It was just a normal day of reading tech news and reviews. Nokia just announced the latest to their mobile phone line, the Meego-powered N9. It was gorgeous and so I needed to learn more about it. Found the spec sheet and it was on the verge of perfection. But the urge didn't started there, it began after reading a review of their business-centric E7 (E7-00).
One review after the other, the phone just gets more and more enticing to me. It's the sliding-tilt that caught my eye at first, it looks really great and sounds sturdy from the videos I had watched. My brother used to have an E-series phone, and I was amazed with the build quality of it and from what people are saying around, E7 is a design and engineering feat.
Then it was the screen. Looks so vibrant and with Nokia's CBD, it even surpassed some of Samsungs' on comparison. Then the USB-on-the-go. Then the HDMI out. I could go on but I'll stop.
And then it was the amazing quality of the camera and the videos it could capture. I love taking photos occasionally but I am more into capturing moving pictures. Cameras on phones is the one that least interests me because I already have an existing gear so the need for a good shooter on a phone seems not that significant. But then I saw samples of the HD videos that the E7 produced. I was shocked. I remember saying that how the heck that video came out from that phone that irked most of the reviewers because of Nokia's EDoFcamera? Yes, the camera couldn't take a decent macro photo but with that quality on video, I say who cares? And on that moment, I fell
For a second, I did thought that my dream phone has one major flaw, it does not have Android on it. I've been following Android since Froyo came out and I had always thought that I'd have a Droid next for my phone. It was the apps that's the most enticing. It is the apps that drive people to a specific platform. And after reading a few articles about the "supposedly" death of Symbian because of Elop and his nudge on WP7, I did thought at first that I wish E7 has Android instead and I will miss Symbian when it "dies".
Trying to justify my recent change of the dream phone, I made a mental list. What are the apps that I need on my phone? But then, I have a phone now, the old Nokia 5800XM, and all the apps I need are all in there already. Why find it on a different platform when they are already there, right? The vastness of options was the one that nudged me into Android-ism before but suddenly it isn't that enticing anymore. And to think that I have all that I need on a Symbian^1 phone.
And so it was settled, and with this current obsession, seems like it's etched in stone, that my dream phone is the E7. And you know that feeling of not having what you needed (or wanted), I got it bad, really bad.
And so I did what is most probably the most "deteriorating" thing to do, I looked into Nokia, Symbian and even on Qt even more.
Suddenly, I wanted to make themes for Anna. So I downloaded Carbide.ui. While downloading, I wondered more. Ended up in Nokia's Design & User Experience Development Library. Unaware of everything, I finished reading the whole section. Wanting more, I found myself reading on the Qt section with all the intention of learning it. I even thought that maybe, if more people would make apps for Nokia then Symbian won't fade at all. That I, will be that one guy that would add to the huge pool of Nokia/Symbian loyalists. And I'm pretty sure that I am on the verge of delusion at that point. lol
Before I proceed, and maybe you have forgotten, that with all those things above, I don't even own a Symbian^3 phone and I am pretty sure it would take me about a year to save up and buy one or half a year for a pre-owned unit. But I kept the fire burning sort of speak, putting more wood in it to make it warmer and brighter.
So I needed a Twitter account and a blog to vent out this obsession, and now I have both (@annaandbeyond). Then I said I will make themes and share them on sites and forums at first. Then once I got the hang of it, maybe make premium ones and sell them. There are millions of people out there paying for themes and I need maybe 600 of them to buy one and help me buy my dream phone. Then the idea of monetizing an unknown recently launched all things Nokia/Symbian blog (this blog) also came. See, I told you I got it this bad.
I'm still not sure where all of this would go to or end up. I'll continue this as long as I feel I need to (to avoid going crazy lol).
I really genuinely feel that I want to be a Symbian enthusiast or maybe an advocate sort of speak, I mean making something for a thing I don't have should say a lot, right? It's that feeling that letting others know that just because people are flocking into one side, does not mean the less flocked one is bad, it means that it needs more passionate folks to continue to make it grow.
Holy crap, I think I just went a little envangelist-y right there. OK, I'm ending this here, for now.
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