Nothing like hearing someone rant to get your own blood boiling; Steve from All About Symbian is excited about the upcoming Symbian Smartphone Show and he is taking the times to reflect on things that just don’t make any sense, yet they still occur in the smartphone world. I too have some equally interesting enigmas that need answers:
- The name change from Series 60 to S60 was a fantastic move, now please think of something a little bit more marketable than S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 to call the OS on the Nokia N95.
- What do the XpressMusic and Walkman brands mean? Today we have a hard time finding a phone without a camera, equally as prevalent are devices that play music. Why the need to create another brand to advertise a feature that most phones already have?
- The first Walkman played tapes and went on sale in Japan in 1979. The CD playing Walkman graced planet Earth 5 years later. Every Sony device that has had the Walkman brand on it also happens to have a 3.5 mm headphone jack, yet a Sony Ericsson device with such a standard audio port does not exist. I’m not harping on SE either, most phone makers have this issue too. The Nokia XpressMusic 5610 that was launched at the Go Play event in London lacked a 3.5 mm jack, the smaller and thinner 5310 however did. People at Nokia tell me the product manager for that phone fought very hard to make that happen. Thank you sir.
- Hitting and holding the application key on S60 based devices to switch between running programs makes absolutely no sense to me. I only learned how to do that after reading an online forum. S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (there is that name again) addresses this, but it is difficult to judge how well it will be implemented and when devices based on that operating system will be released.
- When anyone goes from version 1 to version 2 of a software application or driver there is a change log telling me what was fixed. Why can’t phone manufactures do the same thing?
What confuses or upsets you?