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My plan is: For my next phone, I'll leave iOS and get a garbage feature phone (Symbian, or something). This will be when I get my next iPad, which will have 4G

by berntb 14y ago

My plan is: For my next phone, I'll leave iOS and get a garbage feature phone (Symbian, or something). This will be when I get my next iPad, which will have 4G (I'll also need a small iPod for music). I will just suffer adding phone numbers and writing SMS the old fashioned way -- along with the week of battery life...

anoncow 14y ago
The week of battery life is more like two weeks on nokia feature phones. I really liked Nokia until they became what they have become nowadays.
shawn-butler 14y ago
Symbian phones will be getting pretty rare won't they? Especially in the US where they never had much of a market to begin with. The 808 PureView was announced to be the last Symbian phone some time ago. Vertu the "luxury" brand that Nokia sold to private equity has dropped Symbian as well. They were the last ones producing Symbian products of which I am aware. The Vertu Ti is the first Android handset produced by Nokia actually. A titanium case and reuses some of the internals of the Lumia 920.
networked 14y ago
>I'll leave iOS and get a garbage feature phone (Symbian, or something) It's funny that you say that because as a long-time Symbian user I remember when "Symbian" was pretty much synonymous with "smartphone", at least in my part of the world. As for your idea, well, I'm afraid devices that run recent editions of Symbian (Symbian^3/Anna/Belle, Symbian Series 60 5th Edition) usually don't deliver very good battery life. You'd have better luck with an S60 3rd Edition phone, especially a business-oriented one like the Nokia E72 or the E5 (I own the latter and can recommend it for sheer repairability -- see my earlier HN comment [1]) but it still won't run for a week on a single charge like Nokia's grayscale featurephones do; it's closer to 3-4 days with a fair amount of web browsing with Opera Mini and using GMail. On the plus side, I've written Python programs both for and on my E5 (the QWERTY keyboard is pretty nice) and you'll be able to do the same, unlike with a featurephone. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215787 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215787
gurkendoktor 14y ago
If you are on a Mac, you could check if the emitSMS dashboard widget still works. That's what I used to do in the OS X 10.4 & Nokia dumbphone days :) - write SMS from my Mac whenever I had it running.
- berntb 14y ago
  Thanks for the tip, but nothing will happen until at least the next iPad is released, since my present iPad only has wifi.

by berntb 14y ago

anoncow 14y ago

The week of battery life is more like two weeks on nokia feature phones. I really liked Nokia until they became what they have become nowadays.

shawn-butler 14y ago

Symbian phones will be getting pretty rare won't they? Especially in the US where they never had much of a market to begin with. The 808 PureView was announced to be the last Symbian phone some time ago. Vertu the "luxury" brand that Nokia sold to private equity has dropped Symbian as well. They were the last ones producing Symbian products of which I am aware. The Vertu Ti is the first Android handset produced by Nokia actually. A titanium case and reuses some of the internals of the Lumia 920.

networked 14y ago

>I'll leave iOS and get a garbage feature phone (Symbian, or something) It's funny that you say that because as a long-time Symbian user I remember when "Symbian" was pretty much synonymous with "smartphone", at least in my part of the world. As for your idea, well, I'm afraid devices that run recent editions of Symbian (Symbian^3/Anna/Belle, Symbian Series 60 5th Edition) usually don't deliver very good battery life. You'd have better luck with an S60 3rd Edition phone, especially a business-oriented one like the Nokia E72 or the E5 (I own the latter and can recommend it for sheer repairability -- see my earlier HN comment [1]) but it still won't run for a week on a single charge like Nokia's grayscale featurephones do; it's closer to 3-4 days with a fair amount of web browsing with Opera Mini and using GMail. On the plus side, I've written Python programs both for and on my E5 (the QWERTY keyboard is pretty nice) and you'll be able to do the same, unlike with a featurephone. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215787 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215787

gurkendoktor 14y ago

If you are on a Mac, you could check if the emitSMS dashboard widget still works. That's what I used to do in the OS X 10.4 & Nokia dumbphone days :) - write SMS from my Mac whenever I had it running.

berntb 14y ago
Thanks for the tip, but nothing will happen until at least the next iPad is released, since my present iPad only has wifi.