Linked by Liam Proven on Wed 10th Jan 2007 16:42 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless 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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RE[2]: My take
by stare on Thu 11th Jan 2007 02:24 UTC in reply to "RE: My take"
stare
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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.

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RE[3]: My take
by lproven on Thu 11th Jan 2007 02:58 in reply to "RE[2]: My take"
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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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