Comments on: Why Symbian Signed must die

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:08:24 +0000

I’ve just spent the better part of the last hour jumping through all the hoops required to get “rotate me” signed, and I’m still not there. This is a bad joke, right? Nokia felt some sort of weird guilt about their success and decided to screw themselves — is that what happened? Maybe a vestage of their Christian heritage? I’m just askin’.

Listen, if I’d known it was going to be all this, I’d never have purchased my N95-3. NEVER. Here in San Francisco, Nokia ran ads touting how they’re left their device open. Right. Another joke.

I see an iPhone in my future. And no more Nokia for me.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:16:04 +0000

Symbian’s DRM policy has deterred another customer. I will return my new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic because it doesn’t let me run the applications I would like to. I’m quite impressed by the hardware but if you buy a phone you should own it and not be artificially restricted by DRM measures! The certificate and signing process should be optional.

I only wish I had found this Blog earlier…

Symbian? FORGET IT! Never again! Go Android!

By: apogee91

apogee91 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:16:31 +0000

Here you guys go:

https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/public/openSignedOnline.do

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:00:47 +0000

Shit! I have spent the past week trying to sign .sis files without the stupid publisher ID, spend 200$ for an ID?

I can’t install SHIT on my N95 8GB!

By: umbrella

umbrella — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:49:50 +0000

Its just an elaborate plan to make some money out of it all. Symbian os is death and its time for people to switch to other systems like windows mobile 6 or 5. They have come up with this so that they could milk the last cow.

By: EXIT RGK

EXIT RGK — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:26:01 +0000

please some one help us to make valid our money spend in the n95

By: KILLNOKIA

KILLNOKIA — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:29:30 +0000

Personnaly I think Smair is just waiting for Nokia to contact him to buy over his application. He obviously was the first to develop it so Nokia can't develop the exact same things without legal hassle.

I just find Samir is not right as he's not even supporting people who donate - as I could read on many posts. I'll take your money, that's a fact.

So we face 2 thiefs : Nokia for selling restricted phones and Samir for ripping money without return.

Anyway, it keeps my view on Nokia : you must be damn stupid to release a phone which includes Accelerometers and not even using them - standard - to switch portrait to landscape. Maybe they'll learn by buying and studying the iPhone...

By: Johnsen

Johnsen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:37:05 +0000

R.I.P Symbian… If its not become "open" once again, im pretty sure that its gonna lead to a total destrution of the S60 platfrom eccosystem… No one, and by that i mean NO ON wants to have an Symbian phone withut the right to install what they want – when they want..

By: Gutted

Gutted — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:00:02 +0000

I’m gutted, been using windows smart phones for 5 years, had 3 of them and they were great. Moved to symbian 8gb n95 as thought it would be better (according to what i had heard) love the phone, but cant install unsigned software.. i.e. all the software that i would want to install..
Gutted , totally Gutted. And tied in to an 18 month contract now.. Gutted…
Will go back to windows when i can. this phone crashes pretty often too, almost as much as my last windows 6 smartphone.. love the phone, but .. gutted what a shame.

By: zee

zee — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:01:45 +0000

this is total garage by nokia and symbian i just want to put shutup which i paid for on my n95 and now i cant im on the verge of switching to an apple iphone at least they dont lie (nokia freeware isnt free it now cost over 200 dollars)