Comments on: In Defence Of Symbian

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:44:32 +0000

An excellent article, good job.

By: Aman

Aman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:44:49 +0000

Whats your view on linux based OS, http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-the-solution-for-mobile-OS-351.shtml…. i personally feel this is the future……

By: manojlds

manojlds — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:40:34 +0000

I would like to mention an interesting incident. My friend (who’s not into mobiles and stuff) was reading an article about mobile OSs and it mentioned about “failed mobile OS called Symbian.” He said he had never heard of it and formed an impression that it would be a bad OS. And yeah, he owned a Nokia N73. And he loves his phone.

Symbian has never had any kind of image even amongst its users. Somehow Symbian phones never gave the impression that there are OSs running in them. Symbian foundation must first start by changing this.

And of course those who are supposedly in the “know” and never having used a Symbian mobile, comment that its the baddest piece of code created by man. I have been using one Symbian phone or the other for the last 6 years and it has been one great experience. They used to be slow ( man, my N73 is sloooow. But I still love it!) but now things are much more better and talks of it being antiquated are rubbish. I mean, iPhone cant multitask? Come on! And including copy paste functionality was received with much fan fare. Symbian users just had to laugh at that.

Symbian has become a part of my life. And I love every minute of it.

PS: Vaibhav, your comment on WinMo is unfair. Its pretty good and going into WinMo 7 ( after the 6.5), it will surely become lot better. Microsoft have started realizing the ill-effects of being complacent. Symbian and WinMo, to me, are on the same boat. Tried and tested, by treated as crap in front of the iPhones and Androids. Yeah, people using WinMo know what OS they are using. Microsoft had made sure that that happened.

By: suyog

suyog — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:20:27 +0000

@Vaibhav, Nice article, Rightly NDTV has some BB, Iphone fanboys.
In one show “Cellguru” I saw review of E75 and they were saying cons of E75 – lengthy process of Email setup. Also in same review I heard term “GPRS Navigation” Funny.

By: Sunil S

Sunil S — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:25:53 +0000

Symbian has stood against time in the past and will continue doing so in the future. And as far as the irrelevant babbling about Symbian being the weakness of a phone and issues related to ease of usability goes I personally as well as from the experience of other S60 users know very well that we hardly feel like changing our phones and if we do so eventually we go for a higher end Symbian phone only. Symbian is irresistible and addicting and will continue being so in spite of all the competition its gonna face.
New features on other OS’s would only act like a wake up call for symbian, but considering them as threats to the existence of symbian is seriously out of question.

By: Ippar

Ippar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:15:52 +0000

Hi, Vibhav, thank you for an interesting article. I am new to Symbian, hence, it is all the more interesting.

By: Avinash Rathod

Avinash Rathod — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:49:14 +0000

When they say Symbian OS they just mean the UI, that’s what I think. Even though I am a Symbian fanboy there’s no doubt that iPhones UI is exceptional, but guys there is a difference between UI and an OS.Making every thing glossy doesn’t mean its better. 5th Edition has just started to evolve and I believe in a few months it will be competent enough with the iPhone(or may be better).

By: EvilPaul

EvilPaul — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:15:38 +0000

GREAT POST! You brought up a lot of things I have said to friends. “But how different is Symbian actually from say OS X that runs the iPhone?” Very Very true, honestly anytime I show someone something on my phone or say it does something everyone is impressed even people with iPhones. Not to sound stereotypical but it really is the trendy thing to do.

I personally HATE the iPhone menu, I like to organize my apps, hide the things I never use, the stuff that runs in the background and so on.

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:18:36 +0000

Paul, that was again Nokia’s decision and not the OS’s fault. They’ve decided to give the N97 kinetic scrolling.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:27:03 +0000

The problem with Symbian s60 v5 is they are lazy, why would you release a touchscreen software without kinetic scrolling???

Windows Mobile & Android support word suggestion / correction if you want these to go back to symbian then these has to be on S60 v5 or at least on symbian foundation if not good buy symbian, Symbian foundation is the last chance to stay a world leader.

By: songita

songita — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:10:00 +0000

a very well written post Vaibhav.. it seems there is a perpetual lobby against Symbian… the most user friendly, robust and time tested platform is suddenly obsolete.. that sounds really strange..

its time that the symbian family starts propagating the edge Symbian has over others..probably it has been taken for granted for too long.

By: Pratik

Pratik — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:03:36 +0000

Hei vaibhav..thanx..i m also symbian fanboy. U dont want to listen against symbian..& i also dont want to listen or even see against symbian. I had never ever use boring & complicated winmo..or mac or rim..

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:09:25 +0000

Thanks James. In my personal view Win Mo currently is not even a major threat so I left that out. Lets see if the upcoming upgrade brings something substantial.

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:55:25 +0000

Excellent post! I’ll show it to friends… By the way, Windows Mobile ppl bash Symbian too. Adding WinMobile comparison would have been really great.