Launching of a new communicator.

Question

Hi All,
With all these new phones being introduced by nokia,is it true that communicator will never come to the level of a 3G phone???????The new communicator should have a more powerful camera and all the features of a 3G phone as using a smaller phone after the communicator is unthinkable but,going by the features included in the new phones one gets a feeling that "Communicator" might take a back seat.IS NOKIA GOING TO LAUNCH A 9500 COMMUNICATOR SOON?IF YES THEN WHEN?

Answer 1

21-Aug-2006
08:42 AM
rufao wrote:
arabian, seraphim is trying to say that a series 60 device is not just defined by its software but also its hardware.
a series 80 device needs a keyboard with a joypad and four soft option keys. it also needs a large screen.
if the next communicator were to be based on s60, we woul not be garaunteed a qwerty keyboard, large screen or the same amount of soft option buttons. so it wouldnt be as user friendly...
i do not want to be restricted to the s60 interface.
The S60 3rd Edition does already support scalable user interfaces.
This most likely means we are going to see an S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (or 3) with the extra functionality required by communicator users.
The new Communicator will surely be an UMTS phone and I'd expect other changes as well. But only time will tell.
Who told you that the next Communicator will have no keyboard?
S60 3rd Edition platform supports many different screen sizes and many different input methods, including a full QWERTY keyboard. It's small in E70 but can be shaped/sized differently - the size and shape of a keyboard doesn't depend on the operating system.
The reason to go with just one platform has to do with development costs and support. The S60 platform does not offer anything that the S80 does not, except for more third-party applications. But the S60 platform will have to be extended a lot to incorporate the features of the S80 platform.
S60 3rd Edition is based on the newest Symbian OS versions. And this means new security system, faster and less resource hungry code thanks to new compiler generating new binary format, new kernel, support for new more powerful ARM processors (like the OMAP2420 running at 330 MHz and including hardware 2D/3D graphics accelerator, support for 3-4 MPix camera, TV out etc. used in Nokia N93) and many other things. The current S80 hardware and software is VERY outdated compared to the latest S60 models like N93 or E70.
I wouldn't be surprised if we are going to see the same communicator model in two variants: one with a camera and one without a camera. Nokia did that distinction for the Nokia E50 as this phone can contain a camera depending on the market.
I was told that new Communicators will be shown only in 2007.
Thank you,
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