Here's another S40 phone recommended by a friend in Sri Lanka.
http://mynokia2730.blogspot.com/2010/04/nokia-2730-supports-tamil-and-sinhala.html
This costs just Rs.4,200 (100 USD) and has 3G support.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
- Original Message
> From: BalaSundaraRaman
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: Ravishankar Ayyakkannu
> Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 8:43:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] support for Indic script
>
> Hello Mani,
>
> You have left out Symbian 9.1 (S60 3rd edition phones) in the table.
> While they do not natively support Indic languages, there's a slightly
> roundabout way to read most Indic scripts and other complex scripts.
> In my Nokia N72, for instance, I've enabled "support for complex script
> rendering". Opera Mini renders Indic texts as images (jpg/bmp?).
> This way, I'm able to read Tamil text.
>
> Also, contrary to popular thinking, it is the lower end phones that have
>better
>
> Indic language support. Nokia 5130 (S40 v5) is one such phone with good
> Tamil
> support. Ravishankar Ayyakkannu (User:Ravidreams) of Tamil Wikipedia has
> reviewed this
> at
>http://blog.ravidreams.net/2009/09/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF/
> (in
> Tamil). Copying him so that he can add more info.
>
> - Sundar
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
>the
>
> expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Mani Pande
> > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 4:21:12 AM
> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] support for Indic script
> >
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to figure out which Indic languages are supported on
> > different
> >mobile operating systems. I have created a table to map support for Indic
> >languages on different mobile OS, I would appreciate if you would populate
>the
>
> >table so we can have a clearer understanding on scripting for Indian
>languages.
> >
> > You can find the link on the strategy wiki. Here is the link:
> >http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile/Forecasts/India
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mani
> >
> >
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