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March 06, 2008 Top Classic Smartphones Posted by Kevin at 11:03 AM | Categories: Devices

All about symbian has compiled a list of the Top 10 Classic Smartphones. They compiled the list by looking at what new cutting edge features were introduced in those devices at the time of their release. Of the chosen devices, half of them run various versions of S60! I am especially honored at the Number 1 choice of top most ground breaking Classic Smartphone because it was the first device that I worked on when I started working at Nokia.

Dotsisx over on Symbian-Guru posted that she expected to see devices such as: N82, N91, and the Nokia 6600 on the Top 10.

Mobile devices are advancing so quickly, just look at some of the technology added in devices over the last couple of years makes me stop and think about how far these devices have come. Wifi, VGA resolution video recording and playback, GPS chips built-in, High Resolution Cameras, TV-Out display, native MP3/AAC and other audio codec playback, large internal flash storage, large memory card support, Web browsers with capability to render real webpages not just mobile ones, etc. etc. the list goes on. These things have become standard in current S60 devices but just a few short years ago we could only dream of using them in our mobile devices.

My question to you readers is: What are your Top S60 devices that you think were groundbreaking when they were released and why? Also what new features are you looking forward to trying out on future S60 devices: S60 Widgets, Flash Lite 3, Touch UI, something else?

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What I would like on a future S60 is support for the ogg vorbis music format in the default music player so no 3rd party software is needed. Then again, if that happened then I wouldn't really have any need for S60 anymore either, and instead use a S40 phone seeing how S40 has matured greatly lately. So yeah, not much I look forward to, as I feel the phones of today can do what I want, be it music or java games or whatever.

I guess I do look forward to the day when we see really good cameras in phones. Cameras that are on par with digital cameras in the €200 price range of today. 8mp, good sensor, 3x optical zoom, xenon flash and so on. We seen xenon flash on N82, which is great, but still rare for S60.

My favorite S60 phone is E51. I'm no "business" person, but that phone just looks so damn good, got comfy keys, fast CPU for snappy UI and being very tiny for a smartphone too. A 3.5mm jack and support for ogg and it would have been awesome, though, at least for me.

As for most groundbreaking, I would say the N-Gage. It was also my first S60 phone. While it does have some very noticeable flaws, I was still very impressed by some of the features. Not only the games like Shadowkey or Rifts, but the ability to run 3rd party software was very neat. It was also my first phone where I could use my e-mail which I do a lot nowdays.

So to sum up, for me the perfect S60 phone would a phone that looks like E51, got a 3.5mm jack, support for ogg, and a really good camera with 3x optical zoom and xenon flash. It will probably require something like that for me to buy a new phone, cause I don't really see any reason to upgrade my current E51 for another couple of years.

Hmmm, seems like this turned into a fair amount of text :P

Touch UI, NGage, picoprojector are some features that I am most definitely interested in seeing. But I have to admit that for me, right now, it's not about hardware anymore, but more about software. I want to see better PIM apps on Nokia, I would like to see S60 take a deep look at S40, Windows Mobile, and the iPhone and learn from them. At Symbian-Guru, we have posted a series of "what S60 should learn from" covering basically these 3 platforms. Better software integration is something I am waiting for.

I'm a S60 guy all the way, having had a 6600, a 6682, a N80, an E61 and my latest, an E51, whose only flaw (to me) is overheating.

That said, I should add that as a ProGeek(R) I have used devices that had PalmOS (since the PalmPilot 500), Windows ME (in its various incarnations, since Windows CE) and now I won an iPod Touch at the office.

I agree, S60 is much more versatile, and powerful, but in terms of UI, it lags. Lags way behind the fluid and pleasant interface Apple developed. I wasn't really impressed with the videos of the new S60 Touch interface, Nokia could use a few pointers from Apple.

I got my Nokia 6600 in early 2004. Wow, that's only 4 years ago. I was amazed that the email client could not only handle IMAP, but SSL IMAP and authenticated SMTP for sending. The stock web browser was a bit lame, but loading Opera fixed that up in a jiffy. I even loaded putty onto it, which saved me once right after I landed from a flight and had to ssh in to make a one-liner change in website that I had forgotten to do earlier in the day.

All of that is no big deal now (well, still a big deal on *some* phones) but four years ago it was quite a feat!

A new system in order to send free messages of text. you can unload the program on the www.driillo.net site. It works and it is free!!!!!

Mobile devices are advancing so quickly...Wifi, VGA resolution video recording and playback, GPS chips built-in, High Resolution Cameras, TV-Out display, native MP3/AAC and other audio codec playback, large internal flash storage, large memory card support....u ar rite

Do you think xenon-headlights are the next step to increase safety?

you can unload the program on the www.driillo.net site. It works and it is free if you need it.

I agree, S60 is much more versatile, and powerful.It's sure.

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