The deal breaker, or why I won't upgrade to Nokia ...

Why can't Nokia come up with a really competitive budget smartphone offering? Why can't it give as an all-around decent phone like it used to do in the good old dates?
For the last 2 years, I've been using Nokia 5530. It was a nice budget offering for its time, but the experience was hindered by an abysmally slow CPU and low amount of RAM (which might have been acceptable for a entry-level smartphone in 2009, but to put exactly the same hardware to models 5800 and C6-00 was a crime; it basically killed otherwise capable smartphones). The software also wasn't up-to-par, with a totally tragic attempt at creating a web browser, (somehow improved as of now, but it still can't overcome the hardware limitations, thankfully Opera manages to save the day) obstacles to install new apps (I finally figured out how to sign them myself, but why was Nokia forcing me to do that, making my life harder for apparently no purpose?) and certainly not well thought-out UI.
Now it comes the time for upgrade and it seems Nokia has finally learned its lesson. New budget Nokia 500 runs at whooping 1 GHz, has a vastly improved UI, comes with a GPS with free maps, has a new, significantly better screen and is finally the Nokia phone we've been waiting for for a long, long time...NOT
Because, as it is customary with Nokia lately, someone had to break it.
For quite a few years Nokia phones have been famous for their excellent cameras, so on e would assume e that at least THIS won't ever be a problem. Well, one would assume wrong as Nokia 500 totally neglects this feature. Don't get me wrong, it's a budget offering and I'm not assuming I'd get a N8 style hardware, but even my entry level 5530 more than 2 years ago had an autofocus with a LED flash. The 500 is unmistakably targeted at value conscious high school and college students yet it doesn't have this crucial feature of being able o take a quick photo of their notes, a page in a book or some printed announcement. It's the year 2011 for God's sake, autofocus is not a premium feature, it's a MUST for any (semi-)decent phone. Ho could anyone overlook it?
Goodbye Nokia, welcome Android.

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