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A200 something for SE to buid on, or more high-end smartphones in the future? |
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What do you expect from the inevitable successor to the current A200 in SE's future feature phones? (A300 or an evolution/major revision of A200?)
A200 has earned a reputation of being a less than stable platform with the former imaging flagship K850. More recent phones don't suffer that much but people do tend to keep such negative impressions in mind for quite some time.
Most SE users/owners like the UI, they like it for its user friendliness and if they own a Walkman-branded phone, the music software. Are there any possible ways to improve on what is currently on offer? Even more eye-candy or something of more substance?
One thing that it is capable of, that for instance Nokias S40 isn't, is running multiple Java applications simultaneously, provided there is enough memory and processing power.
Maybe future high-end phones from SE will be based on Symbian S60 or perhaps even Android? I would personally prefer C905, a phone that I'm very fond of, as a smartphone. Am I alone to have these thoughts, that high end devices that aren't primarily design/fashion oriented feel too constrained by the lack of flexility that A200 imposes?
Is A200 a good good enough base for high-end phones of the future?
SE's smartphones have, with the exception of maybe G900/700, been pure business solutions. Many UIQ-based phones, along with UIQ itself, have been canceled. With X1 they had the ambition to create a business solution with very competent media consumption capabilities.
Can they manage to develop phones on multiple platforms and produce smartphones with much broader appeal?
So what do you think? Will A200 be the main platform for their high-end offerings, or will it only be present in in their more affordable, less tech oriented phones?
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I'm pretty satisfied with the A200 platform in terms of features and usability. I just hope they can iron out the little kinks and make it as responsive and stable as the A100 platform. I would very much rather go for a phone running on the A200 platform than a smartphone as there aren't much features I need that aren't available on the former. |
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Nope, A2 is definitely not a good base fo future high end phones. Nokia owns the market most, and most of its top selling phones are smart phones, and these buyers would definitely not buy a feature phone because they dont have symbian.
Trust me, when you will get used to an OS such as symbian or WM, you would definitely not wanna miss out their features and expandability, which A2 simply isnt upto.
Btw, its about time that A2 should be updated to have divx and a document viewer/editor and winrar.
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i wouldnt say a2 is best platform.. but it has potential..
i still feel that its the programmers who have failed miserably...
all we want from SE is better / increased processor speed and few extra MB of ram....
that will do the trick...
A2 failed miserably only while handling media player and 2 or more java apss... all based on RAM of the phone... once the RAM got filled... to prevent further unstabiliuty the phone simply restarts... just likewe have in PC`s...
anyway .. anything we / SE should learn from the mistake is " THE CURRENT GENERATION IS MULITTASKING GENERATION " and they wont stop for anything short / less////
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Btw, its about time that A2 should be updated to have divx and a document viewer/editor and winrar.
Good point. They could also improve video recording capabilities, resolution and framerates are lower than competing brands, not just Nokia but LG. |
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They're still developing it and adding features. Trust me 
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That's exciting. More high-end feature phones from SE with an evolved A2.
Different approach from Nokia with their high-end phones being smartphones.
I guess there will always be a market for those who don't want an overly complicated device to operate, as suggested above.
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se_dude
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@Mizzle-What can we expect from A2 in the near future?? |
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On 2008-12-28 17:57:30, se_dude wrote:
@Mizzle-What can we expect from A2 in the near future??
Conversation messaging is probably the most obvious. This has already been implemented in the W705, and will get more mainstream throughout 2009.
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se_dude
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Shall we see more multimedia related upgrades,such as the implementation of more codecs and the presence of a document viewer?? |
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A200 is stable in my C702, although a bit slow at times, so maybe more RAM and/or processing power to compensate might help.
More codecs, document reading, winrar, better video recording and an option to accept messages only from the list (just like the manage calls options) <--that would make A300 (or A200+) the perfect platform for me...
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Posted: 2008-12-28 01:53
