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Browsing Howard Forums I came across this post:
as the title says, but let me elaborate. i put all my songs in one playlist i jsut transfered it through the card reader/writer, so now i have 300 songs but how do i find a specific song faster? can the music player group through id3 tags? or genre or just simple typing it? what about the newer firmwares? i have 3.60
Poor guy, it isn’t his fault Nokia can’t make a competent MP3 playing application for his 6280. What’s more upsetting is that he will never see an upgraded music player application since that would require an entire firmware upgrade. Nokia isn’t going to do that. I need to start a movement at the S60 development team within Nokia. Componentize, componentize, componentize! One shouldn’t need a brand spanking new firmware if you’re just going to update one application!
Back onto the topic of an "iPhone," everyone knows Apple doesn’t bring anything new to the market with its iPod line. What they do correctly however is a drop dead easy to use interface, along with a product that is sexy. Matt is a Nokia employee who gets it, I just wish the rest of the company did:
Design can be taking away, it can be doing less, it can be doing the-same-but-better. And better. And better.
Sometimes the inventions you need are already exist, but haven’t been honed or applied correctly. We went through a big design exercise this year with our business (and some great help – thanks Scott!) and came to similar conclusions.
The dance of the big and the small continues.
UPDATE: Christian Lettenbichler corrected me on a few things. The 6280 isn’t a S60 phone, apparently it’s S40v3. He also states that the 6280 is up to firmware revision 5.92 which does have a better music player. This still doesn’t change my mind that Nokia should componentize their development. Thanks for pointing out my misinformation Chris.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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