There are five key announcements that will be important for developers:
- Availability of the Nokia Qt Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0
- Individuals can now register as Ovi Publishers
- Public beta of Nokia signing Symbian apps for free
- Availability of Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian
- Ovi Store intake for Qt apps
The Nokia Qt SDK allows cross-platform development for both Symbian and Maemo devices. Qt applications will also be supported on MeeGo, when it arrives. Creating C++ applications is quicker and easier than with previous development kits, and there’s a new, faster simulator included and additional APIs for mobile development. Forum Nokia cites the example of Shazam, who said, “It took us a year and a half to get our application developed to our full feature set on Symbian classic. Within 3 to 4 weeks we were able to put together a prototype working on Qt.” As well as Windows and Linux versions, a beta version of the Mac SDK has also been released. They are available for free from the Forum Nokia Qt section.
The announcements also make life easier for independent developers, who can now register as Ovi Publishers and distribute their apps worldwide through Ovi Store. Previously, you had to be part of a specific company or business. There’s a one-time fee of EU50 to register and apps can be submitted that are written in Qt, Symbian, Java, Flash Lite and Web Runtime.
Signing Symbian apps for free means that developers once again reduce their costs, which makes producing Symbian apps for Ovi Store more appealing. Historically, developers have had to pay and wait to have their apps Symbian-signed as part of the approvals process. Nokia has started a beta programme waiving this fee and introducing measures to halve the time required for signing.
The Nokia Smart Installer means that developers can send out their applications as a package without worrying too much about what parts of Qt need to be installed on users’ phones. The installer detects what files and libraries are needed by the app, looks to see what’s missing on the device and then downloads them automatically when you come to install it.
Lastly, the Ovi Store intake means that developers can upload Symbian apps for the Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6 and Maemo apps for the Nokia N900. The Nokia N8 will be supported from release, with additional – older and newer – Nokia devices supported in the future.
So, merely hours after I write my (arguably rather lazy) account of what I believe Nokia should do to keep developers coming to Symbian, two things happen. First, Ewan MacLeod of Mobile Industry Review posts what he described as a diatribe about mobile development and the area of 'developer relations' in particular. While it's rather obvious that his intended 'target' there was Vodafone's 360 effort, many of his points either coincide with mine (on how to handle 'big' brands) or nicely augment my ideas.
Then, what you see in the excerpt above happens.
And surely, this is not, in any way, doing any of the things I recommended they do, it's a (typical of Nokia) small step in the right direction. Will the "small" in "small step" turn out to be the keyword here? Who knows. I'm positive though, that without more explanations, and concise ones, this won't do much to lure those developing exclusively for other platforms to Symbian. It may, however, have a good impact on those already developing for Symbian, and perhaps thinking of abandoning or maybe just ignoring the platform in the future.
Because while these announcements are cool for people already familiar with every aspect of www.forum.nokia.com for example, your average "iPhone developer" will not even understand most of this. I'm serious.
The single most, erm... legible, if you will, thing in there is that individuals can now register as publishers. About time! The previous limitation of having to be a registered business to develop for the
Ovi store might have made sense 5 years ago, but today, in the world of garage-development, it doesn't. So glad to see it go away.
Nokia's Qt efforts have been big news for a while now, but not 'big' as in "widely reported and hyped-up" - no, this one is an instance of 'big' = important, sadly for the US-based "press". Good to see advancements there. The Smart Installer is, well, simply smart and much needed for people with older (and C: drive challenged) devices, since, as far as I know, the Qt libraries insist on using this drive to install.
Glad to see Shazam given as an example, and also to hear how quickly you can (in theory) develop an app in Qt, although, let's face it, anecdotal evidence is still anecdotal evidence.
I left the free signing last intentionally. All I can say about this is that, again, it was about time. This is great news for Symbian developers, and boy was it a long time coming!
Ok.
So.
Good news?
Definitely.
Excellent news?
Umm...no. Sorry. I still believe a lot of other things need to be done, and fast, in order to make developing for Symbian alluring. Today's announcements mostly consist of things that are being remedied rather than innovated.
What next? Obviously, what I described here.
Get on it, Nokia. There's still time.
