Smartphone Decision for Young Programmer?

Re:Smartphone Decision for Young Programmer? by etfb on Monday August 11, 2008 @11:04PM (#273638)

I had a Nokia N70 before I got my N95, and the N95 is definitely must faster (less "laggy") but still not perfect. The quality is fine, and I can't think of many features it doesn't have. If you want a good, solid, reliable phone, the N95 is the best thing I've ever seen from Nokia, and I place Nokia at the top of the list for mobiles.

As for something you can hack -- I don't know. I gather there are options for the Nokias, but I've never got around to trying them. I'd avoid MS and Apple on principle (the totalitarianism, as you say, is a deal breaker) and Palm is a bit overpriced and underpowered; they're really stuck in the 1990s, the poor dears. What does that leave? Not much.

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Re:Smartphone Decision for Young Programmer? by alnayyir on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @02:12AM (#273760)

While I'm not a partisan, and value trying to be as even-handed as possible in evaluating situations, I hand Microsoft the torch in the case of mobile. They've been far more fair, open, and straight-forward with Windows Mobile and the APIs.

Bonus points that I use Windows dev platforms on a regular basis, so it would be fairly trivial for me to deploy on a windows mobile phone.

Still bouncing around the ideas I'm seeing.

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