Nokia 5230 Smartphone – Symbian Advantage
When buying a multimedia phone most of the people look for features such as Camera, Music Player, 3G, Wifi etc. but very few enquire for the Operating System which is the most important aspect. Cellphone companies take benefit of this and do the marketing telling high megapixel cameras and other multimedia features.
If your cellphone is based on a operating system such as Symbian, Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Linux or Android then it is a true smartphone with support for 3rd party applications. So, next time when you will shop for a phone don’t forget to check whether it is a cellphone or a smartphone.
Smartphones are smarter so they are usually costlier. From long time i have seen that Nokia is the only cellphone maker which is able to offer smartphones in affordable price range. Nokia smartphones are based on Symbian OS. You may remember the Nokia bestseller, 6600 which was based on Symbian S60v2 OS. Later on came Symbian S60v3. Nokia 95 and N73 are based on it.
Nokia launched its first touchscreen smartphone 5800 XpressMusic based on Symbian S60v5. So, Nokia touch phones are based on Symbian S60v5. The other phones based on this OS are Nokia N97, N97 Mini, X6, 5530 and the newly launched cheapest Nokia touchscreen smartphone, 5230. Samsung and Sony Ericsson also have Symbian touch phones but they belong to high end market. Samsung Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio (Idou) are also based on Symbian S60v5.
The biggest advantage of Symbian OS is support for 3rd party applications. There are thousand of useful applications and games based on it, which can make your day to day life much easier. The applications range from web browsers, video players, audio players , utilities , internet apps etc. My first smartphone was Nokia N-GAGE QD based on Symbian S60v1 and since then i have never used a non smartphone. Currently i have Nokia N82 and I’m planning to get my hands on Nokia 5230 as soon as it is made available for purchase.
December 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am
The S60 is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It is NOT the OS itself. !!
February 25th, 2010 at 8:03 am
I’d like to correct you here Theo..
S60 (actually symbian) IS an OS..
U r just too unbrainful to understand it..
savvy..
March 8th, 2010 at 2:52 am
I support ishan. S60 is itself a OS. Its so easy to understand. if u say linux is a OS but ubuntu is not, it will be nothing but a ignorance!
March 25th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
hello ubuntu itself is just a linux
April 1st, 2010 at 4:49 pm
watz the foolish fight goin ther?
symbian, ubuntu, linux all os itself.
June 19th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
NO! Symbian is a game! (making things worse) LoL
July 9th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
I’m sorry but I’m a Ubuntu user…
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Linux is just the kernel, and Ubuntu and the other distributions like fedora, mandriva, slackware, Debian…..are OS. I can say that i’m a “Linux” user but is wrong. I’m a GNU/linux user and my OS is Ubuntu.
try it
July 9th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Will the 5230 open word docs and excel sheets?
July 27th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Linux is the os , Ubuntu is just a distribution . Like windows , For windows 95 / 98 / and even me , the operating system was DOS , windows was some think like X in Linux .
August 9th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Well, if anyone that said S60 is an OS in itself would look at the specs sheet of any Symbian smartphone, they would see that, for example 5230 runs Symbian 9.4 (which is the OS) with a S60v5 UI. S60 is an UI developed by Nokia on top of Symbian 9.4 long before they acquired Symbian. So, just like UIQ and MOAP, S60 is an user interface on top of Symbian OS.
September 26th, 2010 at 3:31 am
no man!! s69080 is a wallpaper. hahaha
November 28th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
hi there
i hv bought nokia 5230, i need to know how can i lock my memory card or some of the folders in it?
thnks for your time
January 15th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
hey………its a too good symbian smartphone.. n the
January 15th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
hey………its a too good symbian smartphone..n, hey people symbian is a smartphone OS n series60 is a software platform which is designed n liscenced under nokia…….symbian OS is liscenced & manufactured under symbian corp.