Thread: With the E7-00 coming next month, is anyone jumping ship?
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2011-01-17 , 20:06
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Originally Posted by cjp View Post
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Symbian <snip>There's just really nothing interesting about it.
You bring up a really good point. It seems to me that the OS of a solid busness phone, not a tablet but a phone, should be uninteresting. It should work, work well and not cross the end user's mind. It should handle all the e-mail. messaging, phone calling, adress booking, note taking, web surfing, photography stuff so well the user never thinks about the underlying OS.

Maemo5, on the other hand, is very interesting in part because you have to do something to get it to handle many of the above chores well. Interest in the OS becomes a survival thing if you are using the N900 as your daily phone. Then, it also does a lot of stuff most phones only dream about. Which makes it even more interesting.

I'm not sure we want Symbian interesting in the way Maemo5 is when it comes to stuff like hooking up a Bluetooth keyboard for example. Can be done but you have to edit files to make it happen. Having Symbian plug and play that sort of thing makes it uninteresting but serviceable.

When someone is out there trying to conquer the world with a calculator does he or she really need to be xterming a phone to type on a better keyboard?

My point is uninteresting is best for the business phone use case.
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