During the beta trial phase several thousand friends and members of the Symbian community are being invited to test and give feedback on the foundation’s developer website. The site contains a rich developer offering including platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums, as well as access to the Software Development Kit (SDK), Mercurial Source Configuration Management (SCM), Bugzilla defect reporting and issue tracking tool, various other tools, documents and FAQs.

The beta trial period consists of a resource-rich infrastructure for fans of Symbian that ultimately unites S60, UIQ, and Symbian S40 under one roof.

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At the very least, the Nokia 6780 teaches four good habits. There’s no
way to text while driving (1), since the only way to enter text is by
writing with the stylus on the unit’s touch-sensitive screen. This
will improve your penmanship (2).

Logic would dictate with the numeric keypad entirely; it only inputs
numbers and there is an on-screen version. It sits mockingly below the
screen, leaving you to wonder why Nokia eliminated its ability to
input text the good old-fashioned, tap-tap-tap way that people have
come to know and love.

People careless with possessions will learn to be more careful (3)
with the charger. Its proprietary design, incompatible with any Nokia
phone on the market today, means that finding a replacement is hard.

These are just some of the design quirks that make the 6780 a hard
phone to use. You also need to touch the screen to navigate through
the menus, even though buttons exist on the unit could do these, if
Nokia just let them. This means that aside from calling, it is
impossible to do anything else with one hand. Due to poor design on
the part of Nokia yet again, inadequate internal memory, slow
response, and minimal battery life, you’ll never be able to take
advantage of the phone’s strengths: Great PDA and office functions,
large screen, a good speaker, and passable handwriting recognition.
For the price of this phone, you can get much better.

[Thanks Rico]

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