Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
"Won't let me manage my Symbian phone" -- in what way?
In pretty much any way!
It's an N82 (sort of N95-ish in many ways). I can connect it via USB to have access to the phone memory (but not the memory card, bizarrely, so I can't pull photos off without putting the card into a card reader). I can manage some basic file management stuff using bluetooth, but if I want to access my addressbook, SMS messages, etc then I'm out of luck. And as for actually doing the sort of things I still have a Windows box for (like firmware upgrades etc) then no chance!
When I've looked at Linux apps (eg gnokki) they've either been unable to connect to the phone at all or been unable to do anything remotely useful.
This coupled with the fact that the phone has a damn good camera and some pretty decent hardware all round, but the software is weak in many other areas; predictive text functionality that came out of the ark, painfully slow operation when more than a limited number of SMS messages are present (currently takes about 30sec to open the messaging app).
I'm looking at Samsung Pixon 12 (camera matters a lot to me) but I've not confirmed that is Linux friendly yet (one reason I haven't upgraded yet). Or maybe Sony Ericsson (same comments about Linux - not really checked yet).
It seems odd, however, that Nokia don't have a native Linux client. They have a lot of Linux devs who presumably have Nokia phones, surely this must frustrate them too?
You could go for a Nokia phone, as long as it's not running Symbian.
The N82 has a good 5MP camera (by good I mean decent Xenon flash etc, not just high MP count for a 2-yr-old phone), although limited in software camera features compared with the GF's SE phone (which is much newer). I have some really great photos (and videos) of my nieces and other people and places that I only have because I had my phone with me in situations that I'd ever have had a camera otherwise.