Riiiiiiiight…

Head. Wall.

The point is, and I don't see how you can deny it, for the forseeable future there will be hundreds of millions of S60, or S60-compatible phones (no way will any future merger ditch S60 compatibility given the current user base and technology investment). Compared with the low double digit millions of iPhones. I know which is the more important software platform by far

What I am assuming is, that for now, most of these S60 owners do not really care that it's S60 phone. What they care is that it is Nokia and it has cool features. And will make their next purchasing decision based on that.

BTW, I also heard that S60 is being merged into next Symbian Foundation OS release and will be phased out as a brand. If this is true, there won't be the any S60 phone to buy in the next few years

So you’re assuming all those owners of S60 FP1, 2 and 3 will definitely not replace them with handsets running a later S60 release, that all or most will go to a completely different OS from other manufacturers? Hmmmm…..interesting theory…. (!?!??)

> The iPhone *does* offer a better UI experience than *anything* S60 have ever done.

I wouldn’t go that far, but I’d agree with your general gist, as regards the system UI. My point is *THE APP*. It’s easily up to iPhone UI standards, even over GPRS. Thus showing it can be done on S60. Thus showing others can do it too, with decent design and engineering. Thus showing there’s no excuse for Nokia not to be able to do it on the system UI.

Yes, on the 5800. As this site you write for just demonstrated. In the video. Above.

Though the argument about S60 being deployed on hundreds of millions devices is a dud. Nobody'll be using S60 FP1,2,3 phones in 3 years so there goes all these 100ds of millions… And this was FP5…

There's a joke, that probably sounds much better in Russian, but I'try to translate it:

There are two bulls standing on the hill. A young and eager one and the old and experienced. And there's a heard of cows at the bottom.

The young one can not stand still, is jumping around and nudging the old one:

“C'mon pops! There's a whole heard of gals down there. Move it! What a chance! Did you see that one on the right!! WOW!! I Want here! NO, look at that one, the third on from the left! What a butt! Ooooh I want her!!!! NO, NO, NO, THAT one in the middle!!!! The one I dream about!! C'mon pops! We are wasting our time! We'll miss our chance if we won't start moving right now!!!”

The old bull watches the youngster, smiles and says:

“Relax son. Breath deaply. RELAX,I tell you!… Now. We will just stay still for a while. Then we'll just calmly start walking down the hill. Easily get down there, next to them …..

AND THEN WE”LL F&^%&N GONNA HAVE THE WHOLE HEARD TO OURSELVES!!!!!!! “

Well, ever since iPhone was announced, Samsung (F490, anyone?), LG and many others remind the of that young bull. And Nokia…