First of all, Nokia should release estimates for the total number of apps for Symbian out there right now. Out there, not in the Ovi Store. I'm sure a forecasting/statistics department could do that.
Then release a "total number of apps for Symbian" stat that adds the number above to the number of apps in the Ovi store.
Is this cheating? Actually, no, it's not. It's the truth.
Next, get cosy with small developers. No, that shouldn't mean hire them, but work with them. Invest in their apps. People will jump to point out Jan Ole Suhr, famous for Gravity, a Twitter client that's very popular due in no small part to lack of serious competition. So, yeah. Invest in Jan's company. I can't really define the legalities of all this right now, but the idea would be to take a couple hundred (yes hundred) such developers and help them. By investing money or by volunteering Nokia developers to work alongside them on the apps. To get better integration into the OS, or just to iterate quickly.
Make sure any developer that wants to create an app for Symbian has access to devices (via long-term loans or outright giving them for free). Or at least give them all access to a service like DeviceAnywhere.
Then move on to middle-tier developers, such as Epocware. Make sure they have all they need to keep developing apps for Symbian and come up with new ideas (it's been a while) for apps on Symbian. Again, not just put out a press release saying how much you love developers. There should be a dedicated team for each developer inside Nokia. So, to continue with my example, 3-4 people should be the "Epocware team" in Nokia, ambassadors, if you wish, for the developer within Nokia.
Next, reach out to the idiotic big developers/companies that only have apps on iOS and Android and work with them to bring their apps to Symbian. If you have to, create the apps for them. It doesn't matter. But don't just rush some half-baked WebRunTime widget to the market. Work on complex functionality for these apps (if possible, exceeding that on the competing platforms), thus showcasing what Symbian can do. Do this for 30-40 'big' apps on the other platforms, and the rest of the companies having apps developed only for iOS and/or Android may wake up and remember which the highest selling smartphone OS on the planet is.
And obviously, invest a LOT in hyping all this up. Invest more in WOM World, but also look at creating more events around Symbian and simply flood the market with ads. Have a N8 Make My App style competition every week. Give away 10-20 phones per day for 6-8 months, in different contests, but engaging ones, not just dumb RT this and win type stuff.
Engage more on Twitter and Facebook. Have dedicated accounts/groups/pages for developers, for troubleshooting for developers, and for each service and each individual phone you sell. With employees there to help, naturally.
There.
Easy, step-by-step instructions.
Will any of this actually happen?
Probably not.
Why, you ask?
Well, because Nokia's biggest issue is not the hardware, nor the software of any of their devices, nor their services strategy. It's a mentality that, despite the best efforts of many, many employees and middle-management people, still goes something like "here, buy this thing - now leave us alone until you buy the next thing".
More is needed than their recent countless reorgs for this to change, sadly. And as long as they're still first in everything (well, except AdMob stats - remember those?), why try to change?
I don't see a big enough motivating factor. And they don't either. Which is why things will continue to incrementally get better, but at a much slower pace than they could. And sane people's perceptions of the company will remain the same.
I bet you weren't expecting that title. I mean it literally. No, really literally.
When this hits the market (in September, probably) 4 years would have passed since the announcement of the Nokia N95. Now, revolutionary as that was for its time, we have to agree that compared to the N8, it now looks like a good joke from the past. And its recommended sales price before taxes was EUR 560.
Four years later, the N8 (check that spec sheet again!)... EUR 370.
This is the single most important thing about this announcement in my opinion (well, aside from the five-band HSPA and Wireless N support). We all knew the specs already, we knew how it looks like even (although some of those color options are surprisingly cool), we all knew it would be running Symbian^3 (though many still have no clue what that is or what the differences between it and Symbian^1 or Symbian^4 are or aren't)...
But to pack all that oomph spec-wise into such a cheap package is quite something.
Something that most of the "tech bloggers" out there, even some self-proclaimed "Nokia fanboys", won't quite understand.
So, ranting off...
Let's get something straight.
There is no such thing as an iPhone killer. And never will be. At least, not a device. If there is a possible iPhone killer out there, it's Steve Jobs. His dictator-ish ways may be the end of the iPhone (or, most likely, not), but never an iPhone copy.
