Nokia's highend handsets are running SymbianOS 7.0
and mostly their own Series 60 platform. It is not
particularly stable and there are odd disparities
between particular Nokia models that are supposed
to run the same OS. If the OS could be updated OTA
(Over-The-Air) it'd sure be neat but this won't be
possible for a year or two yet. You have to go to
a Nokia service center...
My experience with Windows Mobile OS is that it
offers pretty much the same stability. I haven't
used too many applications created for Windows
based handsets, but on Series 60 they are extremely
unstable. Also the phones tend to leak a lot of
memory and you shouldn't be surprised if you have
to restart your brand new Nokia every few days.
Sound familiar? Yep, but you cope with it, in the
same way that you shrug when Windows decides
that blue is the colour of the day.
For some reason the "Out of memory. Close some
applications and try again." tends to happen when
you have the camera trained on some pretty girl:-(
The handset will become the computer and integrate
everything in itself. This I do not doubt and the
industry is preparing for it already.
> Great! Being nerds we will never *play* soccer - we got robots to do that.
The times are changing, my friend.
Here in Finland (yes, it's a country, see CIA Factbook) one the local TV networks is looking for a number of geeks to form a soccer team "FC Nerds". They explicitly demand that the applicants are a) geeks, b) not at all interested or proficient in soccer. They plan to hire experts to coach the team. Perhaps even cheerleaders.
The beginning paragraph says "We're looking for 16 supernice, fun, self-ironic and smart GEEKS, who are ready to become the new idols on Sub-TV."
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Nokia's highend handsets are running SymbianOS 7.0 and mostly their own Series 60 platform. It is not particularly stable and there are odd disparities between particular Nokia models that are supposed to run the same OS. If the OS could be updated OTA (Over-The-Air) it'd sure be neat but this won't be possible for a year or two yet. You have to go to a Nokia service center... My experience with Windows Mobile OS is that it offers pretty much the same stability. I haven't used too many applications created for Windows based handsets, but on Series 60 they are extremely unstable. Also the phones tend to leak a lot of memory and you shouldn't be surprised if you have to restart your brand new Nokia every few days. Sound familiar? Yep, but you cope with it, in the same way that you shrug when Windows decides that blue is the colour of the day. For some reason the "Out of memory. Close some applications and try again." tends to happen when you have the camera trained on some pretty girl :-(
The handset will become the computer and integrate
everything in itself. This I do not doubt and the
industry is preparing for it already.
> Great! Being nerds we will never *play* soccer - we got robots to do that.
The times are changing, my friend.
Here in Finland (yes, it's a country, see CIA Factbook) one the local TV networks
is looking for a number of geeks to form a soccer team "FC Nerds".
They explicitly demand that the applicants are a) geeks, b) not at all interested or proficient
in soccer. They plan to hire experts to coach the team. Perhaps even cheerleaders.
The beginning paragraph says "We're looking for 16 supernice, fun, self-ironic and smart GEEKS,
who are ready to become the new idols on Sub-TV."
I, for one, definitely send in my resume.
-?