Comments on: Top 10 reasons why Apple should embrace Symbian OS for its iPhone

By: LOL

LOL — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:02:27 +0000

As a developer who has spent time working with various incarnations of the Symbian platform I would have to disagree with the views of this blog. Having now spent only a short time working with the both iPhone SDK and its alternative open development path for jail broken phones, I would have to say they are like chalk and cheese. Please don’t make sweeping generalisations for developers when you obviously have no concept of what you are talking about. Working with the iPhone platform is a dream when compared with Symbian. Spend some time trawling the web and I think you will find the general consensus from many developers is on the whole vary positive towards the iPhone. And I find it interesting that cell phone manufactures have spent some 15 years attempting to get their craft right and in one fowl swoop Apple have come in, dramatically shaken up the domain, and have done so in as little as a year… All I can say is thank god, finally we may actually begin to see some real improvement in usability standards on mobile devices.

By: flavius

flavius — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:07:42 +0000

lol. i want to belive that you are NOT an idiot. how in the hell can you say such a thing? have you EVER seen an iphone? have you seen how FAST it is? and how 1000 times faser than symbian is? you suck. your reviews as well. keep it up, moron!

By: KM

KM — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:20:44 +0000

The fun part is that Nokias web browser is based on some of the same core open source components….but Nokia beat Apple to market with their browser by a good year or so…

See: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/

By: dusanb

dusanb — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:16:28 +0000

Yeah I agree that developing for Symbian could be a not-that-easy task.

But, UI is NOT the OS! Linux has GNOME and KDE as UIs. Even Mac OS licences the core of the OS – some version of UNIX. Symbian just does that core for handling the device (drivers), the media, carrier’s things etc. S60 and UIQ, as well as MOAP (big in Japan) are software platforms that work on TOP of the Symbian OS.

Regarding your comment that Symbian is ok for semi-smartphone – I disagree 100%. Nokia N95 has way more features than the iPhone has. Can you see Flash on Safari in iPhone – no? Can you start Java apps on iPhone – no? Does iPhone has a GPS – no? What camera does iPhone have – 2 MP, versus N95’s 5 MP. Also, maximum camera for some Windows Mobile smartphone is 3 MP so far. Who’s “semi” then?

By: Hannah lyle

Hannah lyle — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:44:23 +0000

Yes you have missed out the fact that symbian is a small os that developers hate.It’s construction is woeful,someone forgot to tell you guys the ui is the os LOL s60,uiq how bizarre!OS X is a full os not a toy one.Symbian is ok for semi smartphones.WindowsCE os x and linux are for true powerhouse devices.