And by that I mean a same-form-factor device from another manufacturer. See, the N8, as many, many, many phones before it, from basically every manufacturer on the planet, is not an iPhone killer. It's an iPhone copy. They all were. This is just the climax of the iPhone-copying movement that has had tremendous influence in all big phone manufacturers since the original iPhone was announced.
Nokia tried to resist this tendency the most, but in the end caved. They seemed to be the only ones above this ridiculous rush to get expensive slates on the market asap.
That ends now.
No, the 5800 doesn't count, and neither do the X6, 5530 and 5230. For a very good reason: price. Those are very well played entries (well, perhaps except the X6) into new grounds for smartphones, slate or not. But they're much too far away price-wise to count in such a comparison.
I'm not sure at this point how well the N8 will sell. It probably won't be a bust. It may even sell better than the N97 and N97mini combined (that's a very hopeful scenario, but plausible nevertheless).
But strategy-wise, this doesn't make any sense to me.
Gizmodo won't love you now, Nokia. Neither will Robert Scoble. See, they appear to want iPhone copies from Apple's competitors, but in reality they can't wait to bash them and call them out for the copies that they are.
They don't like Android because of its similarities to the iPhone OS, they like Android because it's made by Google. Which, as Apple, is a big American brand/company.
Get it now?
This, the slate-form-factor, high-end device, is Apple's game. And playing by their rules means, quite frankly, inevitable defeat. Remember that Google Nexus One? Check its sales please. Yeah, funny, I know. And that was loved by at least half of the Nokia-bashing "press" (well, if they claim they are press when confronted with the police, I guess they are - after all, The Sun is press too, no?).
Yes, the N8 is still high-end, even if it is cheaper than I would have expected it to be.
I don't think this is the right way to go for Nokia, but I'm fine with being dead wrong.
I think the C6 is the way to go, but then they do something as incredibly stupid as releasing that with the 128 MB of RAM we've had since the N95 8GB (in 2007!).
I'm not in any way disappointed with the N8 itself. I can't say I'm very impressed with it either (perhaps except the colors and aforementioned global connectivity), since more or less all the hardware features it has were present before in other devices, albeit not all together, and in most cases crippled by insanely buggy software (i8910, I'm laughing at you). I'm sure this is the first phone to do 720p recording well. And I'm happy because of that, it was high time we moved away from the oh-so-not-digital-y and not 16:9-y VGA.
I'm sure I'll like Symbian^3 (because, unlike others, I know what to expect from it, and it does fix the things I found annoying in Symbian^1, while remaining almost as familiar UI-wise, which, strangely, for me isn't the end of the world), but then this won't be the only device running it, so that's not really relevant. Personally, I'm waiting for the rumored E7, although if the screen really is 4 inches and the battery only 1200mAh and iPhoney non-removable, I may have to rely on my trusty E55 for another year.
So the only exciting thing about the N8, in my view, is the price. Although still expensive, still high-end, it's way less then the 'flagships' of yesteryear, and that's a very good trend. Slates, though, are not, if you ask me.
Now go, explore the N8 some more, by clicking this magical link.
Note: this is a first impressions post, that in no way attempts to be exhaustive on the subject. Expect second, and perhaps even third impressions in the future. After all, launch is still 3-5 months away (likely 5).
