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2009-09-07 , 19:41
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
You'd have to stick to a lowest common denominator (which can be really low, depending on how old Symbian/ARM sets do you want to support) and at that point it's not that attractive anymore (as you loose all the fancy extensions which actually constitute a large part of the improvements).
Right. For the devices given, we're talking about ARMv6 (N97 and E71) vs ARMv7 (N900) instruction sets, right? Hopefully the set of common instructions/features between ARMv6 and ARMv7 isn't too restrictive.

Same with the Symbian in use -- I'd bet it's rather recent. And, while I've never done low level Symbian coding (nor high level, for that matter), it's my understanding that it does a good job of abstracting away specific hardware (peripherals and peripheral configurations, and such), just like *nix platforms tend to do. So, a difference in peripheral modules probably wouldn't keep you from running the same application.
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