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There are some wonderful apps out there, but do they actually get used? What constitutes a ‘critical app’ for you?
On the Nokia E55 I used to keep with me at all times, despite also having iPhones, Android’s, Blackberries and Windows Phones on a regular rotation - I was always conscious that the device came with all the critical apps I could ever need already there. Ovi store downloads don’t match Apple’s App Store, but that’s because you need to visit the Apple App Store to get your phone to do the things that you can do out-of-the-box on a Nokia Symbian device. Windows and Android show similar traits. They come with most of what you need.
Nokia’s Windows-powered Lumia 710 now available for pre-order. Expected in Jan 2012. Initial experience of WP7.5 via Lumia 800 suggests that Windows/Nokia partnership is gonna offer serious competition for Google and Apple next year.
Microsoft’s Xbox Companion App shows how ‘Dual Screening’ ought to work. Yeah it still looks a bit slow to respond, but it’s early days.
I’ve seen demos of similar functionality from Motorola, which required a separate set-top box, and Samsung which required the user to have a Samsung phone and an up-to-date Samsung TV, but Xbox is already in millions of homes, and works with any TV, and Windows PhoneOS is already on a myriad of rather lovely mobile devices. Add the Zune marketplace, which is getting better by the month, and you’ve got something quite exciting going on.
Imagine, Nokia putting all their effort into hardware innovation and using Android OS, clean and simple… hang on, Windows? It’s not bad at all anymore but far from proven or a magnet for 3rd party app developers yet. Maybe Nokia knows something we don’t, maybe this article has it wrong… maybe nokia will say nothing. I’m intrigued. Does that make me a geek? Ha! good
