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I worked at Nokia starting in about 2004. Looking back on my career, one of the single greatest feelings of accomplishment was getting a Hello World application

by kevsim 6y ago

I worked at Nokia starting in about 2004. Looking back on my career, one of the single greatest feelings of accomplishment was getting a Hello World application to run on Symbian/S60. I thought I knew C++ going in, but I wasn't prepared for two phase constructors and the 6 files you'd need to draw a simple list view on the screen. Felt amazing once it worked though!

QuercusMax 6y ago
I totally know what you mean - the sense of satisfaction and joy when you get even the most basic "end-to-end" functionality working in a new environment is hard to match.
- ngcc_hk 6y ago
  It still is; try blink or counter on a new fpga board.
secondcoming 6y ago
Lol. At least you guys had actual phones to work with. Until we became Nokia all we had was a techview UI shell running on H2, or later, H4 boards that would boot an MMC card. Of course, when we became Nokia we got the flashing stations and access to Phoenix. Only a particular part of the company ever saw phones that were in development and you needed special access to get into that part of the building.
- mightyscouse 6y ago
  First job out of uni was writing device drivers for Motorola Symbian devices on H4 boards (I want to say LDDs and PDDs?). Codewarrior or carbide if you fancied a reboot every 2 mins, 40 minute turn-around times to flash and boot your software, boards without working SD and having to log to the screen ...I do not miss those days at all. BlackBerry was like a bloody dream.
- kevsim 6y ago
  I also went through a dev board phase later on when I was working on Maemo, etc. but they took it easy on me when I was fresh out of school and let me have real production hardware
- app4soft 6y ago
  > Only a particular part of the company ever saw phones that were in development and you needed special access to get into that part of the building. Oh, I remember it was near impossible to get access to service manuals Level 1 & 2 (just for understand how to repair/replace few parts on my N82), and fully impossible get its Level 3 & 4.[0] AIKON service centers had monopoly on repairing devices. [0] http://www.s-manuals.com/phone/nokia_n82 http://www.s-manuals.com/phone/nokia_n82

by kevsim 6y ago

QuercusMax 6y ago

I totally know what you mean - the sense of satisfaction and joy when you get even the most basic "end-to-end" functionality working in a new environment is hard to match.

ngcc_hk 6y ago
It still is; try blink or counter on a new fpga board.

secondcoming 6y ago

Lol. At least you guys had actual phones to work with. Until we became Nokia all we had was a techview UI shell running on H2, or later, H4 boards that would boot an MMC card. Of course, when we became Nokia we got the flashing stations and access to Phoenix. Only a particular part of the company ever saw phones that were in development and you needed special access to get into that part of the building.

mightyscouse 6y ago
First job out of uni was writing device drivers for Motorola Symbian devices on H4 boards (I want to say LDDs and PDDs?). Codewarrior or carbide if you fancied a reboot every 2 mins, 40 minute turn-around times to flash and boot your software, boards without working SD and having to log to the screen ...I do not miss those days at all. BlackBerry was like a bloody dream.
kevsim 6y ago
I also went through a dev board phase later on when I was working on Maemo, etc. but they took it easy on me when I was fresh out of school and let me have real production hardware
app4soft 6y ago
> Only a particular part of the company ever saw phones that were in development and you needed special access to get into that part of the building. Oh, I remember it was near impossible to get access to service manuals Level 1 & 2 (just for understand how to repair/replace few parts on my N82), and fully impossible get its Level 3 & 4.[0] AIKON service centers had monopoly on repairing devices. [0] http://www.s-manuals.com/phone/nokia_n82 http://www.s-manuals.com/phone/nokia_n82