What happens when you switch from Android to Symbian?
Janne Jalkanen, who has more experience of issues with Symbian/Nokia than most, found out:
[lots of well presented reasons against Android] – Update: Janne points out these are specifc to HTC.
Anyhoo, even if I did say that this never would happen, I’m back with Symbian. I got myself a Nokia E7, which is, especially with Symbian Anna, a pretty spiffy machine. Now, it’s got it’s own irritations (especially on the app development front), and my mind still boggles at the retardedness of the browser. Not shipping a first-class mobile browser at this day and age is simply inexcusable. The Maemo and Meego teams did it, why can’t Symbian? (Rhetorical question, don’t answer. I was there. I know. I still fume occasionally just thinking about it. If I had been given free reign over that topic, heads would’ve rolled many times.)
But Symbian works. And it’ll keep me in business for the next few months or years, doing most of the things you would expect a smartphone to do, until the next suitable phone comes along. It might be Bada, it might be Android, it might be Windows Phone, or it might be something completely different. The mobile world still changes fast, and getting too hung up on strategies and which-ceo-said-what is just a good way of getting yourself a headache. Just get what you need and use it.
Just a minor point: I presented my own irritations on HTC’s particular interpretation of Android. Many of those problems don’t exist on other Android brands. (They’ve got their own problems…)
Janne, indeed you did, and it’s noted now. Given I’m going for a more old school “quote and link” blog here hopefully people will be smart and click through ;-)