> While waiting for my GSM Treo 600 I picked up a Nokia 3650 (Symbian) > for $99 during a t-mobile promotion. If they ever get a thumboard on > one of these things, PalmOne had better watch out!
and, got rid of that circular numeric keypad :) > The main attraction I see is the cheap price, high performance (> 100MHz), its actually 102Mhz :) ooers.. *g* > I bought a browser, Doris Browser, and wow it just runs rings around > anything on the PalmOS platform < OS 5.x. thats not something specific to the processing speed or memory. it is mainly due to the fact that the PalmOS platform architectually still lives with the 1997 idea of palmos 1.0 - that should be changing now with OS6 (yay) > Programming is definitely weird, but you can do a lot of stuff with > very little knowledge. I know that the Treo 600 is going to blow it > away, but I'm finding this 3650 to be strangely addicting (hello > Bluetooth!), and I'm almost a Palm fanatic. the development kits for symbian really suck - but, the good news is that they are gcc based (for some of us). there lacks decent compiler/front end support for these tools; hence, it can be quite hard to write even simple applications. symbian has always had the idea of pushing J2ME based applications; which, i personally see as a mistake - mainly due to speed. a lot of 'symbian' users are actually J2ME, very few are native C++ developers. nokia 3650 is not good to compare; the nokia 6600 will be interesting. the real threat to palmOne and the Treo 600 is the Sony Ericsson P900 but, at 6500 sek (~850 $USD) in sweden; it has to come down in price to really be a competitor. --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php [profile] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
