Nokia Asha 311 to get Nimbuzz free messaging Preloaded in India
Apparently, Nimbuzz is to come pre-installed in Nokia Asha 311 handsets in India.
Nimbuzz is that all in one messenger and phone app, which about two weeks ago reached 100 million users.
Source: TimesOfIndia
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I was using Nimbuzz on my old n81,it was a great application..
It’s coming per-installed on 110 and 112 along with eBuddy and Facebook too.
Off-topic, but 311 is so cute though. A very nice looking device in that color.
Too bad the entire platform will have been completely out-competed within about 2yrs.
The sad thing is management knows that…
They’re planning to gradually slot WP/Android or both there (likely WP only) instead of Meltemi.
Maybe so, maybe so – although I think two years is probably too pessimistic for the complete disappearance of Series 40 types of devices. But sure, smartphones are going lower and lower. It is oft-forgotten fact that half of the Burning Platforms memo was about this change in the industry (people often remember just the Symbian part).
Why is it sad the management knows this? Isn’t it good that they get the importance of (competing with) cheap Android? Sure, us old Maemo fans would have like to have seen Meltemi, but other than that it is good they are taking steps to be competitive. Time will tell if those are productive steps.
It’s sad because they sold out, they could’ve done it with Meltemi in that time-frame, without question.
They’ve come under pressure to free up that spot for WP, hence why they’ve stuck with only S40, which ultimately needs to make way for something, that something can now only be WP.
Money too tight? Okay open the code quite a bit more, allow others to use meltemi & contribute free of charge, allowing you to significantly downsize the team, there’s no question its very well advanced anyway*, so a small time will easily finish it off & refine it going forward.
If the “ecosystem” picks up you can always fork the code, add a few new proprietary goodies, & license again for a modest amt.
I would go into much more detail, but I dont have time to type lengthy diatribes like you unfortunately :-/
*countless peeps that were involved have confirmed that now.
time = team
Personally I would have loved to see Meltemi and it *is* sad we didn’t get that chance.
I doubt binning Meltemi had anything to do with Windows Phone, pressure or even money. But everything to do with their belief they couldn’t build an ecosystem around it fast enough for Meltemi to matter. One has to admit, Meltemi was always a bit of an odd-ball in the new strategy, between the Java Series 40 and Windows Phone. Meltemi made more sense under the old strategy.
Still, I agree they could have finished it and it might have had a place in the market. That it didn’t come, indeed, that is sad.
They could easily have built an ecosystem, they had more than enough time before S40 started to falter.
And they could’ve ramped up to that rather lightly too, so as not to put pressure on their tight funds.
(which may be an issue for approx. the next 3-6 quarters)
Especially using the model & tie-ups/collaboration I “briefly” touched on…
The only reason they didn’t, is that their WP strategy at the top to upper-mid, has had a political effect on what they do to their bottom to lower-mid.
Which is indeed sad……
This is factually incorrect. You can’t just flip the open-source switch on a platform. Ever wonder why HP announced plans to open-source webOS in December and 9 months later it still isn’t done?
You have to go in and strip out code that you either don’t want to share or cannot share. Once you open-source the code, you can’t claim ownership over it anymore.
So you lose:
-UI and design
-proprietary hardware drivers
-the most innovative patented bits of the code (such as around power management).
Not only does that take a lot of desirability away, it also takes time to go through the millions of lines of code, strip the un-openable stuff out, and provide for rough replacements.
If Nokia just “opened up” Meltemi, it wouldn’t create magic open Meltemi, it would create a bunch of enhancements for Android. Meltemi would be picked over like a carcass by vultures.
I wasn’t suggesting opening it in a vacuum, that would be dumb…
You’d of course have several keen parties ready to make devices, use, & contribute etc.
You’d just have to get the balance right WRT what to open & what not.
And F/OSS goes both ways, plenty of goodies Android contributes to upstream which it’d benefit from.
Thank for an insightful comment.
Was, afaik, a major reason also for why the Symbian Foundation experiment failed.
So when Symbian was open sourced, does that mean Android could have taken more advantage of it? Is it not too different? (Sorry, I obviously know nothing about this kind of stuff)
Entirely different architecture, even Meltemi would be so different that you wouldn’t see straight lifts, or vice-versa.
Except you’re simplifying what I was saying.
I’m well aware that it’s quite nuanced…
Doesn’t change the fact that it’s entirely do-able.
And you seem to be misleadingly suggesting that taking that approach would somehow stall existing progress.
That’s factually incorrect….
Citing WebOS is a red-herring because the current initiative is to open it FAR MORE than it was.
I never suggested they open Meltemi in the same kind of wholesale manner…
What they’re attempting with WebOS is only rivalled by Vanilla MeeGo, except they’re trying to do it all back to front, hence the messiness.
Does Asha 311 support Nimbuzz to Nimbuzz calling