Never go for any of those slow Nokia CR@P!!! Any Sony Ericsson will be a better thing to own. I have 10 years of exp with nokia phones and a lil less with Symbian series. Nokia always gives a lot less for the money you pay, plus you will always have that 'something is missing' kind of itch with nokia phones. Believe me, i have gone through all this. I was a symbian series fan mainly because of its 'add-features-anytime-using-software' facility,but dude that comes on a price of no-so-good music quality, bulk and crappy, slow processors that is never up to mark no matter what device you take.
I also developed some apps for symbian os for personal use, its quiet hard to program too. If programmability is a concern then go for a Windows Mobile instead. atleast you can program using .NET framework, which is quiet easy to program in comparison to Symbia C++ platform. Also the ericsson platform supports some of the latest and the coolest JSRs from J2ME platform that makes SE a good platform for java apps development, and believe me java apps on a SE phone runs at least 5 times faster than a nokia. I didn't missed most of the apps that i use to use on my cr@p Noki@ 3230, when i recently switched to SE W660i. I have a full features english dictionary, the gmail and yahoo go e-mail apps, an e-book reader in which i can read all my harry potter pir@ted e books comfortably, Opera mini 4.1 beta browser (although the inbuilt Netfront is good too) and the default ones that come with phone.Plus, i now have MOrange thats a really cool push chat app, with a cool UI and support for yahoo, gtalk, msn, aol etc. So overall, my software bundle is good for all my work.
So if the main concern is great music player, radio, great camera, snappy processor with animated, funky looking, responsive UI, cool java software platform support, and no 'itchy' feeling
, go for a SE phone!
SONY ERICSSON ROCKS!!!!
All these are my personal comments and are result of my great frustration with nokia phones, in general. So no offence to anyone.
Now i am feeling a lil better
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