BBC starts to catch up

[Guest paddy_mcnulty]

Don't know if this is the right the place but it seems the BBCi is catching up. Although they say Symbian will be dominant over the next five years...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3602718.stm

Shame threre was no link to MoDaCo or Coolsmartphones.com

[Guest TANKERx]

Interesting that Microsoft is in second place, I thought they'd be lower.

Something that Microsoft has to think about is this; ANybody who is going to buy a Microsoft Smartphone is actually looking for a Smartphone whereas many people who have a Symbian phone don't know that they have a Smartphone, they just want something that can make calls and the Symbian phones look (and indeed are) easy to use.

A mate of mine bought a Symbian smartphone thinking it was just a pretty phone, but once I showed him what it could do, he was amazed that something which he got for free could do so much (you all know what I mean; watch videos, listen to MP3, browse the web etc - stuff we take for granted).

Maybe Microsoft should try and stop bragging their phones up for their it-can-do-this features and just say "look, it's a phone and you can make calls with it" which, even today, is what most people want.

[Guest AngelOfRage]

Maybe Microsoft should try and stop bragging their phones up for their it-can-do-this features and just say "look, it's a phone and you can make calls with it"

i can see that advertising now... :roll:

[Guest Pigo]

I disagree heavily!

in order to make it more profitable the manufacturers have to make the phones smaller. as this is the number 1 reason for people not to get a smartphone. it's huge compared to the cheapest phones.

only small hope is the c500. it's ugly though.... so I'm still wondering what that handset will do to the sales of smartphone handsets.

I want a smartphone but I'm so bothered by the size of these giants that I was even considering going back to normal phones (I know I know... shame on me). they should stop adding more or bigger funtions and concentrate on decreasing the size.

Pigo

[Guest AngelOfRage]

i can understand that people want smaller smartphones but if they cant be a half way point they have to go two ways. smaller, less featured phones like say the C500 (im not saying the C500 is lacking features, im just saying that a smaller phone like the C500 using previous features, ie very similer to the E200) and then concentrate on putting more features into a larger phone.

if they cant fit all the features into the smaller phones, they will need to make a two model line.

[Guest Pinga]

I think the biggest issue will be how user friendly the phones are. Mobiles running Microsoft demands some computer knowlege to really enjoy. And that is a market that must not be ignored, but they should be easy to use for the average Joe to. When Microsoft can produce an OS that is so reliable and easy to use that the average joe feel's it's as trustworthy as he's old simple Nokia(in other words- NO BUGS!!) , and people with knowlege on how to really use all the options of the phone feels they got enough to keep them occupied, and it runs smoothly during all of it's funcions. Hell, it's a winner! But now im probably just stating the obvious :wink:

I dont think battery life and size will be much of an issue in the future. They have already started making screen's that are thinner, better and require less power. At the same time, batteries that can last for 2 week's at the time in phones that requires alot of power, are already planned to be produced in South Korea next year. (if the report's are correct, very sorry I cant put up a link at the moment, but this technology is not far away)

[Guest RussellH]

They also need to make sure the phones actually do everything they say they can do. It seems the norm for a Microsoft smartphone to get pre-publicised as doing this, that and the other, then shortly after release comes the realisation that something really important doesn't work as it should.