What is Happening to Nokia?
Opinion September 15th. 2007, 5:13pm
I just heard that Nokia Beta Labs launched NSeries PC Suite 2.0 yesterday. I haven’t had a chance to install it because the size is huge (350 MB). Then I heard three mobile gurus saying negative about this product.
Firstly, Ricky Caden from Symbian Guru said:
The problem seems to be stability. Personally, I’ve never really had an issue with PC Suite. However, I’ve heard NUMEROUS people on forums and over IM say that they despise PC Suite, that it crashes on them constantly or they can’t get it to connect.
Then, Stefan Constantinescu from IntoMobile second his opinion:
Overall I’m disappointed. Ricky Cadden from Symbian-Guru said it best: “Nokia sucks at desktop apps.” He is right, they are absolutely horrid. It is remarkable how many Nokia employees who I will not mention by name say: “The PC suite is shit.” or “I hate the PC Suite.”
Finally, Steve Litchfield from AllAboutSymbian.com:
Whoever chose .NET to base the new PC Suite on should be taken out and chucked into the nearest lake. Not everyone has dual core multimedia monster desktops, guys.
If three mobile gurus had the same opinion; there must be something wrong with the new PC Suite. Not to mention Nokia Download! for PC that had suffer similar criticism from many reviewers.
What’s happening to Nokia? This is really a big problem. Shall we send email to Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo?
Update (16-Sep-2007): I just installed NSeries PC Suite 2.0 today. Unfortunately, I have to agree with them. I have captured a screenshot of my Task Manager. As you can see here, the user interface of NSeries PC Suite 2.0 requires about 64 MB of memory and utilizes 12% CPU of my computer. Finally, I decided to uninstall NSeries PC Suite 2.0. It is still unusable at this point.
Update (17-Sep-2007): After listening to many bloggers around the world, Nokia Beta Labs finally remove NSeries PC Suite 2.0 from the time being. Well done Tommi!!! Make the product works first and then launch it to the public.
(Picture is courtesy of morgueFile.)
5 Responses to “What is Happening to Nokia?”
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September 16th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I don’t think .NET is a huge platform. .NET is our future so we have to use it and have luck. The same is about memory requirements, my firefox occupies more than 50 Mb of physical memory with 5 and more opened tabs. So waiting for optimized release of this PC Suite. The currently real problem is the only size of distributive which includes .NET framework.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:31 am
@Samokhin: I didn\’t know that .NET was our future. Nor do I yet.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:47 am
I don’t really mind downloading 100+ MB .NET framework. What I don’t like is the fact that the UI eats ~10% of my CPU power. My computer just runs like a turtle when I open PC Suite’s UI.
September 26th, 2007 at 4:05 am
According to one of the other Nokia blogs, this has now been withdrawn for more work.
http://blogs.s60.com/tommi/2007/09/time_out_for_nseries_pc_suite.html
October 16th, 2007 at 2:16 am
[…] Oh boy. Seems that we released Nokia Nseries PC Suite 2.0 for public beta testing too early in the development. The initial feedback was quite devastating: for highlights, see comments at my blog, All About Symbian, Symbian Guru, IntoMobile, and Antony’s Mobile Blog. […]