nice writeup...but steve jobs saw 50years into the future...IOS is here to stay[/quote]



You sure....? Cos the CONSTANT thing with us humans and our world is CHANGE.

Regular listeners to the 361 Degrees podcast will have heard many times of Rafe's
legendary 'six year rule', when referring to
smartphone platforms and ecosystems.
With Blackberry seemingly imploding
before our eyes, with Nokia having been
snapped up recently by Microsoft and with Symbian increasingly being forgotten in the marketplace, I thought it worth both
expanding on Rafe's rule of thumb and also
charting it graphically. A mosquito lives
for a week, a hamster for a year or two,
smartphone operating systems about six or
seven years, and (happily) human beings about 70 to 80 years. Life and death, all in
1000 words? It can only be an All About
(sites) editorial.... In the grand tradition of 'a picture is worth
a thousand words', and please forgive me
for minor inaccuracies in the axes
(especially the 'y' axis), here's a rough
overview of the sales in each of the seven
smartphone software platforms of the last decade or so. Note that the dotted line is
'now' (i.e. September 2013, as I write this)
and that everything beyond this is, of
course, pure conjecture. But hopefully
you'll spot the shape of each of the curves
and get the point: Now, legions of readers will be shouting
that iOS, Android and (yes) Windows Phone
won't be dying away by 2018, but remember
that four years is an eternity in the mobile
world - four years ago, Android was
nowhere and the (plastic) iPhone's camera had only just acquired auto-focus. In four
years time, maybe we'll be into another
new phase of personal mobile computing -
wearables, smarter, smaller, voice-aware
PDAs (see the 'future' segment from this show, from 2011, for example) - who knows? The big take away from the chart above is,
of course, that all operating systems and
ecosystems rise and fall. Of the clutch that
heralded in the smartphone era, Symbian's S60 interface was massively dominant, with over 60% of the market at one point.
Symbian's UIQ and Series 80 interfaces were
dropped, Palm OS never really made the
transition from PDA to smartphone as
successfully as it perhaps should have done,
while Microsoft's Windows Mobile was never able to fully shake the feeling that it was a
stylus-centric PDA with phone features
added in as an afterthought. Meanwhile,
S60 sold by the many tens of millions per
quarter by pretending to just be a 'phone', a
trend that now sees the smartphone as ubiquitous in 2013 and outselling low end
'feature' phones. The capacitive touch-driven iPhone's much
celebrated arrival in 2007 was a bit of a slow
burn in terms of worldwide sales and it
took a couple of years for Apple to catch up
with the rest of the smartphone world in
terms of basic functions, but iOS was really motoring by 2010 and the iPhone 4. Android
also took a couple of years to get going, but
was finally able to combine iOS's capacitive
touch with a fully cloud-aware operating system , and the rest is history. Windows Phone, Microsoft's reinvention of
the smartphone, tried to learn lessons from
the iPhone and iOS (capacitive touch,
superlative UI response, normob-friendly
pseudo-multitasking, anything tricky - like
a file system - hidden away from the user) and from Android (customisable start
screen) while integrating the Internet even
further into its core, with the
aforementioned file system effectively
manifesting in the cloud as SkyDrive. But each of these operating systems is (or
was) a product of its era. Symbian, for
example, is much derided for its lacklustre web browser and the way connectivity isn't as seamless as on other platforms. But
Symbian was created in 1998, when the
standard way to get online was via packet-
switched data on GSM and, even when GPRS
came along, there were big financial issues
in going online at all - hence all the 'go online?' prompts and checks. And
remember that when Symbian Web first
appeared it was revolutionary, being the
first Webkit-based browser to run in a
phone form factor - at a time when the
iPhone was still a gleam in Steve Jobs' eye. iOS (née iPhone OS) and Android were part
of the brave new world of smartphones, of
course, with connectivity baked in
seamlessly, with flexible full-screen touch
interfaces and serious computing and
graphical power available for ambitious gaming and the ability to deal with
mainstream web sites , which were getting more and more bloated, doubling and
trebling in byte size. But will we look back
on iOS and Android in four or five years
time, explaining to our kids why iPhones
and Galaxys used to be big sellers because
they were well suited to mobile life in this early part of the decade, but that they were
ultimately too restrictive for the next big
wave of personal mobile computing? Every smartphone OS has a peak, above -
everything in life undergoes change. We're
born, we grow up, mature and finally grow
old and die, and the same is roughly true of
software. After all, modern operating
systems are almost as complex as a human body and subject to similar entropy and
wear and tear (on their code). In that light, it's no surprise to note the
news from this week that Blackberry's long
run is coming to an end - it, like Symbian,
had survived well beyond Rafe's 'six years',
but in each case it was with a certain
number of reinventions and writhings towards the end. Blackberry had evolved
into a smartphone platform after years as
just a heavily message-centric device, but
its reinvention (OS 10) came a couple of
years too late. As it is, there was a certain window of
opportunity, between 2008-2010, for a
company to take lessons for the 'brave new
smartphone world' and produce mass
market products for the 90% of people who
don't want or (more usually) can't afford an Apple iPhone. Windows Phone sneaked in at the very end
of this window, in late 2010, and has been
playing catch-up ever since, despite some
innovative UI ideas and often some
excellent hardware. The delayed start to
Windows Phone's life cycle does perhaps mean that it's more future proof than iOS
and Android and that its sales peak is still
somewhere in the future, as shown in the
chart. Maybe. Blackberry, launching products based on its
new OS 10 at the start of 2013, was a good
two years behind the competition in this
touchscreen slab form factor and, with its
traditional QWERTY candybars becoming
an ever more niche form factor, was always facing a nearly impossible task. That it
failed isn't a reflection on the technical
merits of OS 10, but more on the timing of
its very existence. I've deliberately talked in general terms
above, in line with the diagrammatic
nature of the chart, and I've also happily
mashed together devices in with platforms
and ecosystems, but hopefully the broad
brush strokes ring true to you. Quoting from no less than the Old Testament : "For everything there is a season". Blackberry's
is now over, so is that of Symbian, Palm OS
and Windows Mobile, leaving just three
current mainstream smartphone operating
systems. The really exciting thought is 'Where do we
go next?' What will be in our pockets, on our
wrists, mounted above our eyeline (etc) in
2018? Comments welcome!

