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I’m interested in the E90, but there seems to be some problems with it. The production is even said to be stopped, but there’s no confirmation and no communication at all from nokia, apart from deleting some lengthy threads on the forum.

If there’s no communication on a current situation (production problems) I suppose there won’t be any communication about software updates. This is confirmed by this post in which an update for the E65 is announced, but the poster hasn’t event a slight idea of what it will bring!

If I get a E90, I’d be interested to develop for it. But coming from Free and Open Source software, I’m not sure I’ll get used to this secret kept around Nokia development. I don’t request to go open source, but take a look at QNX: they’re going more transparent!

It’s funny how companies in communication products have the most difficulties to communicate with their customers…

Raph

Yup, stong words. But I don’t understand the pupose of Nokia Beta Labs from that.

Here’s what I’m trying to achieve:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/mantras_versus_.html

S60 platform is constantly improving, and Nokia R&D teams - often targeting to future devices - tend to push the limits and use the latest platform functionality. Therefore, in Nokia Beta Labs:
- compatibility tables are sometimes complicated
- even the R&D team might not be 100% sure about the compatibility
- we may need to release separate versions for certain devices

Hopefully this experience also gets fed back to the S60 core R&D team, because it may be the closest to “dogfooding” Nokia’s own platform - this exactly mirrors the experience of developers out there, so this would also be a great way for collecting feedback on the developer experience.

As an example, if Beta Labs R&D can’t be sure about compatibility of certain features, doesn’t that say something about the level of documentation?

As regards, apps that change name - that’s no excuse to remove the old URL! By all means add a new URL, but keep the old one and make it redirect to the new page (see http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback ).

Sorry for getting bogged down in technical details btw - it’s just the web-design geek in me coming out! ;-D

As for the Gravatars - I agree it’s gimmicky, but it’s trivial to add and can be fun.

and of course don’t write this from scratch please. just use an off the shelf open source system like Wordpress or Drupal or Joomla or whatever

Thanks for taking the time to take feedback and respond to it!

…Roland

And gravatars seem useless