It’s time to change my mobile phone again. I don’t have anything against my Nokia E75, which lasted well.. but the choices I made back in this post (Not a camera phone but a business phone) have changed a little.
The Symbian platform hasn’t taken off, and with the Symbian Foundation’s absorption back into the Nokia fold, I don’t hold out much hope of this actually being anything more than a dormant platform.
So it’s time to look at a new platform, and I’m not a big fan of Apple, it being a fairly closed development environment, so am looking at Android. Android has substantially developed, especially with a large amount of FroYo (Android 2.2) phones now available, performance and battery life is quite good.
I’m also looking at the HTC Desire HD, as this seems a good platform at the moment. I know that as soon as I make the decision, there are going to be several dual-core phones out there, but you can’t wait forever.. (otherwise there might be rumors of a quad ARM core device, which would be insane..)
The other reason for going with HTC Unfortunately, we could not get stock quote 2498.TW this time. is that although the device is currently Android 2.2 (FroYo), there’s a rumored upgrade to 2.3 (Gingerbread) in the works. Also HTC don’t lock down their boot roms, so there’s a good community of developers for the platform on xda-developers.com.