check ur settings or post screen-shot of ur settings[/quote]



VILLA,I SET THE LEFT PORT AT 500 and the right at 0,anything else I should've done...?

VILLA,HOW DO YOU USE TROIDVPN? I DOWNLOADED IT FROM THE LINK YOU GAVE,NONE OF THE SERVERS ARE CONNECTING......

Villa,pls how exactly do you use this TROIDVPN?

Class 10's are the ultimate in speed and durability while class 6 are just good. Also class is based on size so the higher the class the larger the memory size.[/quote]


Thanks also...

A Class 10 card on average takes
between 6-9 minutes to transfer full 16gb data over to it. Class 6 is relatively okay too but not as fast as a class 10.[/color][/b][/quote]



Thanks,you've been educative here...

Godvilla,what is the difference between memory cards,most types I've seen are a class 6,but you've talked about a class 10 on this thread before....?

Guys,I've got good news, Cyanogenmod,becomes a company gets $7million in financing, aims to release a ROM installer on the play store....

By the way let me derail the thread a bit purely for scientific educational purposes on the BLACK HOLE.
If you want to see the black hole that is passing the sun right now till the end of 19th December 2014,you have to have at LEAST a 3 megapixel camera phone or camera,go outside when the sun is shining brightly,take a picture of the sun; and viola,you'll have a picture of the black hole

Guys,this shows how strong you are,just a single human being can distract you to spoil this sweet thread......

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PLANTS VS ZOMBIES

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HAPPY WEEKEND GUYS.....

Guys take it easy on the English o,odi kwa egwu!

