Buying a new Symbian powered mobile

Now with symbian officially dead, is buying a Symbian running mobile a good idea?
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The only reson for buying a symbian handset now would be if photography on your phone was your biggest priority
The 808 is still by far the best camera ever mounted on a mobile device, with the N8 running a notable 2nd and the rest pretty much of a muchness (tho the 920 isn't so bad if you can live with the LED flash), it will be interesting to see what the SGS4 camera brings
Howeverwhilst symbain is still being supported, new apps will be few and far between and other devices offer faster, slicker interfaces, better browsing experiences etc

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Hmm. If you want something that can store a lot of text messages, you're going to want to look at a phone that runs Symbian S60 because they allow storage of messages on a memory card inserted into the phone while older S40 phones do not. And you're not going to find (m)any S60 phones under the £100 mark. About the cheapest one I can think of is the 6120 classic and that's going at about £160.
Now, if you are willing to store less messages in the phone and transfer them to your PC from time to time, you could get by with an S40 phone such as the 2760 (clamshell, £68) or 2600 classic (candybar, £79).
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Fix my old one or buy a new one?

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Symptoms:
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Here're my thoughts on the N97 v N900..
The N97 is over a year old. It is Nokia's flagship phone.. and it is WOEFULLY poor.. I bought it the day it launched in London last year, it was a disappointment almost immediately.. It was like a top end feature phone that had every technical spec downgraded..
It's internal app space is SO limited, I have about 8 megs free.. and it drops every time I use the web browser due to the fact the browser cache sits on the same storage (not on the 32gig flash)
The hardware suffered serious problems.. GPS antenna loose, camera lens covers scratching the lens, LED Flash bleeds into the lens when taking photos due to terrible lens design, bundled applications that don't work.. ever.. like Quick Office (has never worked.. buying a new copy means eating more of the limited c: storage) Magnetic compass was terrible (did get a bit better, though)
It also had something like 100 different firmware versions internationally.. The UK version lagged severely.. it even made the Guardian papers.. terrible phone..
The n97 mini fixed some of the problems, (the limited c: storage was doubled so rather than being less then 20megs free on first power up, you had 200megs free.. but still) but it lacked the features that were supposed to make it good.. like the 32gig storage and fm transmitter iirc
Now.. the N900.. this is my day to day phone..Again, I bought it the day it launched in the UK.. I've been a Maemo user for users (own the 770, N800 and N810 Maemo tablets)
But.. Maemo is end of life, MeeGo is the future of development.
Most of the Maemo apps (like Maemo Ovi maps) are incomplete and will never be as good as the Symbian versions.. Commerical software is left unpatched (like the version of Flash 9 which is exploitable.. no bug fixes there!)
Nokia have said Meego won't be coming to the N900 (officially)..
This is different to other major manufacturers.. like SonyEricsson bringing Android 2.1 to the X10, HTC bringing Android 2.2 to the Desire and other devices, Motorola bringing Android 2.2 to the Milestone / Droid..
Top end handsets *GET* new oses these days.. Nokia handsets, don't.. infact they seem to get mothballed soon after launch..
So..
I wouldn't buy the N97, it was terrible.. even by Nokia's own admission..
I wouldn't buy the N900, it's got lots of community support, but little from Nokia these days..
I know this sounds bitter, buut.. you can't help feeling let down.. top end devices need more investment from their manufacturers..
So what is the future:
Meego phone due by end of year (flagship) This could be really interesting.. Remember the N900 is not a flagship phone.. the Meego phone will be .. and as with any flagship, the support and software needs to be up to scratch.. Ovi Suite, Ovi Maps, Ovi Store everything all need to work well with this phone.. if they don't then its kind of pointless.. Ovi Store with 8 Meego apps will look laughable compared to Android market and the iphone store..
Symbian^3 on the N8. This will be a flagship phone too.. (erm? isn't the Meego phone later this year going to replace that) So.. this will be a very short lived flagship phone running Symbian^3.. possibly the only handset to do so... since all new ones will be Symbian^4... So, this feels a bit short lived.. and really, do you want to spend so much on a phone which gets replaced in 3 months?
I'm not buying another Symbian phone.. I will be getting the next Meego phone.. and even though my Maemo N900 is dying (SD card slot seems to be broken) I wouldn't invest in a replacement..
If you have to buy Nokia now, get a really cheap one.. then buy a better "next generation" one later..

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