Seems like Nokia left out the E71. But people on HowardForums have been able to use Ovi maps with turn-by-turn in the US, and there is talk that it will be available as an update for the E71. Link
Looks like this is the result of the countdown…
SAN FRANCISCO, US, and LONDON, UK, 4 February, 2010 - The Symbian Foundation today completed the open source release of the source code for the world’s most widely-used smartphone platform. The Symbian platform, which has been developed over more than 10 years and has shipped in more than 330 million devices around the world, is now completely open and the source code is available for free. The transition of this market-leading platform from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history. The move has been completed four months ahead of schedule and provides the basis for unlimited mobile development based on innovation and openness.
So Nokia jumped ship…
Hum… Symbian still has 48% of of smartphone maket share, so this could be big… But I’m still contemplating going with an N900 and Maemo. They need to announce a new phones!
im hoping with the new phones comming out that the n900 goes down to shy under 500 then ill pick one up
The plan was for a new Maemo phone to be released every 6 months, so we should be seeing some new phones announced soon.
And with Symbian, Symbian^3 is going to be out this year with Symbian^4 coming next year. So they HAVE to be close to announcing some new phones… I hope!
It was already $430 for awhile.
That code only worked for a few hours and they pulled it. You can’t find that price anywhere.
llink found that last week when it popped up, and it didn’t work.
One of the HoFo nerds I know got one on it…
Sure, when the discount code still worked.
MWC is coming up in a few weeks so maybe Nokia will have something new then.
I kind of hate my phone.
You’ve still got the e71 right? Why do you hate it?
I don’t know.
I feel like it fights with my car some times.
And some times it takes it forever to sync w/ exchange (which is probably my exchange servers fault).
Anyone want it?
MWC is this week… no new phone announcements yet despite a rumor of 14 new phones including the N8 with HDMI output, 12mpix camera and a bunch of other goodies…
Symbian^3 Video though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdGyZYrix9g&feature=player_embedded
Doesn’t look as slick as Maemo IMO.
I have a boner for the HTC HD2 w/ WM7 right now… maybe keep the e71 as my knock around phone come Q4…
Seriously. More and more phones are coming out with 1GHz snapdragon processors and 800xXXX capacitive screens, gigs of memory… Computer with a faster processor, more memory, and more storage than the one I took to college my freshman year… that fits in my pocket? Yes please.
Well so much for maemo.
If it now has intel and nokia behind it there’s no reason for it to fail other than bureaucracy…hopefully that doesnt happen
i have had the noka 5800 xpressmusic phone for about a year now . i bought it before it released in the us. the phone is still better than many out there, but soon i will upgrade to the n97.
$449 for the N900
Shit, very tempting…