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>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 "Symbi
by 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