[Sussex] The gadget show?

[John D.]

Wotcha list,

Caught a programme on channel 5 that I hadn't come across last night.

The "gadet show". Yes a fair amount of it was about windows based 
technology, but one of the articles was about smartphones/3G etc. The 
article went on to explain that most of the "3G experience" in the UK is 
a load of pooh, having compared it to the kind of service available 
elsewhere (particularly Japan). Then it went on to explain that you can 
also get a "docomo" like service here, but only using Open source software.

They went on to use one of these 
<http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,58708,00.html> and then explained that 
you'd need to "bash the credit card" a little, and although didn't 
really elaborate, they were clearly using opera mobile 
<http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=symbian>, they also 
stated that the phone uses the Symbian OS, I wasn't aware that symbian 
was open source? maybe someone could clarify that.

I'm thinking of seeing about whether it may be worth getting the mobile 
oper browser installed on my XDA2s though, even though I'd only be on a 
dialup type service, because proper mobile email would be a total bonus 
(ha, radio 2's weekday overnight shows can "stand by"! :-D ), because 
while I've managed to get it working, it's quite a "pallaver" to use 
(and of course, I wouldn't dream of trying send an e-mail while driving 
my truck :-) )!.

Anyway, "the gadget show" was quite interesting, and you might want to 
keep an eye out to give it a look over.

regards

John D.