S60 and Mac - from first principles - part 3
Continuing my series of 'Mac virgin' walkthroughs, I tackle the thorny (and somewhat massive) subject of video... Gulp.
Continuing my series of 'Mac virgin' walkthroughs, I tackle the thorny (and somewhat massive) subject of video... Gulp.
Continuing the series looking at Mac options from the point of view of a S60 phone owner.
Ewan's topical picks...
Living near a big city (Reading in my case), it's all too easy to think of my phone/smartphone experience as being typical of the norm. During the course of a week away in rural Somerset (look it up on a map of the UK), I made several observations (hey, I'm just in an emboldening mood...) which show that we should never take 'our' mobile environment for granted or assume any level of capability in other mobile users.
And, along the way, managed to crash an 'iPhone' and get a couple of people to go all dizzy while explaining what I was doing with the N95 8GB...
Ewan decides he needs to do his own device comparison round up.
Some light relief for the weekend?
Looking at real world usability of the current (smart)phone flagships...
You've written your Killer App, now it's a matter of selling it. But at what cost? Ewan thinks about the issue of pricing games and applications in the modern world. In response Steve points out the true cost of gaming and argues that purchase price is almost irrelevant.
Owners of smartphones have long looked down on budget phones with the assumption that cheap means nasty. However, budget phones have developed in leaps and bounds lately, and they may catch up with smartphones sooner than most people realise.
Last week I received a long and polite, yet hard hitting, email from an iPhone fan, Nikolay Andreev, questioning some of my statements and opinions in terms of device advocacy, specifically me quoting the Nokia N95 8GB and E71 as being better than the iPhone 3G. Now, these sorts of debates and opinions are very common in the computer world, but in this case I thought the points that Nikolay raised were interesting and worthy of me taking time to respond publicly, for general interest. Although this is 'All About Symbian' and opinions and comments may well be a little skewed towards the Nokias, I'd still welcome comments about my comments.... if you see what I mean!
Rafe looks at the details of the Symbian Foundation and its possible implications.