Interesting Slashdot Post on Symbian, Nokia, and the iPhone

Opera mini is a brilliant example of a third party java app that works brilliantly. If someone coded a new browser widget in the same vein I would be happy as all.


Also. I am on Windows mobile and I have found that locating, installing, and managing programs has been the easiest of any platform. Locating is easy simply because there is SO MUCH out there (be it free or pay). Installing is as simple as loading a .cab and clicking on it. Installed! Done! Managing is, again, easy as there is a task manager and a simple remove programs link under settings.

I mean. When switching platforms (for two weeks) I was frustrated with Windows mobile because it WASN'T symbian, but when I just sat down and approached it from a perspective of a new OS, I found that it had a number of options Symbian lacked.

I didn't know coding for symbian was so difficult. I was wondering why there wasn't a huge migration of software from V2 to V3 despite the growth of platforms using the new S60.
 
Yes but there's a huge difference between a widget and a full on app. Plus, if you count java as apps, then EVERY phone is a smartphone. There's a huge difference, imo.
 
I guess this is getting a bit off topic, but I have noticed with java's ability (and library) growing, that difference between smartphone and "dumb" phone is becoming a thing margin. I still think a smartphone is a phone that can have progams coded for it in it's "native" language and focuses primarily on higher level PIM / Entertainment functions. This is a topic for a different thread though, but I have found I can't rule out "dumb" phones as easily with the progress programmers have made with java programs.
 
I read this from a link by RingNokia yesterday. I thought the comment was damn bias and only offer one point of perspective. Yet, I see many people saying that developing apps for S60 is really hard. So, I guess maybe it really is. So that is actually a valid point.

Although, from a consumer's perspective, I love S60! It is really easy to use and is really Nokia'ish, which makes me fell in love with it. Windows Mobile is just... -_- not such a decent OS. I think it is slowe than S60, and isn't that user friendly. UIQ is pretty decent though. (I wonder how is the ease of development for UIQ as that is also Symbian.)

So, saying that the S60 sucks purely because of the kernel and coding difficulty doesn't make much sense. To me, the user matters more.
 
I have to agree. I am a software developer myself, I can do VB, C#, and Java (J2RE, and J2SE) but when it came to symbian or J2ME, I just could not grasp it. I tried a couple IDEs and emulators. I had no clue what was going on! I just gave up
 
Perhaps a case of too little, too late.

Sure, it makes S60FP3 attractive to develop for... but what about all the other devices?

Where does that leave the yet to be released N75? Or N76? Are they going to be ignored by devs in favor of the easier to code for S60v3 FP2? Or will they just plod on with the older code base?
 
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