Bluetooth headsets. You know, those things that somehow always manage to have a blinking blue led somewhere. Those things that when worn in public, make you look exactly as you would had you actually had a blue tooth. Not necessarily. It turns out that not all bluetooth headsets are created equal. Some may not even be that strange in-your-ear-but-not-quite, over-your-cheek-but-not-close-enough-to-your-mouth type of contraptions. No, no, some may look from afar as a high-end, overhead, professional, normal, wired, headset. And cost as much as a Nokia E55. And more than the E52, 5800 and almost as much as the E75 (prices based on nokia.co.uk). Gulp. Yes, ladies and gents, the BH-905. No pix, no vids, no gimmicks. That's how I roll. So, do I like it? Yes. Why? It's unbelievably comfortable. Seriously. Everything is cushioned. After a minute, you start to not feel it anymore. That in great contrast to a lot of over-the-head headsets, which you *start* to notice and feel after a minute and have to take off after 30. This? 4 hours? OMG, has it really been so much? I must get back to work! :) The fact that in the beginning you always have to read the L and R designations does take a little getting used to. You have to do this, since the way it's designed means you'll instinctively want to wear it the other way around, if you've ever worn another over-the-head pair before. This design does seem strange at first, but adds a lot to the overall comfort of wearing it. The sound quality is phenomenal for a bluetooth headset. What I mean, is that when connected via bluetooth (it also comes with all the cables and adapters you'll ever need if you want to use it as a wired headset, including an airplane adapter -neat), it does take you a while to realize that you're listening to music via a wireless connection. The bass is just a little bit thinner than I like it, but for 99% of the people, this won't be noticeable (it also depends highly on what music genres you're into, mind). Other than that, the audio quality is the same, no matter which connection method you choose. I haven't done any scientific tests on battery life, but it was more than enough for me. Best estimate? A few hours. Seriously, I didn't pay attention to that at all. Sorry, it's a bit hard to, when you're listening to music in such high quality. Also nice is that it charges via standard Nokia 2mm jack, which means, for example, that I charged it with my N95's charger. The volume levels on this thing seem illegal for the EU, but trust me, that's an amazing thing, not a bad one. Your eardrums will surrender long before you've maxed this thing out. The buttons are all big and nicely placed, it will take you less than a day to get used to their positions. You can skip and repeat tracks from the headset. Tested this even with 3rd-party music players on Symbian, and it works. It also features a noise cancellation switch, you can use this mode if you so wish or if you're in a very loud environment. It works, but does create an odd feeling of pressure in your ears. Not unbearable by any means, and, again, it is a switch. You also notice its effect a lot less when in loud environments. I've had long phone conversations from this, and have only let the other parties know I was on a headset at the end of each conversation. No one had noticed it. And I say this in all seriousness and honesty. If you read a lot of headset reviews, you'll notice that almost all of them contain this phrase, and trust me, most of the times, it just isn't true. The BH-905 is helped in achieving this feat by its external mics, which also help with the noise cancellation noted above, but they also 'record' ambient noise when you're talking and filter it out. All very well. So do I recommend you run out and buy one? As much as I'd like to, no. See, there are a few things I really can't agree with here. First off, the case. It comes with a case. Ok, you say. Well, yes. I don't know if it actually is leather, but it sure feels like it. And it's the only thing in the box. Yes, it's that big. Very useful for travelling, indeed. You can store your headset, charger and all the cables and adapters it comes with in there. Because, they all actually come in there. You can also say goodbye to a lot of carry-on baggage space. This does seem like a little bit of overkill to me. And as good as it looks, it does feel like it adds a lot to the price. Which brings me to the BH-905's biggest shortcoming: the price. I mean seriously... It's a headset. A good one, yes. A perfect one? Not without being able to pair to multiple devices at the same time. Not in my book. But anyway, a very good one. Still, I'd rather buy an E55. Or save a hundred more pounds and get the N86. You do whatever you want. I mean, if you have the money to spare, by all means, go get it. Then there's also the minor annoyance of having the 2mm charging jack and the 2.5mm jack used for connecting the audio cable (if you so wish) in the exact same place on the two different earpieces. Since there's only a .5mm diameter difference between them, it will take some getting used to which is which. Bluetooth transmission of music has come a long way. And bluetooth headsets have come a long way too. They're not quite at the 'prosumer' level of wired headsets, audio-quality-wise, but for many use cases, close enough. Yet paying this much of a premium (for it being wireless? for the case? your guess is as good as mine!) doesn't make much sense to me.
Not a review, you see, but a re-view.
Quick! Drop all of your "this should be the xPhone killer" thoughts about this device right now.
Also quick! Drop all of your "meh, yet another review of this thing that they used to call Internet Tablet - what does that even mean?!" thoughts right now too.
Ok. History.
Yes, I guess more people found out about Nokia's now-defunct Internet Tablet line of products since the N900 was announced than ever before. Which is ironic. Also ironic is the fact that these things (the 770, the N800, the N810) were devices primarily intended as a 'bridge' between the small-screened smartphone and the not-quite-so-portable-after-all laptop. Something in between. With a big touchscreen. That had a desktop-class (no, that really doesn't mean anything, don't worry) web browser.
