Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian
Hey, S60 owners, have you had this nagging sense over the past year or two that you’re somehow getting slighted by Nokia, but you haven’t been able to put your finger on why? No worries, we’ve figured it out: it’s the calculator. Nokia’s mainstream dumbphone platform has featured a far better and more capable built-in calculator app than S60 for a while at this time, which really doesn’t make a whole heck of a lot of sense; granted, you can get better ones from third-party developers, but the point is you shouldn’t have to. Thankfully, Nokia agrees, and they’ve started to toy around with the idea of replacing the S60 calc with its little brother’s — a relatively easy process, since the latter is written in Java. On one hand, it’d be a shame to see a core S60 app move from native code to Java, but on the other hand, if it’s a better app and the JVM is transparent, who really cares? Anyway, the ported app is chilling in Nokia’s Beta Labs as we speak, just waiting for customer feedback before the higher-ups make a judgment call on whether to integrate it into future S60 releases. The power’s in your hands, people, so you may as well take advantage.
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