[eriqcook]

Of course not. I could never see this coming. Symbian would be a step below Windows Mobile AND Palm OS. Having a Palm running Symbian would turn it into more of a cell-phone than PDA-Phone. What were they thinking?

[eriqcook]

Of course not. I could never see this coming. Symbian would be a step below Windows Mobile AND Palm OS. Having a Palm running Symbian would turn it into more of a cell-phone than PDA-Phone. What were they thinking?

[Jonathon Watkins]

Originally Posted by martin_ayton

I think this may have been raised in a 'weekend' item a few months back.

Bingo. Darius wrote up a decent post about it. It's just one of those funny 'two countries divided by a common language' type of things. ;-)

PMs are also a good way of pointing out any possible typos, rather than cluttering the forums. :wink:

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Originally Posted by Dazz

Really? I had no idea that was the case.

Yeah. It was Darius that had an off-topic post several months ago on the differences betweek UK and US English. Actually, even before that, Darius and I were in an IM chat session when I called him out on the same thing (I saw a post of his that treated a company name as a plural noun) and then he educated me on how they speak in Australia.

I tell you what. I saw the title of the post and immediately thought the same thing again until I saw who posted it.

Globalization is a beautiful thing, ain't it?

Anyway, back on topic, I can't see Palm ever going with Symbian. I don't see any value proposition that this would hold for Palm. It's a weaker platform than the Palm OS with far fewer applications written for it. That is UNLESS Palm were considering getting into the more traditional cellphone market, creating basic cellphones with very basic cellphone functionality.

[dazz]

Actually, the Symbian OS, at least the UIQ variant is quite powerful. I reviewed a Sony Ericsson P900 some time ago and thought the OS was quite decent and well suited to the form factor. You would be amazed at the jog dial. You can scroll it up and down and press it in but can also click it forward and backward for additional one-handed capabilities.

Still prefer the WM OS but Symbian's UIQ is no slouch.

[sub_tex]

Originally Posted by eriqc

Having a Palm running Symbian would turn it into more of a cell-phone than PDA-Phone.

Not sure what symbian phones you've been using, but the latest high end nokias as well as the UIQ ones from SE all can pull off everything my treo can, minus the touchscreen specific things.

Nokia's s60 UI is known and loved by many. The UIQ UI isn't so widespread, mainly because other than the SE devices, who else uses it?

Personallly I think Palm was looking to go with s60 since it has the widest application base. But s60 is Nokia's thing, not Symbian.

And I can see Nokia saying no to them on licensing it.

[bbarker]

Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai

Globalization is a beautiful thing, ain't it?

And thank goodness you spelled "globalization" with a "z", US fashion.

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai

Yeah. It was Darius that had an off-topic post several months ago on the differences betweek UK and US English. Actually, even before that, Darius and I were in an IM chat session when I called him out on the same thing (I saw a post of his that treated a company name as a plural noun) and then he educated me on how they speak in Australia.

You know what? A lot of my recent posts treat companies as single entities just to please the majority of readers who read this site. Pull me aside and talk to me in person, and you'll notice that I still speak English the good old-fashioned Australian way.

And why have I done the former? Because no amount of off-topic posts will avoid threads such as this where someone drags it off-topic to talk about some grammatical point. No offense directed at you, Dazz. I just find it funny. :P Since one of us has to bend to conform to societal standards, I figured I'd do it.

[dazz]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

No offense directed at you, Dazz. I just find it funny. :P Since one of us has to bend to conform to societal standards, I figured I'd do it.

None taken, Darius.

Sorry about derailing this thread with such trivia, but I had no idea that there had already been numerous discussions about doing this and that Aussies use the plural form this way.

So, anyone want to talk about the ridiculous theory of Palm using Symbian OS? :wink: