Response from: John    (07/12/06 5:39pm)

Nokia promotes the pretty good phone with rather silly video ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e3150-rvs&search=nokia


They could have given that phone a little more support I feel.

Response from: Rico    (07/13/06 12:16am)

Haha, it really is silly, with its weird dancing. Who the heck dances with a speaker in his hand? :-o

Here in the Philippines, Nokia showed a better 3250 ad in theaters: A guy was simply listening to music, with tattoos on his arm growing and shrinking to the beat of the music. The tattoos disappear when a call comes in, the guy answers. It was simple, but it really made me wanna buy it. :-)

Response from: Erin    (07/15/06 10:26am)

Well the promotion of symbian by nokia is just in the interest of nokia itself. Agreed that symbian reduces the threat of viruses but what about third party applications???? The choice of the customer interms of software goes down drastically.

Response from: Rico    (07/16/06 3:37am)

I wouldn't blame Nokia for promoting Symbian. You can see from http://www.symbian.com/about/overview/ownership/ownership.html
that they own almost 50% of the OS.

Although I do agree that there should be more third-party applications. Perhaps they should encourage open-source development?