Five Things Nokia is doing good in Smartphones(S^3)

Well after recently reading a post in AAS, I decided ok, Nokia has faced a lot of flak this year , But they must be doing something right to sell so many N8's . Here are the Best I can summarize:




1) Common Platforms: N8 is the shutterbug's delight. C7 is the party animal. But C6 is phone that will perhaps sell more then the two combined. Inspite of the obvious price and positioning differences It is great from a dev point of view that the cpu architecture and the screen resolution is same in all three phones(and also in upcoming in E7). This will probably lead to end of voes similar to what some users post on forums :"Why does oval racer lag on my brand new N85"


2)Fantastic Media consumption: Again What Nokia has done is seamlessly integrated divx,xvid and even the stellar matroska profiles in the default video player. What this hardware enabled codecs means is that you get smoother video and better battery life then you will get with software rendering. Another point to be made is that while the music player remains at usual high quality labels, The external speakers , though mono bring back the memories of good ol' 3250. (I am yet to hear the C6 yet,as it has not started selling here.

3) Photo and video editors out of the box: Yes I know I could have integrated this point in the above two points, But then these basic features are what I appreciate the most especially when comparing them to competing platforms.

4)Metallic Magic: Another positive I would like Nokia to continue. All three phones have good amount of metals in their construction. What this does is apart from making the phone more sturdy,also lends it a certain quality feel. Infact most people who see C7 do think of it as some sort of "spiritual" touchscreen successor of E71/E72 series.

5)Continuation of N series: Well I like others was might dissappointed with the N97 , though I also like others bought one when it came out. Interestingly every single N series I have bought like the N95, N97 , and even the N79 had some or other problems when it was new, perhaps the curse of early adopters. But I kid you not , The N8 is a different sort of Nseries. I mean what si the use of a new N series phone which does'nt hang, doesnt reboot and does not show "Memory full" messages. Well Nokia have changed and it is for better .

regards,
aka.