Symbian recently announced that its OS has powered 100 million phones. That's not bad - it's a lot of licences - but then, mobile phones shift around a billion units a year now. But a phone with Symbian isn't any old phone. It's a smartphone. 
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Member since:2005-07-06
For the PDA:
I want a C21 Psion 5mx: something like a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, but in the form factor of the Psion, and additionally with the same range of apps as the Psion and a keyboard as good as the Psion's.
Wait for the Nokia E90.
I want a Nokia 6310i, with 3G and Wifi, plus a bigger higher-res screen, more flexible UI, more customisability and masses of memory, which can seamlessly sync to any kind of computer - Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever - via USB2 or wirelessly. It should, in essence, be a phone with an integral high-capacity USB pendrive
Nokia E60.
Member since:2006-08-23
The Communicators were not a patch for the Psions in terms of ease of use, flexibility or power. No touchscreen, /lousy/ keyboard, tiny, cramped design constrained by the phone form factor and a smaller, lower-resolution screen. I've not yet seen an E90 - it's not out yet - but of these, the only one that I know it fixes is the screen res.
I've only had a 2min play with an E60. It's a nice little device, but its keypad and joystick-based navigation method is, for my money, considerably inferior to that of the old 6310. I also find S60 more awkward to navigate than old dumb Nokia phones. But yes, it is indeed close!
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2006-08-23
Well, if you mean by that that there is nothing resembling what I want out there, then yes, you're right.
But if you mean that I can't tell you what I'd like, well, no.
Actually, as of last night, I want an iPhone ;-), but even so, lovely as it is, it doesn't do all I want from a PDA and could not.
What I was saying was that the requirements of my ideal PDA and those of my ideal phone are too different for any one device to be both. It's not possible.
For the PDA:
I want a C21 Psion 5mx: something like a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, but in the form factor of the Psion, and additionally with the same range of apps as the Psion and a keyboard as good as the Psion's.
For the phone:
I want a Nokia 6310i, with 3G and Wifi, plus a bigger higher-res screen, more flexible UI, more customisability and masses of memory, which can seamlessly sync to any kind of computer - Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever - via USB2 or wirelessly. It should, in essence, be a phone with an integral high-capacity USB pendrive. I don't care if it has a camera or colour or MP3 or any of those things, as long as it's big and solid and robust and fast and easy to use, small enough to fit easily into a pocket and runs for ages on its standard battery.
Neither is hard to do. The technology is here today and quite widespread. But nothing like either exists.
Why not?