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JISHOU, HUNAN — I bought a Nokia e63 two years ago. It runs the Symbian OS. I’ve been very happy with it. No nasty surprises. No crashes. No touch-and-gone touchscreens, like on my defunct Palm Treo 680. It’s attractive and functional, and most importantly, reliable.
So, what has Nokia decided to do? Continue to develop Symbian, and make great Symbian mobile phones? Of course not! It has decided to abandon its OS, as Palm did PalmOS, and ally itself with the monster of Redmond — Microsoft.
Goodbye, Symbian. Hello, Windows Mobile. Just fucking great.
Sure, it’s not the end of the world. Even though Palm phones no longer use PalmOS, loyal users and developers keep the phones functional. (Not that it helps my Treo. It gave up receiving calls, then its touchscreen gave up accepting touches. “I vant to be alone,” it seemed to be saying.) So, I can expect the Symbian community will keep my e63 working and useful until I finally throw in the towel, and buy another phone.
Whether it will be a Nokia remains to be seen. Maybe I can eventually forgive Nokia for partnering with Micro$oft. Maybe it’s good market sense, but it’s not fair to the Symbian users. It’s not that I hate Windows with a passion (well, sometimes I do). I just enjoy using something that isn’t Windows-based.
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JISHOU, HUNAN — My cherished Palm Treo had a stroke on Sunday. It started acting flaky on Friday, recovered somewhat on Saturday, but ended up partly paralyzed by noon Sunday.
It could send, but it couldn’t receive, reliably, anything. No texts. No phone calls. Except when it wanted to. It was like dealing with a patient from a House M.D. episode.
One friend thought I was mad at her, because I wasn’t responding to her calls or messages. Another thought I was seriously ill. The first called a mutual friend, who assured her I was not angry at anyone. The other eventually caught up with me on QQ.
The flakiness started Friday. People were complaining they were texting me, but not getting my usual prompt response. After pulling out the SIM card, buffing the contacts and blowing some air into the Treo, I got it to receive for about 10 minutes, reliably, and longer, sporadically. Some people could reach me, while others couldn’t. Frustrating.
I’ve had the thing for about three years, and it’s about five years old, ancient by cell phone standards. It was beginning to exhibit some other annoying behaviors, like refusing to charge unless I connected it just so, and arranged it on the desk just right. If I bumped it too hard, it would shut off the radio. Occasionally, the touch screen would not respond, but after I pressed on the entire surface, it would work again.
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