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Tsepz_GP
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On 2009-10-16 10:10:00, Bonovox wrote:
What about s40 touch screen i aint seen anything like that yet. Its a good simple easy to use menu and would be popular with the mass market as are their s40 candybar handsets. Strange they have not done that yet.
NOKIA do make Touch S40 phones, but they are exclusively for the Chinese market. Here they are:
3208c: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_3208c-2920.php
6208c: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6208c-2621.php
I have no idea why they keep them for Chinese market  realy odd.
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Bonovox
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That is extremely wierd considering Nokia have had some of if not most of their biggest selling phones based on that platform here in the UK. Why do phone companies do things towards the opposite way of trends? Well some do sometimes not in the case of LG or Samsung. I do still like s40 if i am honest. When i had my old Nokia 6303 well its not old but anyway i downloaded a theme from Zedge which changed the s40 boring menu icons to Sony Ericsson icons which brightened it up. Its a good menu system just needs some life breathed into how it looks.
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Nokia have probably reached the state where you can't improve the S40 UI much more before it collopses.
I'm just eager to know if Nokia will keep supporting Symbian Foundation and will make high end handsets with that OS or if they have decided to limit it to mid/low end?
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What i mean regarding s40 is just spruce it up with nicer graphical icons like the SonyEricsson menus. S40 is good but its a touch bland and boring and also they need to support multi tasking with it. Although you can do quite a few things at once with it but not everything. Are Nokia not going down the Android route? Just looked at them Chinese touch screen Nokia phones. Why such small touch screens? 2.4 inches is too small 
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On 2009-10-16 16:07:00, Bonovox wrote:
...Are Nokia not going down the Android route?...
No. They've put all their eggs in the Symbian basket.
They've invested heavily in making Symbian Foundation a viable open source alternative to Android.
Where as Nokia used to see themselves as competitors to Microsoft in the smartphone market, they are now working with Microsoft (signed a deal to use Office Mobile 2010) to combat the threat from upstarts Google and Apple.
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I thought they were also working on Maemo. . . . .
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