The most full-featured smartphone in the world, the Nokia N80, is previewed by AllAboutSymbian. The SymbianOS 3rd Edition S60 phone has all modern features a user needs (including WiFi, 3G, VGA videoconf camera in addition to a 3MP camera, UPnP, Bluetooth 2.0 with the A2DP and printing profiles, 352×416 screen, stereo FM radio etc) and it’s short only to DVB-H TV reception and a more powerful 3D accelerator. The russian site Mobile-Review previewed the S60 3rd Edition a few days ago too showing off the immense visual and other differences of the operating system compared to the older version.
Symbian’s S60 Gets Previewed
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i’d rather have a phone that runs netbsd and has a usb or ps2 port for a keyboard… then i wouldn’t have to carry my laptop around with me all the time…
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone PM-8200/US/1.0) NetFront/3.1 MMP/2.0
Nokia’s phones are all compatible with Nokia’s Bluetooth mini-keyboard. You need no usb or… PS/2.
http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,,59980,00.html
You can also install an SSH client and have access to your NetBSD/Unix box while on the go.
I see you posted this comment with a Sanyo phone btw and its Netfront browser. I guess you are on the Sprint network.
Edited 2005-12-13 07:05
This is nice and all, but what carriers allow the use of a symbian OS phone? Not trolling, honest…recently purchased a smart phone and the only available options in California were either Palm or Windows based. The carriers I tried were Sprint, Cingular, and the only other one available Verizon. Seeing as how these are the biggest carriers in the US and do not support Symbian smart phones, what others are there that I missed? Serious question.
The Nokia N80 is *already* being approved by the FCC to be used with Cingular. The N80 phone that I used last Thursday on my meeting with Nokia engineers (check my report about it tomorrow here on osnews) was a Cingular phone.
All carriers in Europe, for instance
. That ranges from two per country (e.g. Slovakia) to 6-7 per country (Finland, AFAIK). Most countries have 3 or 4.
The trick is to screw the carriers and buy the phone unlocked. Not one US carrier was willing to sell the P800, but I bought it direct from S-E and it works fine with T-Mobile.
I also never buy locked phones. Ever. If a phone is not unlocked, I don’t use it.
Half my phones I bought locked. Both T-Mobile and Cingular have unlock policies – 90 days of service minimum and good financial standing (ie you dont owe them money).
If there is a nice phone out there, I will change carrier to get it cheaper than unlocked.
I bought my P800 though unlocked from the UK the very same day it was released.
Its been a long time since a Nokia has appealed to me, but this puppy is sweet!
Quadband GSM and Dualband UMTS! This means that you can use it on any carrier that runs GSM or UMTS (In north america: Cingular, T-Mobile, Fido, Rogers and all their MVNOs
I cuold care less about DVB-H since it is not used in North America (or in Greece where I would most likely roam to) Video acceleration would be nice, but I dont plan on playing that many games on it.
It’s been a while since I drooled about a phone