Vlad's Tumbles

Unfortunately, an early prototype made its way to someone that wasn’t supposed to have it, and his early first impressions of the device and its software spread like wildfire. Buried deep down in the blogger’s salacious headlines about the software not being ready, was the most important point. This is a very early, pre-production prototype with dated software that is not yet ready. So the site’s comments that the software ‘felt premature’ is probably one of the more blindingly obvious things you will read this year.

Also interesting is this comment from Hary on the post linked above:

“This time, Eldar’s review has done more damage to Nokia.

Reason: People have had high expectations from Symbian^3 hoping it will be a turn around for Nokia.

Eldar’s review that Symbian^3 is disappointing, has spread like fire, especially US blogs like engadget, intomobile, gizmodo all having big negative headlines and leaving no stone unturned in their negative publicity directly or indirectly.

Infact, Reuters(a renowned site) is siting Eldar’s blog post as the 1st review of the device and mentions that it failed to impress. Not only Reuters, but other analysts too. (Here is the link to Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNLDE63Q14J20100427?rpc=44)

That is the reason why Nokia’s stock has taken a downfall in last 2 hrs on NYSE.

That is unacceptable. Nokia must enforce strict measures against the said blogger, you can’t let this happen with your every device. N900 was also leaked by same person and several other models too.

Also I believe that that preview of N8 was purposely distorted by the blogger. Reason: His review of X6(Which was also a prototype) was much different than N8. He kept on saying in his review on X6 that this is a prototype version, so he will pass his judgment after having the real release.

Nokia has to step up measures, OPENNESS cannot have unlimited freedom so that anyone can come and screw you and you say that we are OPEN, we don’t mind it.”

So.
That whole N8 preview over on Mobile-Review (if there isn’t a link here yet, blame Posterous’ bookmarklet - I will add the link after posting, be patient) thing.

Eldar was usually neutral toward Nokia, though his love of all things Samsung has always been quite obvious.

This, however, wasn’t a review. It wasn’t a preview. It wasn’t even a collection of personal thoughts. It was unfair.

And I suspect he shorted NOK right before hitting “Publish”. Or he should have. I know that’s what I would’ve done had I written such a wonderful piece, and had I had his ‘reach’.

As for the Gizmodos and Engadgets of the world… No one should care anymore. I think their biases are more than obvious by now. It’s their right to lick their iPhones at night. Get over it, and just unsubscribe. It’s healthier that way. Believe me.

As for the heart of the matter. Yes, Nokia have an amazingly bad track record at “firmware stablity upon launch” for their high-end stuff. And this hasn’t first happened with the N97. In fact, I think the N97’s shipping software was way more stable than the N95’s. But let’s not forget that this is the same company that had a senior executive admit those mistakes and say they won’t happen again. (link on the way…)

Also, on NokConv (the official Nokia blog), this has been stressed in an entire paragraph on their very “N8 launch” post.

So, while I understand the anger of those who purchased an N97 the day it came out, I think we need to all collectively chill.

And see.

I think they deserve that.

After all, they’ve just announced the world’s first phone that has a camera sensor bigger than a standalone camera (bigger is better, trust me).

As for Symbian^3, if you expected it to be Android, you’re an idiot. If you expected it to be the iPhone OS, you’re an idiot. Don’t like the UI? Fine. Go buy something else. Just stop saying incredibly stupid things about the world’s most mature smartphone OS. Because that makes you look stupid. Maybe not to the rest of your ignorant peers, but to sane people.

The mobile world is a competition, ok? If every OS was the same as the next, what the hell would the point for having more than one OS be?!

Symbian doesn’t fit you? Cool. Try something else. I’m not saying Android is shit every second blog post. And that’s the difference.