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By: What your smartphone says about you | Which? Tech Daily

What your smartphone says about you | Which? Tech Daily — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:33:25 +0000

[...] the Symbian operating system may be be a bit clunky and the Ovi Store a bit barren, but you’ve been using it so long that it doesn’t matter. What others perceive as bugs, you [...]

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What your smartphone says about you | Mobile phones — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:30:33 +0000

[...] the Symbian operating system may be be a bit clunky and the Ovi Store a bit barren, but you’ve been using it so long that it doesn’t matter. What others perceive as bugs, you [...]

By: Ktar

Ktar — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:08:24 +0000

Hi Jeff,
I like what you wrote about the Milestone phone. Maybe I’m a bit biased because I did some work for the Telus HSPA network recently. My wife decided to change her phone and 90% of people recommended the iPhone, however, she is a bit rebellious at times and willing to go against the tide when she feels like it. So she decided to go with the Motorola Milestone. All that you wrote above matches our experience with the phone as well. I’m still trying to figure out if there is a downloadable application for this phone that would clearly let you prioritize the networks that the phone can access the Internet with (e.g. Wi-Fi, HSPA and so on).
I went through the menu and yes, you can enable or disable the Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and HSPA all together, but I couldn’t find anything that can assure, that if the phone can log into Wi-Fi, the HSPA is disabled and, if the phone is outside Wi-Fi coverage, it will enable the connection to HSPA. As well, there should be something on the menu that will allow the user to turn On or Off the HSPA connectivity for data transfer while the phone voice features are still On. Maybe there are, but I couldn’t find them myself yet.
Or maybe, a downloadable application cannot do all of these, and we may need to wait for a new software version that Motorola may release in the future for the Milestone.

Your blog was a good read.

Regards,

By: Gaurav Kheterpal

Gaurav Kheterpal — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:09:01 +0000

@paul – Thanks for pointing that out. I read it on the Ovi Publish – Developer Terms and Conditions page as well. Rules 4.3 and 4.3.2 have different stories to tell. That’s the reason, I mentioned that it’s not a mere coincidence that Nokia claims to offer 70% rev share to developers. If Nokia were to mention 50% rev share, it would’nt be enticing enough for new developers anyway, given that Google & Apple offer a 70% share.

And I’m pretty sure most developers get to know the actual revenue share when they receive their first cheque from the Ovi Store:)

By: paul

paul — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:04:11 +0000

Mistake “it’s too good to be a coincidence that both Nokia and Apple offer a 70% revenue share to developers.”

Ovi does not offer 70% revenue share. Well in theory it does but in reality it doesn’t. The consensus amoung developers is that they receive between 30-50%. Network Operators get between 40% and 50% when operator billing is used. Nokia takes 30% of the remainder.
This is a big reason why few developers are supporting Nokia in comparison to Googles Android. Both Apple and Google offer 70%.