Nokia is in trouble with E90

Yes, my E90 is still in service. And I got really worried today when I noticed Gigantti's advertisement and there was no E90 no more. So, can we draw line from here to there and ask Nokia, how badly you screwed with E90 ?

I really hope that software team is working also with that crappy s60 version of E90, since if hardware flaws are corrected in some point - software is still problem.

Nokia, give us some light in here.

E90 still in service

My E90 has been away for one week now. It will be interesting to see are they able to fix it at all? I've been reading those forums and people are getting E90's back from service and there is hardly anything done with those. That is strange!

I've been using E61i for long now, it's great but has start to suffer some strange rebooting issue. I think it's because it's loaded with few hundred messages and memory is fading away.

Nuke that Windows

It makes me feel so good when I am able to nuke windows out of the computer. Today I did it already once and more to follow.

It's liberating when you don't have to count licenses and you are able to install as many times (and as often) as you like that (k)ubuntu. It takes 15 minutes now, six questions and proceed. You're free from your 'checking are you running genuine windows' world.

This week I try to find out good power workstations and couple of ML 370's for Linux world, HP is high and Fujitsu siemens is running closely.

E90 in service

I took my company E90 to service this week. Problem number one was microphone with that famous noise and two is of course keyboard markings on display. Guy told me that there is new thinner keyboard availabe as fix.

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Internet company - Nokia ?

This is fun, years ago when I did spoke in various forums about the MMS vs. emailing in those new Nokia smartphones - everyone smashed my thoughts. It was clearly visible that robust and mature internet protocols would make much more sense, than some 'I have to wear this suit' coder inventions for MMS.

It took around three years from Nokia, to build up this huge new strategy - where 'internet' is key for everything. Once, I have to admit that when microsoft was made to have same kind of turnover (with windows 95) to internet (from msn-network) - they did it fast.

Now there is new question: was that three years with MMS- and other operator preferred approaches too much ? If Nokia is seeing internet possibilities @2008, I think they are late, way too late. They kicked networks out to siemens and now they don't have to obey operators and if they want, there can really be open, free and usable innovations in field of internet communication.

But still. Are they able to do it? I think they should listen a lot those real engineers, who play with Linux and other standard implementations of future technology. From my point of view, they are still little off track. Licensing DRM stuff from microsoft is one example.

Be big and be a star, but know what is important.

Certificates and S60

Last week I learned a lot. I played with SSL certificates, made some CA functionality and I was able to get S60 devices working without security warnings with my servers. This is going to be fun.

Busines as usual

I've read ton's of postings in various forums, like Nokia support discussions and matkapuhelininfo.com (in Finnish) where peoples are becoming really frustrated regarding Nokia's ignorance of E90 problems.

Especially I am amazed the Nokia policy about Nokia support discussions, where users can guess between each others what might be the reason behind every problem they see. I think this kind of 'official support' powered by ordinary users is worthless. Strongly moderated support forum backed up with Nokia's official response would be the thing - not this.

My summary of E90 problems are still valid:

• Hardware issues regarding the keyboard markings on inner display. Nothing new in there, test market in Finland has proved the case.
• Curren E90's software (S60) is far from usable in communicator form.
• Hardware could support Maemo platform and thereafter you don't have to promote 'port your application to S60' (which is fading anyway) to developers.