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Unhappy users of Nokia OVI store

Monday, June 29th, 2009

My last post on Nokia Ovi application store seems to proove the points. One month after its launch the online store provokes negative impressions and comments on the Internet. I’ll cite one of them related to poor customer support posted by Matthew Miller on Nokia Experts blog.  I totally agree with arguments in that article and comments from Nokia users. In this time of economic slow down when users are desperately trying to get more for less, Nokia allows such an arogance to strip down the customer support to lower levels yet rise high revenue margins for their application distribution services. That obviously does not make them competitive to other mobile phone and application developpers and they continue to loose the market.

Last weekend I’ve met friends, a small mobile application development team, and discussed their view on the future of Nokia. They’ve totally agree that Nokia’s attitude does not favour small developers with restricted budget and they are turning to Apple. I bet there are many others in the mobile development industry that will follow the same trend with catastrophic results of Nokia Ovi store. That explains why there is such a poor offer of new contents for Nokia phones. Nokia continues its old strategy to release plenty of new phone models but they don’t realize that it is not what customers want.

Now I’ve regret even less that I’ve switched from N95 to iPhone…

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From N95 to iPhone

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Three years ago I’ve migrated from Windows to Mac OS. I wrote already about all the advantages and I’m pretty sure you all know about them already, so I won’t repeat them.
This time I’d like to share some toughts on migration to iPhone. Two years ago I’ve got Nokia N95. That amazing small marvel packed with hardware features and connectivity. I tought, that was the ultimate mobility gadget. What else might one want. When Apple released IPhone I was so dissapointed it was not 3G. A year later, as I wrote last July, I was watching very few fans waiting in front of Softbank store in Tokyo to get the latest 3G iPhone. Still remember Japan Times article highlighting all that was still missing on the latest IPhone. I tought that Apple still has to go a long way to reach Nokia’s success with their handsets.
Than came the iTunes store. Quickly filling with tens of thousands applications. In all categories, if not free than very reasonably priced. Almost free compared to prices of equivalent Nokia applications.
At the end of my two years contract with my phone operator I’ve decided that the choice of applications outweighs all dissadvantages. Here I am blogging from my new iPhone while old N95 is off- line waiting to transfer remaining photos and videos to my Mac. The “fruit vendor” from Infinity loop won!

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3G iPhone launched 45 minutes ago in Japan

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

It is 45 minutes past midnight here in Tokyo but very few people are lining up in front of Softbank stores to wait for opening hours and get their hands on the new 3G iPhone. Although previous Apple novelties saw much more interest among fans that were literary camping in front of Apple stores, this one is not going to be even available in Apple stores in Japan! What a disappointment.

Apple store in Ginza, Tokyo

Just to remind that Japan is one of rare countries that uses only 3G mobile phone networks. Mobile phone is like having a watch around the wrist. People are quietly sitting (or rather standing) in metro watching TV, surfing the Web on their mobiles or chatting with friends. Mobile sets have large displays that can rotate, touch screens, multi-cameras and many other features that the rest of the world is only discovering.

Both travel guides that I’ve brought from Europe, although quite recent (published 2007), incorrectly stated that European mobile phones will not operate in Japan. That is simply not true if one owns a 3G phone. Both my Nokia N95 and my wifes Sony Erricson W880i work perfectly well, and mobile Internet is very fast!

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Developing applications for 3G iPhone

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Without much surprise, Steve Jobs announced global launch of the 3G iPhone as of the 11th of July. Technical novelty (only for iPhone version 1 users, Nokia users already have that) is a GPS support. There are no much other news. Disappointingly the camera remains only 2 megapixel. It is also not confirmed that the phone will support video calling. The color is black or white, like iBooks. Perhaps we can expect iPhonePro soon in silver?

As anticipated with SDK beta, 3G iPhone is powered with software version 2. Disappointing news for developers is that Apple follows Symbian practice in locking software by certification requirement. Developing even free applications for iPhone requires participating in “standard program” which costs 99US$ (”enterprise program” sosts 299US$). It is not currently known how long would it take to test an application and get it certified, but the advantage is that the application would be distributed through the Apple store.

Clearly new iPhone targets enterprise users with the synchronization support for MS Exchange (too bad for Notes and GroupWise users) . There is a potential for dethroning BlackBerry in that market. However, I am not convinced that iPhone’s 10 million units sold in 2008 objective will seriously damage Symbian’s hundreds of millions units sold figures.

Certainly I will keep my Nokia N95 for a while (at least until the expiration of my 2 years contract with the mobile operator) And I will continue using it to access mobile Internet, together with geotagging, 5 megapixel camera and full 3G speed (with video calling). Moreover, I will blog even more with my N95 thanks to Wavelog version 2 (still in beta though).

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Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN near Geneva

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Compact Muon Solenoid

If you think it is a “StarGate” on the above image you are almost right. To be precise, it is a part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at Point 5 on 27km ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (European Nuclear Research Center) near Geneva (Switzerland). The CMS detector is 12 500 tones superconductor solenoid capable of generating 4 Teslas magnetic field. It is located in Cessy (France) almost 100m underground. Hopefully this monster will detect Higgs boson when later this year LHC starts its operation.

CMS entry point

On the above photo you may see a part of the tube consisting of superconducting electromagnets just before it enters the CMS detector where two beams of particles traveling at close to the speed of light with very high energies will collide.

Both photos were taken on Sunday the 13th of April 2008 during the visit of Point 5 in Cessy with Nokia N95 and posted with Wavelog.

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