With smart phones becoming common place, nokia too has changed its strategy. Even lower range Phones like the C3 now come with great business features like push mail, chat and a nice qwerty keypad.
I have been attracted to smart phones for quite some time now but have resisted buying one. The main reason being that none of the phones are really open. I want to wait till there is a affordable phone on the market that lets you change the os to whatever you want say in the 15k range. Shouldn't be hard considering that you can get a net book at that price and fully use it as a phone by adding a data card. T
here are some phones running ubuntu & meebo available.. But they are too costly as of now. So till that happens i am squeezing all the juice i can out of my nokia 3110C.
I have added a host of apps to it to make it in as near a smart phone as possible for this basic piece of hardware and restricted and old os.
For browsing the web, i use opera mini 4. Sadly the new ver5 with tabbed browsing does not work on this phone. For email, i use gmail's mobile app which allows me to configure multiple email accounts.. Even google apps accounts.
The only issue with this is that i cant send attachments but i just use opera when i need to do that. I also have a nifty qr code reader app that works as well as on any smart phone. I have a variety of games setup when i need to while away time while waiting for someone. Whats more i can read on the web too!
The only app i havent been able to find is a pdf book reader. So i just use another app that of convert and package e books as jar files. So all in all, my current needs seem to be pretty much fulfilled.
In fact even this blog is written using the same phone!
I have been attracted to smart phones for quite some time now but have resisted buying one. The main reason being that none of the phones are really open. I want to wait till there is a affordable phone on the market that lets you change the os to whatever you want say in the 15k range. Shouldn't be hard considering that you can get a net book at that price and fully use it as a phone by adding a data card. T
here are some phones running ubuntu & meebo available.. But they are too costly as of now. So till that happens i am squeezing all the juice i can out of my nokia 3110C.
I have added a host of apps to it to make it in as near a smart phone as possible for this basic piece of hardware and restricted and old os.
For browsing the web, i use opera mini 4. Sadly the new ver5 with tabbed browsing does not work on this phone. For email, i use gmail's mobile app which allows me to configure multiple email accounts.. Even google apps accounts.
The only issue with this is that i cant send attachments but i just use opera when i need to do that. I also have a nifty qr code reader app that works as well as on any smart phone. I have a variety of games setup when i need to while away time while waiting for someone. Whats more i can read on the web too!
The only app i havent been able to find is a pdf book reader. So i just use another app that of convert and package e books as jar files. So all in all, my current needs seem to be pretty much fulfilled.
In fact even this blog is written using the same phone!
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