US blog says Nokia N9 is doomed to fail at the start of launch

Nokia N9 Mobile phone lead: U.S. Science and Technology blog Ars Technica Friday, Nokia unveiled a smartphone N9 using Meego systems this week.　　Although the handset is very good in many ways, but due to the chaos of Nokia platform strategy, N9 was doomed to fail at the beginning of the launch. The following is the full text of the article: excellent hardware and software Nokia this week announced the launch of the long-awaited N9 smartphone. N9 's design is excellent, with a sophisticated touch user interface, powerful software, and open source features.　　N9 's previous generation of products N900 developer-centric, and N9 provides an experience for mainstream users on this basis. The finger-touch interface drives the development of modern smartphones, and N9 is the first modern smartphone to be launched by Nokia. Although this is technically a great achievement, it cannot be considered Nokia's success.　　The N9 has been postponed for a year, and Nokia has announced it has abandoned its Meego platform to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 system. The N9 uses the Texas instrument's 1GHz OMAP cortex A8 processor, 1GB RAM, and a 3.9-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, and integrates 8 million-like Sokarzei lenses. N9 's hardware is not industry-leading, but it is still respectable, especially given that most of the iphone's software is developed by Nokia itself.　　The phone's engineering level is also high, using a curved glass screen and polycarbonate shell material. There are no buttons on the front of the N9, because the human-computer interaction mode of the mobile software is entirely based on gestures. The N9 user interface features an open source QT development package that brings a whole new look and feel. In addition to the circular icon, the N9 user interface is completely different from the Symbian and Maemo systems. Nokia calls this brand new user experience "swipe" to emphasize N9 's sweeping hands.　　This is very new to the user. Hybrid operating system N9 software configuration is a bit confusing to the outside world. Nokia's official marketing and PR materials show that N9 adopted the Meego 1.2 system. In fact, however, N9 a large part of the code for the Maemo 6 system.　　Nokia had previously announced that it had abandoned Maemo and turned to the Meego system. It is not accurate to call a mobile phone with a large number of Maemo system codes Meego, but this hybrid operating system is fully compatible with the Meego 2.1 application Interface (API). This means that the differences between systems are not particularly noticeable to users and developers.　　If you look at Nokia's Meego strategy, you can find this hybrid operating system in line with Nokia's road map released earlier this year. Another thing that confuses outsiders is the relationship between N9 and a prototype of Nokia's namesake, which was exposed last year. The previously exposed N9 prototype integrated the sideslip keypad, which was expected to be released in the first quarter of 2011. This designInside Nokia, known as n9-00, has now been abandoned. With Nokia beginning to develop a new generation of n9-01, code-named Lankku Keyboard design, the release date of the related products has been delayed. N9-01 is likely to be the basis of the N9 that Nokia officially publishes.　　According to the Technology blog addiction technology to obtain some photos, a variant of N9 N950 will use the original sideslip keyboard design, but N950 will only be provided to specific third-party developers. Doomed to failure however, although N9 added a lot of new elements, the phone did not have a chance to succeed. Because of the chaos of Nokia's platform strategy and the absence of a long-term plan for Meego, N9 will be lost at the starting line. The phone is similar to the Titanic: it is destined to sink on maiden voyage despite its high quality engineering and luxurious craftsmanship.　　In Nokia's future product plan, Meego's positioning is so vague that it will disappoint third party developers and lead to N9 's failure. Some in the industry questioned the rumours that Nokia would take full advantage of the Windows Phone 7 system, as Meego has offered Nokia a platform to bring competitiveness.　　At the time, Nokia had actually staked the future on Meego, so any change would be a suicidal act. When the Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, released the famous "Platform has been on fire" memo, the industry's suggestion is that Nokia Elop to Meego, not to be interfered by other operating systems. But Elop has different ideas.　　He believes the release of Meego will take too long, and accepting Windows Phone 7 can help Nokia launch modern smartphones faster. In fact, however, Nokia first released products using the Meego system. This means that Elop has misjudged Meego.　　However, Nokia is still planning to launch the Windows Phone 7 mobile phone within this year, so Elop's view of Windows Phone 7 is no problem. Elop may think that in the long run, the maintenance and consolidation of Meego systems poses challenges that the current Nokia cannot afford. Choosing Windows Phone 7 means Nokia can avoid a series of difficulties in platform development. However, this will lead Nokia to become a pure hardware manufacturer.　　After choosing Windows Phone 7, Nokia will abandon its own platform and its control of ecosystems. Hard to attract users and developers Elop has said on several occasions that while Nokia will reduce investment, Meego will remain a research platform for Nokia's future innovations. It is not yet clear what Nokia's plan means, but it is clear that after Nokia turned to Windows Phone 7, Meego's battle with NokiaSlightly less relevant. If Nokia does not make it clear that it will provide support for the Meego platform and for consumers who buy N9, it is hard to imagine that Meego can attract a large number of users.　　If Nokia's approach to the Meego platform is not serious, then Meego will be hard to compete, especially in third-party applications. The Meego system has been supported by a large number of third-party developers, and companies such as Rovio and Qik have plans to launch applications via QT on Nokia Meego handsets.　　Nokia's new platform strategy has abandoned these developers, leaving developers less likely to continue to support Nokia's products. If Nokia ported the QT Development Kit to Windows Phone 7, it means developers will be able to develop apps for Nokia's 3 main operating systems.　　However, this will not happen because Elop has denied that Nokia will enable QT on Windows Phone 7. Nokia is ambivalent about QT's attitude on Windows Phone 7 platforms. At N9 's press conference, Nokia described QT as a key part of future mobile development.　　However, if QT does not support Windows Phone 7, it is hard to imagine why Qt became part of Nokia's mobile strategy. Nokia may target QT to Symbian users, but because Symbian will be out of the market in 2014, it won't succeed. It is also unclear whether QT 5, which will be released in 2012, also supports Symbian.　　Qt is still one of the best tools for cross-platform development, but QT is not officially supported by any of the mainstream mobile operating systems. Nokia's current position is very much like the two gods in Roman mythology. Nokia is reluctant to Meego, on the other hand resolutely accept Windows Phone 7. The lack of support for this platform strategy has led to confusion in development tools and platforms and a loss of confidence in Nokia's future plans. The problem has been N9: It's an attractive product, but it doesn't see any prospect. (D-Gold)