TANKERx
02-02-2003, 12:52 PM
You may think it looks like a toy, I may think it looks like a toy, but inside, it's a powerhouse! This review (http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05apnokia_1.html?s=tc) is clearly written by someone who has been blow away by the phone! Maybe it shows just how far behind the rest of us the US is, but reading such positive comments from a place where anything without a Microsoft logo is disregarded as pointless (or 'bugfart' as they like to say)....
We pored over the 3650’s technical documentation for weeks before we received the phone, which is a prototype distributed to developers. The more we read, the more we thought, “This isn’t a phone.” Quite right; voice calls are almost tangential to its design, although with a speakerphone, voice dialing, and a backlit keypad, it does voice as well as any mobile phone we’ve used. The 3650 is clearly a networked pocket computer, a portable mesh node, a reference platform for developers
We had only enough time to scratch the surface of Nokia’s Series 60 operating environment and programming interfaces. For this phone, custom development is where the action is. The built-in PIM applications are quite good for a phone and make the best possible use of the 176-by-208 color display. But Nokia has exposed and documented the phone’s networking and graphical features to developers in great detail, and developers can grab the tools and documentation online. The efficient Java run-time encourages the kind of small-scale casual and in-house development that leads to innovation, while the C++ tools hit the performance targets required by commercial software.
Shame it's so butt ugly (IMHO).
We pored over the 3650’s technical documentation for weeks before we received the phone, which is a prototype distributed to developers. The more we read, the more we thought, “This isn’t a phone.” Quite right; voice calls are almost tangential to its design, although with a speakerphone, voice dialing, and a backlit keypad, it does voice as well as any mobile phone we’ve used. The 3650 is clearly a networked pocket computer, a portable mesh node, a reference platform for developers
We had only enough time to scratch the surface of Nokia’s Series 60 operating environment and programming interfaces. For this phone, custom development is where the action is. The built-in PIM applications are quite good for a phone and make the best possible use of the 176-by-208 color display. But Nokia has exposed and documented the phone’s networking and graphical features to developers in great detail, and developers can grab the tools and documentation online. The efficient Java run-time encourages the kind of small-scale casual and in-house development that leads to innovation, while the C++ tools hit the performance targets required by commercial software.
Shame it's so butt ugly (IMHO).