North America has sucky operators. It doesn't matter how good your phone is if your operator doesn't know how to build a proper network. I've been living in Vancouver for a year now and nowhere in Europe you get this lousy operators (e.g. Fido, lot of dropped calls, crackling sound etc.)
I've been using the same phone in Europe without any problems!
Having used both Microsoft SmartPhone and Nokia Series 60 phones (7650 and 3650) I can tell you that Microsoft offering is garbage compared to the Nokia ones... UI is more intuitive and usable. Also Bluetooth, MIDP 2.0 and Symbian OS provides (for me) a more attractive and usable environment. Plus the phone is actually a lot more stabler.
The Microsoft SDK is a more usable though than the current Nokia one, but I was able to create a GPS program for my 3650 in three days. It uses Socket's Bluetooth GPS module for location information and downloads a map from Mapblast using GPRS connection - a bit like GpsDrive and one program done for SonyEricsson P800. You cannot do that in SmartPhone (current phones for not have Bluetooth).
So for Series 60 SDK: Forum Nokia and your Bluetooth examples and community help from: Berlin Factor Newlc
And one more thing there are more than three million Series 60 phones out there compared to measly 80000 Microsoft SmartPhones:-).
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North America has sucky operators. It doesn't matter how good your phone is if your operator doesn't know how to build a proper network. I've been living in Vancouver for a year now and nowhere in Europe you get this lousy operators (e.g. Fido, lot of dropped calls, crackling sound etc.) I've been using the same phone in Europe without any problems!
Having used both Microsoft SmartPhone and Nokia Series 60 phones (7650 and 3650) I can tell you that Microsoft offering is garbage compared to the Nokia ones... UI is more intuitive and usable. Also Bluetooth, MIDP 2.0 and Symbian OS provides (for me) a more attractive and usable environment. Plus the phone is actually a lot more stabler.
:-).
The Microsoft SDK is a more usable though than the current Nokia one, but I was able to create a GPS program for my 3650 in three days. It uses Socket's Bluetooth GPS module for location information and downloads a map from Mapblast using GPRS connection - a bit like GpsDrive and one program done for SonyEricsson P800. You cannot do that in SmartPhone (current phones for not have Bluetooth).
So for Series 60 SDK:
Forum Nokia and your Bluetooth examples and community help from:
Berlin Factor
Newlc And one more thing there are more than three million Series 60 phones out there compared to measly 80000 Microsoft SmartPhones