The Symbians Are Coming

I was a bit ho-hum about the news that Nokia is buying the rest of Symbian, the operating system used on their N-Series handsets. I'm a big fan of the OS, I find it intuitive & efficient & like the way applications interact with each other seamlessly (for example if you hit save on an SMS containing a song it automatically gets placed in your music folder). However, initially this news was just a case of meet-the-new-boss syndrome.

Now we learn that Nokia plan to release the application as Open Source partly due to pressure from both Windows Mobile, the iPhone & upstart Linux systems. None the less it's a great step in the right direction.

Wot's All This About Then?

Finally settled on a smartphone. After looking at iPhones & Blackberrys I settled on the Nokia N95. I acquired a new one, unlocked of course, from Craigslist and spent the better part of 2 days learning all the features! It will interact with Flickr & Blogger, hence the slightly odd posts below (I'm still learning the Nokia Lifeblog package). All in all an incredibly impressive phone that has many great features (VOIP, 3G, 5MP camera) sadly missing from the contenders.