swipe of a finger! How novel.
Not that I don’t concur with what they are saying, but when has Uncrate become so snarky? — I like it.
To be honest though, the design is oddly appealing, reminds me of LEGOs. that on the other hand reinforces the feeling that this phone would be best marketed as a toy.
Horace Dediu translates RIM’s tablet platform app strategy for management-speak to English
This is worth a read.
Mr. Dediu provides a passionless translation of RIM’s Co-CEO Jim Balsillie’s remarks during the announcement of their quarterly results.
I’m very sceptical of RIM’s approach. Reading between the lines, I gather from it, that RIM’s own OS is neither ready for deployment, nor capable to do what they need it to, in order to compete with Apple.
Their decision to emulate Android apps on it that aren’t optimised for tablet computers, is a bad short-term solution at best and shows their lack of commitment to their own platform.