The Microsoft buy-out: is there an impact on the
Symbian world? Published by Steve Litchfield at 14:19 UTC, September 5th 2013 It seems that Tuesday's news of Microsoft buying Nokia's devices arm, lock, stock and barrel, generated something of a storm of comment,
mostly on conspiracy lines. But, this being All About Symbian, I wanted to address the question
of whether the news will have an direct impact on
the Symbian world. Read on for my thoughts. Before looking at Symbian specifically, having had
a mountain of questions aimed at me (Steve),
wondering about my thoughts on the whole
saga, I should say that I don't agree with the
outright conspiracy theorists, claiming that the
last three years (the fall in market share and share price, the relative underachievement of
Windows Phone and the sale to Microsoft) were
all pre-planned - it's clear that no one could have
foreseen all of this in detail. However, as did many
others, there were signs all along that Microsoft,
Nokia and Stephen Elop did at least have this outcome as one of the likely possibilities. For example, the use of "Lumia" rather than a
Nokia device number or letter combination (as on
all the feature phones and Symbian devices)
could have been a response to Samsung's
"Galaxy" brand on Android. Or it could have been
a forward looking decision that meant that "Lumia" could possibly be passed on, seamlessly
to another manufacturer brand, in this case Microsoft ? [Ditto "Asha", by the way] Similarly, the rebranding of "Nokia Maps" to "HERE
Maps" on non-Symbian platforms also seemed a
little odd at the time, but with hindsight it makes
total sense, since the maps side of Nokia has
been free to expand into other markets (e.g. cars
and HERE Auto), especially now that 'Nokia' as a company isn't free to make phones for a few
years. But, I don't want to get too bogged down in
smartphone OS politics here. Stephen Elop's first
big move at Nokia was, of course, to publicly slam Symbian in a 'leaked' memo and then announce that Symbian was to be End-of-Lifed and Windows Phone to be Nokia's main smartphone
platform going forwards. Since then, we've had
several new Symbian smartphones (notably the
Nokia E6, 700, 701 and 808 PureView), numerous
platform updates (Belle, Belle Refresh, Belle
FP1/2) and a mountain of patches and updates, but these do seem to have slowed significantly in
recent months. Nokia originally claimed that support for Symbian
was planned "until 2016". In terms of hardware
repair and online support, this sounds about
right. Most Nokia Care Points (e.g. here in the UK) run as independent franchises and they'll be
happy to deal with warranty repairs or, more likely
at this stage considering device ages, take user
money for commercial repairs, so not much will
change here with Microsoft running the (mainly
Windows Phone) show now. Nokia-run Care Points and support centres will apparently 'be transferred to Microsoft' and 'customers won’t
actually experience any difference'. Even the official online (support & discussions forum sees the majority of responses coming from either other users or Nokia employees in
their spare time. Most the latter will now work for
Microsoft but their motivation hopefully won't
have changed too much. And official
representatives, though already re-trained in
Windows Phone/Lumia matters, will still retain their Symbian device knowledge. What of the Nokia Store, the first port of call for
Symbian applications in the last few years? From
a very shaky start, the Store client and the server
functions improved markedly, to the point where
the user experience was at least in the same
ballpark as the iPhone and Android app stores, even if the range of applications and games was a
lot smaller. Already (mid 2013) we're seeing
some commercial applications and games pulled
from the Store, presumably because the
developers are trying to simplify the range of
platforms that they support, while more and more (Asha-friendly) Java applications are appearing in
the lists for Symbian too. Most of us have experienced download errors
from the Store this year, often repeatedly, plus
strange search results at times (my favourite is to
search for "cutetube" and have the Store return
"Not found: did you mean 'cutetube'", etc!) I
doubt that the Store will suddenly disappear in terms of server functions - after all, the Store still
works fine for old S60 3rd Edition handsets, even five years after the phones appeared. What I
do expect to see is a gradual thinning of decent
commercial applications and more developers
offering install files on their own sites, either
instead of on the Store (as with Track@Way) or in addition to it. With Symbian being totally open in
terms of file system, it's actually very easy to
install applications from such sources and the
major hassle is perhaps for developers wanting to
monetise their apps, since they'll have to rely on
payment systems on their own sites. As more and more developers go down this route, hopefully
AAS and other curated lists will play a part in linking Symbian users to the best applications
and games out there. Although we don't expect any significant new
firmware updates to roll out of Nokia for any
Symbian hardware from this point on, it should
be noted that, for the technically minded, there
are options (e.g. here) for those wanting to try out custom firmwares, which continue to improve
and impress. Sales and new device launches are, of course,
irrelevant, since the Nokia 808, from over a year
ago now, was declared to be the last Symbian-
powered device and, we believe, the last Symbian
devices to be made have also been shipped.
Trying to buy a brand new Symbian smartphone from official channels is tricky now and most still
available are from resellers trying to clear stock.
(Happily, there's also the usual thriving second
hand market.) It's not clear what will happen to after-market
accessories, though supply of hardware that's
specific to Symbian (e.g. the OMTP multimedia headsets) is already low and (again) resellers clearing stock online are the best bet. If you have
been eyeing something up, grab it while you can? In summary, the current situation for current
Symbian smartphone owners and for developers
is unlikely to change much with Microsoft's buy
out of Nokia's phone business. The deal has
happened so late in Symbian's life that it's largely
irrelevant. Aspects which were already declining will continue to decline, etc. And aspects which
are currently self-sustaining will carry on being so. It should be emphasised, of course, that
smartphones, their OS and applications all have a
life beyond whats currently on sale in shops.
There are still around 100 million people in the world using Symbian smartphones on a daily
basis and All About Symbian will be here to bring news of applications, directories, custom
firmwares and anything else of interest. Posts
may not be as frequent as they were in 2010 and
2011, but we. Will. Be. Here.

