At 03:36 2001-08-10, benjamin wrote:
>But what about Nokia. Are there any folks who actually hate Nokia as a brand ?
Well yes, to some extent, but it's more what is behind the brand. They are
one of the main factors for us not having a usable mobile Internet in the
western world. By having such a dominant position on the handset market,
and then not having any decent mobile Internet capable handsets (they have
still not shown a functional GPRS phone) they are perhaps they have
effectively stopped development. This is perhaps not mainly by purpose, but
rather a combination of what they believe is timing optimization and their
inability to hammer out something good. It took them two years to renew the
Communicator to the 9210. Without GPRS...
Nokia's GPRS systems is also one of the worst when it comes to supporting
more pure Internet technologies than WAP. We are still having problems in
several Nokia GPRS networks with HTTP/text connections (such as in
i-mode/WAP 2.0 rather than WAP 1.x).
So from having been seen as a patron for smaller start-ups in the wireless
field, together with Ericsson and Motorola, it is now more appropriate to
view them as hangmens...
/gustaf
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Received on Fri Aug 10 11:02:21 2001