So the Nokia N8 has finally been announced and Safaricom were quick to advertise it in their usual style of full page ads with a price tag of 40000 bundled with 300mb of data which is quite fair and am sure will be a hit for a few months until people finally realise how Nokia completely missed out one vital component crucial to calling a phone a smartphone.One of the mistakes Nokia made in the past is not pushing for app development and now they are struggling to get attention from African developers who are more interested in app development for Apple and Android and I would not blame them.Nokia never fail when it comes to producing a phone with excellent hardware but they always fail on the software.At this junction a Nokia phone never crosses my mind when am thinking of buying a phone.The symbian platform despite being one of the oldest and most used mobile platforms still doesn't bring much to the table.The Ovi Store is just filled with apps that feel clumsy and rushed like they were made just to fill the store with apps so it doesn't look empty.In all honesty Nokia should just dump the symbian platform and go with Android.Im talking from an experience stand point since I recently bought a second hand Iphone 2G and on some days I don't switch on my computer cause I handle everything from there.Another silly thing Nokia are doing is saying they are focused on the African market and yet Ovi Maps doesn't even have the Kenya map.The Iphone would have been more popular if it was being sold by a more serious network such as safaricom,you may hate them for being ridiculously expensive but they know how to do things right.Orange are just wasting the Iphone4,you cannot sell a device that is 80,000 ksh factory unlocked for 60,000 ksh with a 2 year contract of 5,000 ksh per month to then have it be used on an EDGE network.Using an orange locked Iphone is just an embarrasment.You suck Orange Kenya
In other news Sony just launched their line of 3DTV products in Kenya and I was thinking to myself,who is really going to use this,we still even haven't migrated to HDTV yet
