Comments on: Bloody Nokia

By: Lex Ferenda » Irish tech blogs - in a paragraph!

Lex Ferenda » Irish tech blogs - in a paragraph! — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:01:24 +0000

[...] Ken has an honest spammer while Justin has a bizarre law-related spam story. Away from the laptop, Nokia’s N70 causes problems and Top Gear gets into trouble. The Ireland-USA relationship is an interesting one; Intel’s [...]

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:40:23 +0000

I hope so, as it sounds like a killer app!

By: bullrun

bullrun — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:13:24 +0000

it uses some of the newer s60 stuff so it is not backward compatible. but, a version for S60 2.x should be coming soon …

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:21:17 +0000

Wow, I just assumed it was a memory or CPU thing. Now I’m even more annoyed!

You can criticise MS for many things but backwards compatibility at an application level is one thing they did 100% right. However, I don’t know if that’s true about WinCE/Windows Mobile.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:55:49 +0000

S60 3rd edition introduced a binary backwards-incompatibility in the file format for Symbian executables. So you cannot support both 3rd edition and pre-3rd edition phones with the same installation package. That is why you see so many applications limited to 3rd edition only, if only one application version is available.

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:38:48 +0000

I’m actually not going to change. N70 is fine for at least another year.

I just got a very lightweight small laptop instead – not as slick as some of those Smartphones but it’ll run 16-year old apps now and everything new that comes along for the next three years at least. And then I’ll put Ubuntu2011 on it and run it for another 4 years.

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:30:56 +0000

I am on the hunt for a good smartphone here in Ireland too and have been quite disappointed with the network operator’s support. You have to, as you are, go through eBay or expansys.ie to get what you want (I want the Nokia E60. Neither O2 nor Vodafone Ireland are going to bring it here.)

That Compact III looks pretty good, gets decent reviews.

As for the Nokia N73 I wouldn’t get one. A co-worker has one and it is slow, switching between apps is frustrating. All the additional CPU power they cram in they nullify with bloated apps. Keep it simple guys, give me performance.

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:21:40 +0000

But it hardly makes good business sense to fully support your competition but only half-support your own products at launch time?

By: erwin

erwin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:13:58 +0000

I’m quite sure, there will be a release for older S60 devices too. These guys at gate5 used to support series60 2.n in the past too. Maybe you just have to be patient for while.