Do these definitions remind you of something? Something announced in January of this year, perhaps, after being rumored for years (and, don't tell anyone, after being first considered for creation by God...umm sorry, the company that makes it...umm no, sorry, I didn't mean the ODM, you know, the fruit guys...anyway, first being considered *after* the first rumors were already out there)?
It turns out that others have done the pad (sorry, but with that name...) way before, and way better. Oh wait. The same is true for, well...everything else fruity.
Deep breath.
iNternetTablet. That better?
Add a qwerty keyboard (on the N810), cut the screen in half, so, you know, it actually won't be embarrassing to carry around *outside* the house... and you've got yourself one of Nokia's Internet Tablets.
No one got the point of these devices.
Few people get it today, looking back.
No market demand and all that.
And OMG, why would Nokia, I mean, a phone company (bear with me), make something that isn't a phone?, people cried, in their rubber boots. And cried. This would be a mass-market success story, if only you could fit a SIM card in there somewhere.... Right now, it's only a geek toy, but boy, if it were a phone...
Unlike other more fruitful companies, the crazy Finns have this unwieldy habit of listening. And that they did.
So there. We added phone capabilities. You happy now?
They weren't.
See, what happened was this needed to be a cult item. To fight against the other cult. Crusades and stuff. People never learn.
So has it killed anything?
Will it kill anything?
L O L.
Well, it may not kill the fruitPhone, but this is the death of Symbian.
Mmmyeah....
Riiight....
Always with the killing. Always with the dying. Jesus.
So is the N900 any less nichey than its grandparents?
By 1%? By 10 %?
In the UK, helped by Vodafone's (seriously guys, for the umpteenth time, that's how you spell it! fo' real!) absolutely insane ads, it may become more than that. Anywhere else?
Have you looked at where Nokia is selling these? Or better, where it isn't? Last time I checked, dozens of countries just won't be getting any.
You know why that is? Because when you design something like this, you go through production planning. And you plan according to how many you think you'll sell. So, guess what Nokia planned for?
Hint: not mass-market hit.
And they made this awfully clear when they priced it ~$150 (and that's in the US, where electronics are cheap because so few people can afford them -at least I think that's why they're this disgustingly cheaper than anywhere else) over the N810. Now, I don't know what TI (STM/STE? Can't be Qualcomm or MediaTek just yet) charge for their chips these days, but surely that's not where the premium went in its entirety. Screen should be cheaper, since it's smaller and still resistive, camera is still more or less the same SKU since the N95.... I know Cortex A8s are expensive and hard to come by, but still...
So they priced it into a niche.
That should have given you another hint.
UI?
It's good. Can't argue with that. Oh wait, I can.
It's good if you use two fingers. And two hands. No portrait mode at launch...there's your other hint.
I know many people have said this before (not as comprehensively), but I just had to welcome everyone back to reality in my own way as well.
It's an Internet Tablet with phone capabilities. Nothing more, nothing less.
And that's just fine. With me at least. I don't want it to be a serial killer (yPhone and Symbian, remember?), I want it to be a gadget. Which it is.
But.
It's not a phone.
I've used it for about two weeks now (cheers, WOMWorld... I wish more A-list bloggers knew about what you're doing and considered describing it as an example worth following), and not once as a phone. Sorry. It's too heavy, and most importantly for me, too wide. Bluetooth headsets, you say? If I had a BH-905, maybe. But I wouldn't wear that in public (hint:instant thief magnet). And I wouldn't be caught dead with a dongly headset. So should I use the N900 as a landline replacement? Didn't think so.
You should then stop laughing at Nokia's defining it as a mobile computer. That's exactly what this is.
A mobile touchscreen computer. Which, unlike its competition (this is the point where you start calling me crazy if you've correctly identified what its competition is in my opinion), also has a qwerty keyboard. And is also a phone. And has a normal SIM slot (yup, call me crazy again since now you're 100% sure). And can multitask (and will blow your mind while multitasking, trust me on this one, all of you who pronounce Nokia "no-keee-ah"). And can be carried around without any hint of embarrassment.
