CAN THE XDA2 RUN ON SYMBIAN OS

[INCEY]

I AM DEBATING WHICH PDA TO PURCHASE EITHER AN XDA2 OR THE P900, I PREFER THE XDA2 BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE ALOT MORE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON THE SYMBIAN OS. SO I WAS WONDERING IF I COULD RUN THE SYMBIAN OS ON THE XDA2. APPOLOGIES IF THIS IS A DUMB QUESTION, IM NEW TO THIS! PS DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN BUY A QTEK2020:?

[abbas]

I suspect you are coming from a Symbian background. Buy XDA2. Inspite of all what you might have heard, MS Windows Mobile beats any other Mobile OS. I talk as a person who had gone through all there is, Psion 5mx, m130, Treo 180, Sony Clie NR70V, Ipaq, XDA etc. I actually prefer XDA1 to P900. WM may have fewer number of software titles (though I doubt that strongly) but it has the most EXCITING collection.

[bodstrup]

Symbian devices has one huge advantage - they don't loose their programs when the battery goes dead.

Also, the OS is by far more stable than Windows and generally more easy to learn and maintain.

But, unfortunately, many of the exciting applications as Abbas points out are running Windows Mobile, so this is where I am at the moment.

I would love a Symbian PDA with XDA II capabilities, perhaps the next Nokia Communicator. At the moment I very satisfied with my XDA II

Abbas: I love your tag line, I quite agree, Palestine has been used for decades as an excuse to commit violence. I wish they could come to an agreement down there.

Regards
Michael

[abbas]

You got my tilt correct. Symbian may be everything that you have said, but I found windows mobiles softwares better, and I also hate symbian phone makers lack of standard. Nokia or siemens will use multimedia card, while SonyErricson stuck to ultra propietary memory stick duo. If you change from XDA to HP928, to MPx200 or e100, most of the accessories you have invested in (memory cards, wifi or bluetooth cards etc) will continue to be useful.

[Rudegar]

i'm almost 100% sure that if sony makes a mw2003 pda/phone then it too will use memory stick it's their std they will never stop hunting you hhmpf i mean pushing it :P

[Jargon]

Symbian devices has one huge advantage - they don't loose their programs when the battery goes dead.
That's a limitation of the hardware, not the OS. There could be a Pocket PC device that uses 100% nonvolatile memory instead of battery-powered RAM. But that device would be more expensive.

[kevin.beecher]

i have had 3 three years using a symbian system the wm is much more user friendly and interacts with my desktop a lot easier i would be slow going back to a symbian system 2 of my colegues at work have p800 and they love the xda and one of them is about to change to a xda ( the otherrs too tight ).

regards kevin b