"Right now, HTC and Android own the mobile market"

suited-aces

http://awards.t3.com/the-categories/phone-of-the-year/htc-desire

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CLARE

I have this phone and love it!!! :T:T:T

330d

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/htc-desire-vs-iphone-4-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-702739?artc_pg=1

garybuk

Apart from.... they don't..... Nokia still 'OWN' the mobile market with marketshare HTC / Android / whatever can only dream of.

I don't think I could ever use a phone with android seeing as Google has some very dubious ideas of what to do with all that data it has on you!!


http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=8066

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092910-android-privacy.html

http://techliberation.com/2009/02/12/usa-today-on-androids-privacy-implications/

Don't even get me started on Apple$ privacy or lack of!!

Me? I'll wait for MeeGo

[Deleted User]

Nokia blew their chance to own the smartphone market years ago. Ovi is terrible and full of rubbish (overpriced rubbish at that).

They may have a bigger market share, but thats in the 'non-smartphone' market - it's also shrunk 11% in the last two years. Watch as their marketshare is kicked downwards over the coming years. They really rule the 'dumb' phone market - their entire business process is geared towards hardware, not software - this is what will kill their smartphone business in the end.

In the same time, apple has increased it's share by 5%.

I have sat next to me a very nice Nokia E71 - very nice hardware, terrible, crippling software. Tomorrow i get to upgrade, after a 17 month wait. Do you think i'll go for another nokia smartphone? haha, never!

garybuk

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Nokia blew their chance to own the smartphone market years ago. Ovi is terrible and full of rubbish (overpriced rubbish at that).

They may have a bigger market share, but thats in the 'non-smartphone' market - it's also shrunk 11% in the last two years. Watch as their marketshare is kicked downwards over the coming years. They really rule the 'dumb' phone market - their entire business process is geared towards hardware, not software - this is what will kill their smartphone business in the end.

In the same time, apple has increased it's share by 5%.

I have sat next to me a very nice Nokia E71 - very nice hardware, terrible, crippling software. Tomorrow i get to upgrade, after a 17 month wait. Do you think i'll go for another nokia smartphone? haha, never!

ERRRR Sorry to burst your bubble but Symbian's Market share GREW from 72,9k to 80,8k from 2008 - 2009, Nokia is going nowhere and neither is Symbian.

Get your facts right! Fact is .... Symbian has everything you need already on the phone, bar a few games etc... where as iOS and Android needs all these paid for apps just to do basic tasks.

Ugh all these uneducated people.....


http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513

JJ_Egan

Android needs all these paid for apps just to do basic tasks.

Paid for apps on Android to do basic tasks .Complete and Utter Nonsense .


Totally Uneducated Android user who moved from symbian .

jje

330d

I have been using Nokia phones for the last 8 years until a few months ago when I switched to a desire.

The android OS just shows symbian how poor and outdated the software is. And the ovi store has such a poor selection of apps.

The symbian market might have grew but one of the main reasons behind it is that symbian software is on budget phones where android and apple OS are on higher spec phones.

FACT is that people are getting rid of Nokia phones for apple and android.

330d

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Android needs all these paid for apps just to do basic tasks.

Paid for apps on Android to do basic tasks .Complete and Utter Nonsense .


Totally Uneducated Android user who moved from symbian .

jje

Such as?

I would say Nokia and symbian are for uneducated people as they are soon basic.

lozzaman

I used to love Nokia and I still hold fond memories of the N95. Yes, the battery wasn't very good and it wasn't perfect thanks to the shoddy battery cover design (tiny plastic clips that broke if you looked at them) but overall it was a solid phone that had every feature you could possibly imagine. The built in SIP stack came in particularly useful when abroad.

I now have a Desire which I also pretty much can't fault and is a definite improvement on the N95 (as you'd expect, it's 3 years newer!) and wouldn't look back at using S60 now. Nokia hardware for the most part isn't bad - I wouldn't mind if they made an Android handset. One of the problems with Symbian S60 is that it is going on lower end handsets, many of which the users don't even realise that there is other software for it, so it's not getting the focus from developers.

Look at Motorola - a manufacturer that had some handsets I wouldn't look at twice. Some of their Android handsets are quite appealing IMO.

I'm interested to know which basic tasks you think Android needs paid apps to achieve though?

ampletime

HTC have done a very good job over the past year or so and the Desire HD has shown what they can do. HTC don't pretend that they have invented video calling, a front facing camera or the ability to take videos on a phone. They produce good stable products that work very well and they don't need a ton of adverts to promote their phones. Apple phones do basic run of the mill stuff for a smartphone. they also block you doing things that the CEO of the company doesn't like.