What About Symbian^3 is it any good ?

[Iniyila 2]

Hello everyoneMy friend bought a new phone (nokia C7) which is using symbian^3 os. i got it in my hand and i worked with it for about 3 hours and i can say i have seen somethings in this os which reminds me of very old mobile opertaing systems. first of GUI is not good at all, the icons, menus, scrolling, opening a category and ... everything is just like other symbian devices (maybe a little different). applications are running rather slower than my previous symbian s60v5 phone even with higher clock cpu. i haven't seen any really noticable battery usage difference between an s60v5 and symbian^3 if you set phone to offline mode so the difference is only when you are using gprs chip (at least this was what i saw when i was comparing nokia 5800 and nokia c7). symbian^3 supports divx/xvid playback (after a longtime !) but there was problem while playing some xvid music videos because codecs were not supported. anyway i was hoping that new symbian will become something comparable to android or windows phone 7 but i'm completely disappointed now. nokia is trying to make it's symbian^3 devices more acceptable by encouraging some game developers to making HQ games for ^3 devices and there is some games released with large file size and good graphic but if i want to play game i will go for android because only how you can play with your phone is not important how you feel with your phone is the most important thing.so i shared some of my experiences with symbina ^3 devices and you can share them here too if you like.

Edited January 5, 2011 by Iniyila (see edit history)

[chinu 0]

Hello everyone

 

My friend bought a new phone (nokia C7) which is using symbian^3 os. i got it in my hand and i worked with it for about 3 hours and i can say i have seen somethings in this os which reminds me of very old mobile opertaing systems. first of GUI is not good at all, the icons, menus, scrolling, opening a category and ... everything is just like other symbian devices (maybe a little different). applications are running rather slower than my previous symbian s60v5 phone even with higher clock cpu. i haven't seen any really noticable battery usage difference between an s60v5 and symbian^3 if you set phone to offline mode so the difference is only when you are using gprs chip (at least this was what i saw when i was comparing nokia 5800 and nokia c7). symbian^3 supports divx/xvid playback (after a longtime !) but there was problem while playing some xvid music videos because codecs were not supported. anyway i was hoping that new symbian will become something comparable to android or windows phone 7 but i'm completely disappointed now. nokia is trying to make it's symbian^3 devices more acceptable by encouraging some game developers to making HQ games for ^3 devices and there is some games released with large file size and good graphic but if i want to play game i will go for android because only how you can play with your phone is not important how you feel with your phone is the most important thing.

 

so i shared some of my experiences with symbina ^3 devices and you can share them here too if you like.

 

to be honest i think sybian s60v5 is the mobile phone os. firtly its a phone u use for texting , talking and browsing. it isnt like iphone (it sucks, i hate my iphone which i bought a year ago)that doesnt allow u to talk at ur wish due to frequent hang-ups (hang-up of call - not device itself), low connectivity. these problems persists with all service providers. all messenging (sms) features of a lower phone are incorporated in a s60/s40 device but iphone misses a few of them.

 

secondly : android isnt a good for your hardware. it leads to more usage of ram and cpu. to be honest i take it as the worst os in current standings. leads to frequent hang-ups of the device in samsung galaxy and htc devics. (used a few of them for short periods. i dont own any android devices, its for kids) while android is so unstale in case of stability no other os can defeate symbian s60v5.

 

third: its the oldest and worlds first mobile os that started the concept of smart phones with nokia communications series and e-series of devices later powering the n-series. it was never popularly accepted by other manufacturers due to dominant role played by nokia. well s60 were the first phones to enable multitasking, intalling 3rd part apps other then java, support 12 mp camera (thnxs to samsung for devoleping s60 in this feild -many other os still dont support more than 6mp, hdmi support, external usb support, support flash gmaes and videos,torrent download and upload (via external and independently devoleped app, no other od still supports it), support windows silverlight even befor windows mobile could.

 

moreover a s60 app can be programed in java, s60 sdk , s40 sdk, web os , web kit, qt , c++ , c, j2me, jfx which are supported natively. installing apps can enable u to run python, plam os , nes, snes, game boy , super game boy , dos, flash, gba, sega genesis/mega drive , SEGA "Game Gear", "Master System", torrents, n-gage(i can run 75% of n-gage games on any nokia hand set) apps/games. not all but manny "mame" (multiple arcade machine emulator) games are also supported via an application (only for s60v3, s60v2 and keyboard enabled s60v5 phones - no s40 support yet).

 

fourth - its the only os to support other platforms. i mean look no other smartpjone os supports j2me(java) or python, while most of the lower end phone does support j2me. if u could count j2me apps it would be much more than s60, ios, black berry os, android, web os m palm os taking together. j2me is like windows of mobile cuz it was first platform that independent devolepers could build on. there are apps for specific functions . like there are apps using which u could place a call via someone else iphone but talk using ur s60. thus it couls save u $$$. u could even get his personal calenders, sms , mms, pic via bluetooth without owners consent etc.

 

the idea of mobile dj ( the very base of samsung bada os) was first implement on s60. nokia dj mixer (s60v2- only n72, s60v5) , romplr (for s60v5) were only dj mixer , remixing softwares for mobile marcket till very recently.

 

these are my own views and not somebody else's. and am from india.

 

Apple and Nokia have a fundamental difference and therefore their launch processes are different. Nokia sees an advanced mobile phone as a mobile computer, Apple sees their mobile device as a computer peripheral. There is a historical reason for that, Apple wanted to sell iPods to Mac owners and only later implemented support for other operating systems.

 

Nokia thinks their devices must work out of the box. They want to test the device in the wild before selling it. They can catch the fundamental design flaws on the hardware side and continue improving SW while testing and marketing the hardware globally. At the same time they refine demand predictions with operators.

 

Apple builds a pile of devices before launch and at the same time they develop software for it. Their devices do not work out of the box and are essentially computer peripherals. The software is updated beyond boot loader when the device is activated. This approach also promotes Apple computer hardware sales. It gives you a short time from launch to market, but prevents widespread public testing of the device, may lead to uncaught hardware design flaws and makes the prediction of demand harder.

 

We are coming to an era where your mobile phone can be your only computer. Screen, keyboard and mouse are waiting for you at home or in the office. Mobile is not a peripheral any more. This development is similar to Nokia approach.

to end with

i found these images online perfectly illustrating exactly what Nokia is facing in the US media. The Anti-Nokia bias is not a myth, it's REAL ( i hope knoledgesutra doesnt ban me). Comments get deleted all the time and people get blocked from sites for calling them out on their bias.

 

http://oi54.tinypic.com/2iligl4.jpg http://tinypic.com/images/404.gif

 

he issue is in large part American protectionism, pure and simple. "Not grown here" technology, defend the American-produced iPhone and Android at all costs. It's bordering on racism frankly. I am not anti-American but my God the iPhone and Android fanboys are SERIOUSLY anti-anything-unAmerican. They will hate, hate, hate mobile tech that isn't American. It's a threat, and must be hated. Pride is at stake here, no matter how inferior the iPhone and Android are (and they REALLY are inferior to the N8).

 

Yes, I'm making the point in stark terms here, but I'm correct