[OSM-talk] Series 60 phone recommendations?

[Nick Black]

In the light of S80s being a bit lame so far as programming and Nokia
Symbian phones generally being bloated, can anyone reccomend a decent
phone.  I'm (supposedly) using the S60 for developing a GPS app, but I
want a phone for myself that isn't totally over-featured, but does
support Java (Python a bonus).

Incidentally, does anyone have any info on GPS enabled phones?  I keep
hearing 6 months, 6 months, 6 months for the last year or so, but I'll
be damned if I'm going to sign up to a 12 month contract only for GPS
phones to be released the next day.

Cheers,

Nick



On 7/25/06, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/25/06, Emil <emil79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wouldn't recommend buying an S60 phone if usability and doing normal
> > things like making phone calls is your thing. I've got an N80 at
> > present and it is continually driving me round the bend. Problems:
> > * a blue light flashes every few seconds. Presumably the phones
> > designers never try to sleep with their phones beside the bed....
> > * annoying delays when opening applications, going to the gallery
> > etc.. Feels like you're back in the 1990s.
> > * Can't get it to lock the keypad automatically when you push in the keypad.
> > * Stupid signing issues - I'd like to be root on my own phone thankyou.
> > * Other moronic user interface issues too numerous to mention.
> >
> > OTOH the web browser is nice, but won't save login details. Perhaps
> > Opera does this.
> >
> > p.s. probably the above issues can be solved by googling....
> >
> > Emil
>
> If I can add my two-cents to the bitching about Nokia.  Why dont the
> bastards supply SDKs for Linux ? Because they suck!
>
> Nick
>
> >
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