Above all...... Though I use gionee elife e3, all this China smartphone companies are backwards.

Can you imagine 'cheap processors' that's why the change phone too dey cheap [/quote]



I don't think the processor is to blame for your so called ''cheap'' price; haven't you noticed all these ''Chinese'' phones use plastic,and plastic is way cheaper than aluminium or steel some others use.....

Guys,keep your ears to the ground,there are rumours of the Mini version of the E6 coming out,it's going to feature a 4.3'' screen....


Meanwhile,if Gionee is able to pull this stunt;they'll be the first Mediatek using company that released a phone as well as the Mini version.

and E5 gets a 16,856... gionee is a beast.. [/quote]



Wow harry,there's a revolution going on in the phone industry,I wonder if Samsung will be top Android by 2020.......(imagine what the AnTuTu benchmark score of the E6 will be)

This phone is a must-buy mid-range phone;check out these scores:


SAMSUNG GALAXY S4,the highest benchmarking phone at 27,497 on AnTuTu

HTC One gets a 12,489

This phone (Gionee Elife E3) gets a 13,897

I'm thinking of getting a gionee e3....what colour should I go for? [/quote]






Pink....

By the way,Real Football 2014,FIFA 2014 and Danger Dash are all out......

not at all...

unless u want to purposely scratch ur phone... with a hard element...

it isnt prone to scratch[/quote]




Harry,you use the E5,we're talking E3,no diss intended........

Godvilla,please I think I know what the dude was asking,he didn't mean to ask if the phone falls from 2ft it wouldn't break,he's asking if the phone is prone to scratching......

Happy New Month,It's a month of divine provisions......

wont d guy charge more to send it down to Enugu?[/quote]



He'll charge you more,depending on the courier service used,this is his number you can chat on what's app 08034795720

Chineke! Only God knws hw much it wud be to send it down to Enugu. Which online store did you use?[/quote]



Please don't waste that much money ordering,you can get your Gionee from Elijahdre.....

d phone has a 2gb internal rom for installing applications.. and 3gb for system files... then 11gb free for any stuff u wanna put into ur phone[/quote]

Your E5 or the E3?

Just wanted to correct something I saw on page 9,please 16GB Rom is not the same as 16GB Internal Storage. I mean ROM is Read Only Memory,the other 16GB internal storage,is a storage part you can touch,by putting files on them,deleting the files if you no longer need them.........

Harry,please na,what do you stand to gain if you hint about the MTN ish and nobody gains from it......

do the airtel 4gb na. Dats wat am rocking[/quote]



With droidvpn......? Not cool compared to UNLIMITED.....

ABEG BRODAS.. I NO SAY MAKE ANYBODY DROP NUMBER OR GMAIL OR ANYTHING OOO...

PLS.....



Harry,pls na,seriously NEED this

Is black berry a phone or a fruit? [color=#006600][/color]


hahahahahaa,what a question...

FYI i use an e5 not an e3... .. and yea, tht would be a first indeed ...


dis is a selfie with my front camera....


Please Harry,I NEED the MTN tweak too,please add this number on what's app,07065464779......seriously waiting for you.