So as part of the new job I needed to get a new phone. Since I’m not a big fan of Microsoft Windows Mobile, I wanted something different as a platform. Since the only real extensible platform left is Symbian (especially since Palm has now a choice of platform, both Windows Mobile and PalmOS), I ended up choosing a Nokia.
I prefer an operating system that has multiple customers/partners as it’s more likely that it is going to be around as a viable platform for longer. Both Nokia and SonyEricsson are committed to the Symbian platform, and it also has a good development community so lots of applications are also available. All I needed was a phone that had all the features to make a decent single mobile platform, without all the combined disadvantages of the proverbial spork (being not particularly good at either thing).
Anyhow, since then I have now got a Nokia N95 which has a good collection of features, (a decent camera, GPS, accelerometers, and good screen and memory), and have now added to it a collection of applications, including the one that takes the GPS fix and encodes it in the EXIF images taken on the camera. The updated Nokia Maps application is quite good, and the RoadSync application from DataViz even lets me access the office Exchange email on the road too. (All that’s needed is a decent data package from your mobile provider). There’s also Wavelog, which I am using to write this post, so I can now take my phone with me everywhere, and even create blog entries off-line. (this might keep me quiet on the Eurostar for a while under the channel to test it, in a couple of weeks).
