How do regular S60 applications behave on the massive screen of the Nokia E90?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Sunday, May 6th, 2007 at 6:25 PM PST In Devices
Steve over at All About Symbian has the details.
One interesting quote about the PIM:
In ‘the early verdict’,
I mentioned that users of the older Psion palmtops and Nokia (NYSE: NOK)
Communicators will have some adjusting to do in terms of the core
applications in the E90 – the ride from EPOC to Nokia Series 80 to
Nokia S60 is arguably downhill all the way.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. As a former Palm (NSDQ: PALM) user and PSION Revo owner I am simply dumbfounded that the S60 PIM suite of applications is so barebones.
How did this happen?
I think we start to see S60 limiting these high end devices. I would see maemo peoples to be intergrated into development of future communicator devices.
Two possible reasons why S60 PIM has been kept so simple:
1) Most S60 buyers _truly_ do not need more and prefer it simple (I am sure Nokia has done a ton of consumer research on this as well)
2) Nokia wanted to support the S60 ecosystem by not crowding out 3rd party PIM developers. With its resources, Nokia could probably create any given app and crush the start up developers.
Having said that, now that S60 is being used in high end enterprise devices and communicators, the time for better native S60 PIM has probably come.
I don’t buy the 3rd party argument — look at the Palm software ecosystem! I think they probably decided it was enough for what the core audience wanted and have yet to build on more … which I agree is ridiculous. The PIM is weak!