Comments on: Symbian against Open Source (Google Android)

By: Arun Paul

Arun Paul — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:18:40 +0000

Hi
I love symbian os. And now when it has become an open source, its all the more better for future.

I love symbian, and I wanted to install symbian os in my Samsung Jet 2 mobile phone. I like its look but the problem is its not fun, jet is having an Touch Wiz 2.0 operating system installed in it. Please help if you can.

By: thomas

thomas — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:15:30 +0000

There are many people who cracks theirs iPhone and install non official software. And they are not programmers.
Nokia buyed Trolltech, the company which developed Qtopia Phone Edition and QT (KDE). It’s another windows/widgets framework for linux kernel based systems. It’s a similar way. But QTopia is available under open source licenses and commercial licenses. http://trolltech.com/products/qtopia/phone_edition

By: merajnet

merajnet — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:29:38 +0000

Not just with hardware but with Google Ads as well, and I believe that is what we will see on Android.
Now you are a programmer so you will naturally go for Open Source. Do you believe regular people will do the same?

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:39:02 +0000

It is the newest available firmware version. I am waiting for a new one, since a year now. I have checked two month ago for a new one.
On such a big open source project, there are working companies and not only one. You can already download the kernel and the sdk of android. The license is gpl. There is no source for the android api now, but it is all written in java. If google decides not to publish the source, I can use one of the decompiler for android java bytecode and change everything I want. The API documentation is already available.
I think open source project have more possibilities and capacity, because many people and company are working on the same project. And many of them want a good product. I think the future is open source, and you can mainly make money with hardware and support.

By: merajnet

merajnet — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:54:47 +0000

I don’t agree with you so much. Early firmware issues will forever exist. Just because Android is Open Source it doesn’t mean you can fully edit it or change its actions.
Update your E60 firmware and you might see many changes

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:52:55 +0000

S60 is not a good OS. It even does not allow to copy and paste text from every text field to every text field. And that’s a function of the OS (“windows manager”).
And there is no security in the S60 OS. You can break in every S60 phone, when the bluetooth connection is activated. It’s great.
I am owner of the Nokia E60 and I was enthusiastic, when I have read the specifications. But now I use it, only as an normal mobile phone. Sometimes nobody can call me over the gsm net, because the WLAN connection crashes. Great. It’s not a stable mobile phone.
If the S60 OS were open source, someone (me) would have corrected many errors. (Even birthdays aren’t shown in the calender!!! And I don’t want to use MS Office). And It’s part of the OS, you cannot correct it, it’s closed source.
Now am waiting for a android mobile phone.

By: Meraj Chhaya

Meraj Chhaya — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:13:58 +0000

accelerometer allows motion control, and that is new to the Symbian world…

By: yurri

yurri — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:14:23 +0000

Why there are so much nioise around accelerometer API? As to me accelerometer is a rather simple device which gives access to only three parameters – acceleration vector projections on XYZ axies.

I see almost only key function in this API, something like GetAcceleration(X* double, Y* double, Z* double) or something. Or maybe an event when parameters change.