Samsung REX Vs. Nokia Asha
Let's prepare for the Samsung REX vs. Nokia Asha war! Samsung has announced the REX series of phones, aimed at competing with the Nokia Asha series. Both companies know that there's a huge market in India for the sub Rs. 5000 phones and want to have a big share. These entry-level smartphone markets, if I'm not mistaken are dominated by the Micromax, Spice and Lava's of India.
Nokia's betting on their S40 platform and instead of adopting android for their REX series, Samsung has decided to go pure Java. Now, it'd be a common sense to understand that there won't be significant development on the firmware side of these phones and the phones will have to rely on the existing java based apps.
I wonder why did Samsung not choose their Bada operating system for the REX series. Bada has been around and has proven to be a stable operating system that runs pretty well on limited hardware.
Price war it is, I think.
Nokia's betting on their S40 platform and instead of adopting android for their REX series, Samsung has decided to go pure Java. Now, it'd be a common sense to understand that there won't be significant development on the firmware side of these phones and the phones will have to rely on the existing java based apps.
I wonder why did Samsung not choose their Bada operating system for the REX series. Bada has been around and has proven to be a stable operating system that runs pretty well on limited hardware.
Price war it is, I think.
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