The Symbian Phone of the Decade

Salam,

In my mind the 6300 is the inheritor of the 6110, a simple yet powerful and full featured mobile (altough old now)

Maybe it was a little too good to be reproduced hehe

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Kazutoyo wrote:Me too, oh how I would love to see a new S60 candybar with xenon flash.

Its called the Satio .. but its SE not Nokia.. with a reasonably good firmware its a very nice phone.

Hardeep1singh wrote:I vote N82 over N95.

without the N95 .. there would have been no N82 .. all the basic engineering was in the game-changing N95 .. which is my smart-phone of the Decade ..

N95 Classic, most definitely.

I'm with Asri al-Baker in picking the 9300(i) as the Symbian phone of the decade, but the E90, P800 and P900 have a special place in my heart as well.

I agree with the P800. It truly was ahead of its time. Unfortunately, its successors were weak, and SE eventually abandoned UIQ and Symbian, it seems. With all the stops and starts Nokia has made in developing a touch screen, I wonder sometimes if they'd have been better off starting with UIQ.

That's where the problem lies, Nokia has stopped innovating since the N95.

I even gave Nokia one last chance with the N900 but that is a fairly big disappointment too. It's such an unfinished product...

I won't be buying another Nokia again.

Hi, I am also great fan of Moto A1000. One of the first 3G touchscreen phone with UIQ. I have spent many happy hours playing Doom, Jellyball, etc. games on this great phone. I am still using it as my secondary phone.

Unregistered wrote:Bar the camera resolution, could almost be a current phone with the spec:

3G, triband GSM
bluetooth headset, mono mp3 audio, OBEX, DUN, sync
320x200 2.8" touchscreen
handwriting recognition / fingertouch keyboard (seethru) / pen input keyboard
dpad and gamekeys for landscape gaming
AGPS
stereo speakers, 2.5 stereo headset jack
usb sync
1600mAh battery
microSD slot
POP/IMAP/exchange email
SYNCML
Sync to outlook
configurable homescreen (program launcher, emails/ cals/ todos/ text message previews, web shortcuts)
mp3, divx playback, 3gp video streaming (youtube mobile site), landscape/portrait video playback
pdf, ppt and ebook readers (landscape/portrait)
word and excel editors
opera mobile web browser with flash 7 playback (in landscape or portrait)
3D games (doom, global race etc)
social networking apps (fring)
google maps / TOMTOM satnav
front and rear cameras
complete one handed usage
Python environment for development

Dear Steve, Evan or Rafe any one one but some one please help me, I really need some help frm you

Even I wanted to know about this, with Ngage dead

1. are we going to get new games for S60 V3?

2. Please tell us the future scope of N79 s60 V3 in the gamming arena?

3. will games which are written for s60 V5 work with S60 V3?

4. what is this Open Source Thing and QT ?

5. what is Symbian^2, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4, and which category does the N79 and n86 fall?

6. Is N79 QT enabled can I expect new symbian games for N79 in 2010?

Sorry for so many questions but please please answer me !! It will help me in making some decisions !!

+1 for P800. My thoughts here:

http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38625&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=17

Best regards,
Malcolm

The N82 doesn't really figure because its only advantage is its xenon flash, the xenon is only useful for a very limited scope of functionality and therefore insuffient to raise the status of the N82. Of course the rabid xenon lovers will disagree, but seriously, they are on a different planet to normal humans.

Unregistered wrote:Dear Steve, Evan or Rafe any one one but some one please help me, I really need some help frm you

Even I wanted to know about this, with Ngage dead

1. are we going to get new games for S60 V3?

2. Please tell us the future scope of N79 s60 V3 in the gamming arena?

3. will games which are written for s60 V5 work with S60 V3?

4. what is this Open Source Thing and QT ?

5. what is Symbian^2, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4, and which category does the N79 and n86 fall?

6. Is N79 QT enabled can I expect new symbian games for N79 in 2010?

Sorry for so many questions but please please answer me !! It will help me in making some decisions !!

We'll try and address most of these in the next AAS podcast! Thanks for writing in!

yeah, the N95 is most definitely the winner for Symbian phone of the decade, and IMO smartphone of the decade,

but as much as the N95 pushed the envelope, it's a sign of Nokia's failure that they were unable to refine it much further after all this time, why not incremental improvements such as a 1500mAh battery, video light + xenon (like SE phones), faster cpu, usb charging - they wouldn't even end up releasing crappy firmware to accommodate such changes ...

Fantastic article, I must say that AAS editors have really outdid themselves this time.

First off, I just want to to ask the people who are insisting on voting the N82 over the N95; Do you understand the word "Groundbreaking"? Now dont get me wrong; the N82is indeed a fantastic device with lots of promising features. But like what the article said, it WAS'NT the first to really bring the FEATURES that the N95 brought on.

Yes it has a Xenon flash, but it WASNT the first mobile to introduce it in the first place (think SE K800i). If there is one thing that the N82 brought in was to CORRECT the Faults of the N95 that came FIRST before it.

The N95 was not the first to offer WiFi, but it was the first to bring in Maps via GPS, a great dual form factor, an amazing Camera and all those great features that we came to know form later devices. If newer phones offered better features it is because the N95 was the first to introduce them in a mobile package, and it is but right to correct the mistakes that it had - this is called "Moving Forward".

But if you cant accept it as a device of the decade then DONT! Its as simple as that, but do us all a favor and act like like real mature people instead of yapping w/c is w/c!

Tacsiyapo!

you all forgot about the n80, which was before all the N9* sported wifi and all the bells and whistles

slitchfield wrote:I asked an eclectic selection of 20 luminaries, bloggers and power users from the Symbian ecosystem: "Which is the Symbian-powered smartphone of the Decade? Which one was most significant, the most memorable, the most game-changing and the most loved?" Here are their answers, for your interest and amusement - and yes, a clear winner emerged...

Read on in the full article.

I go with 6600 and then N95.. N70 comes 3rd (I'm still using these two N-series phones)

Thinking about the decade to come anyone have any insight into whether or not there will be a new communicator?