S60 Annoyances: The networking stack

This isn’t my annoyance since I don’t use VoIP but it’s PhoneBoy’s, and boy o boy does he know how to rant:

Luca reminded me
today that I like to push the limits of my devices. I push my phones to
their breaking point. My phone bounces between GPRS and WiFi multiple
times a day, sometimes connected via both. Between that, Bluetooth, and
Podcasts, yes, I can easily run my phone battery down in a day,
sometimes less.

But today, I’ve been a bit frustrated with my Nokia phones. The
issue I am about to write about is something I’ve run into in various
Nokia Series 60 devices, particularly on the N and E series phones. It
involves that thing that makes the phone more than just the phone–the
networking stack, and how applications use it. The applications I will
refer to will be only applications that are included as part of a
factory default configuration, i.e. no third-party apps.

Source: PhoneBoy

I suggest you read his entire piece, I never knew such problems existed. Then again me and Ken Camp already came to the conclusion that everyone uses their phone in a different way. PhoneBoy seems to be pushing these S60 devices to their limits, which is good since he can now point out their faults.

Here’s one tip I have for you PhoneBoy: Use the RSS reader in Opera Mini, it’s MUCH better than the one built in to S60 devices.