{"id":1644,"date":"2008-11-27T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2008-11-27T23:23:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T23:23:25","slug":"the-fun-of-switching-symbian-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/the-fun-of-switching-symbian-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Fun&#8217; Of Switching Symbian Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that was easy back in the early days of Symbian OS (when it was on the Psion Series 5 machines) was movign data from one machine to another. It&#8217;s not as easy with the modern smartphone, as I found out moving from the N95 8GB to the newer N85.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s impossible (for security and DRM reasons) to simply move all your applications over from one device to another, so I have to dive into my personally maintained archive of SISx and JAR installation files to put back on the applications that I use a lot. Any progress in applications like Car Jack Streets or Astraware Soltiaire has to be left behind (unless you are a really serious hacking power user), which in some cases can mean you might not return to the application, or be hesitant to move over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutsymbian.com\/news\/item\/Nokia_N85-part_1-Getting_Everything_Into_The_Device.php\">The full article is up on All About Symbian,<\/a> and I&#8217;ll be doing a more in-depth series of review articles over the next week or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that was easy back in the early days of Symbian OS (when it was on the Psion Series 5 machines) was movign data from one machine to another. It&#8217;s not as easy with the modern smartphone, as I found out moving from the N95 8GB to the newer N85. It&#8217;s impossible (for security and DRM reasons) to simply move all your applications over from one device to another, so I have to dive into my personally maintained archive of SISx and JAR installation files to put back on the applications that I use a lot. Any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[241,544,545,546],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-all-about-symbian","tag-n85","tag-n95-8gb","tag-transfer","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}