Curt Sampson wrote:
> I found this bit interesting:
>
> [Nokia's] only alternative, in practice, is to go Linux, which it is
> of course experimenting with, but it's still not an easy path to go.
>
> Having investigated (and even mucked with) the internals of several
> OSes, I can say that Linux itself, even these days, is far from a
> beautiful piece of work. If they consider Symbian even worse (which
> isn't clear), that speaks volumes.
Having mucked with both I would have to say that Symbian appears to be
worse. At least when it comes to bloat. Killing off S80 (the new E90
Communicator is S60) seems like a good choice. The old 9110 communicator
(GEOS based) was more stable, snappier and had better cross app
communication even though the CPU was running at a fraction of the speed
of the 9300i. Linux ran pretty well even on the first iPaqs (even X) -
have not tried the latest, but I'm pretty sure it rocks these days.
My 0.02 EUR / Jonas
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