Told you it was a re-view.
So will it kill the padding? No chance.
Does it best it though?
Tough to speak for all possible use cases (again, with a name like that, what do you expect?), but in my book (e-?), it should. At least it has the potential to.
Problem is, Nokia did realize they've had no success with the Internet Tablet branding and positioning, so they decided the N900 and adding the phone bit to it would be the right time to kill that. (the violent language has gotten to me)
So they stripped the Internet Tablet from its name, and then basically just sat there waiting. The cult-seekers did the rest, sadly turning it into episode 3478 of "nothing can kill the uPhone".
The "this is step 4 of a 5 step strategy" soundbite also didn't help, no matter how true it is. The "Maemo 6 will break compatibility because we've decided we should maybe, perhaps finally do something with Qt" part didn't help either. Yes, yes, I know, in the long run...blah blah...
On to the N920(?) then. Q3. Slate. I wouldn't get my hopes up for the branding and positioning to change. Another missed opportunity, perhaps. Sometimes it's just better to stick with an idea. Even if all the vocal early-adopters shout against it, if enough time passes, people will get used to it. Embrace it even, if you do everything else right. See because then you have the bragging rights for "we saw the potential here first". No one can take that away from you. Whereas being a wPhone-killer lasts for about 5 seconds, until the next one comes along. And fails.
This evening, at the official N900 meet-up in London, the Maemo marketing team revealed that Nokia plan to drop Symbian from the entire ‘top end’ N-Series range of handsets in favour of Maemo by 2012.
Finally, but still semi-officially, someone has the guts to put Nokia's plans into words. Plans that were really not that hard to figure out, mind you.
So, what is this?
An interesting experiment for Nokia. While doing this tomorrow would certainly make sense from the "we-must-appeal-to-Scoble" perspective, doing it "by 2012" (which, this being Nokia, probably means the end of 2012) is a lot tougher to understand.
By then, Symbian what, ^5, will be available? Is that still not good enough for high-end devices? Probably, but since I'm rather sure it hasn't yet gone into *any* development phase, how would anyone know that?
Again, strange, but expected. And even though Nokia might deny this tomorrow, I'm pretty sure it IS their actual plan.
Oh, and also expect S30 to disappear around the same time. Completely. Disappear. I'm hoping S40 will too (it really needs to), but that probably won't happen as it will be replacing S30 in the low-end. The same way Symbian will be replacing S40 mid-end. Get it now?
You know what's funny?
This ensures Symbian will be the #1 mobile OS (by sales - no, not by number of fart apps, thankfully) for at least 5 more years. Although no one will tell you that.
Why?
It will rule the mid-end. You know, the second best selling tier after, you guessed it, the low end, which basically offers no 'smart' phones.
As for Maemo... It's an interesting project, and I'm still waiting for version 6. And for a browser that doesn't advertise itself as being built on "Mozilla technology". And for portrait mode. And for it to be, you know, a proper smart*phone* platform. That, right now, it isn't.
But hopefully this time next year it will have become that.
Will it be too late?
It may actually be too early. But more on that on another day.
Now go, you've got 9567 "Nokia is ditching Symbian, which is dead and buried" very, very, smart posts to read elsewhere.
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Bear with me.
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Opening MaemoProject.com takes us to this screen. Nothing seems to happen for a long time, then around the 9th minute something does and a penguin(?) appears on the table for a second. The trick is to click on the Penguin when it appears, thus giving yourself a chance to win a N900 or the BH-95 headset (I’ve never heard of the BH-95, have you?). Next, simply enter your name and email address and hope that you have won.
Vaibhav Sharma cracked the code and solved the mysterious clues I've given you in the previous two posts. Kudos, Vaibhav!
On a side note, BH-95 might be BH-905 with a typo, or a new, yet-unannounced headset, we'll see.
And a warning: the penguin comes and goes pretty fast, and if you don't click on it in time, the counter will reset and you'll have some more waiting to do.
Good luck!
Don't ask. I have no idea what "major compete" is or is supposed to be.
Received this highly cryptic picture from WOM World today. Till now, I've found out that Abul has too. May be others. Stay tuned, I'm sure more details will be available soon.
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