The Symbian operating system enables programmers to control hardware in the way they do on the PC, and other operating systems do not give such a high level of control. That is why there are emulators for Sega, Amiga, Commodore 64 for the Symbian S60, and there aren’t for other mobile phones. With the new N97 phone, you can also use the qwerty keyboard with these programs, and have your favourite classic computer in your pocket at all times.
You can’t really hope for that with any other phone on the market. Nor with the PSP, since it doesn’t have a keyboard. The PSP also doesn’t have 32GB of storage flash, and 128MB of ram. And 256MB of NAND flash to be used for memory paging of unused ram. And it doesn’t have a 640 times 360 pixel screen. And it isn’t a mobile phone. It looks like Sony and Nintendo will be forced to make emulators for their systems for new powerful smartphones, and sell games trough the internet only. And not sell overpriced devices anymore. It is getting to where only the software matters, at least on the N97. The hardware is strong enough to do anything already. Recording HDTV is still out of reach, but when that becomes possible on mobile phones, so will emulating an entire PC fast enough to use all specific applications not available for mobile phones.
It is possible even now on the N97, only if someone would write the software required. But then Windows Mobile devices would loose purpose. So someone doesn’t allow this to happen. Guess who? But Windows Mobile will definitely fail, as it is inferior to almost all operating systems. It was inferior on PC’s too, but they are working toward fixing that, but there are no plans of fixing it in the mobile segment since they know there already are many good operating systems. And the software available for them is more than what they can offer. It is only a matter of time before the army of programmers every mobile phone company has, without paying them directly, instead trough systems like the Apple’s iStore, program every application for the mobile phone you use when it becomes possible, like it is on the Nokia Symbian operating system. It makes applications run at least twice as fast on the same hardware compared to the Windows Mobile operating system.
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The Symbian operating system enables programmers to control hardware in the way they do on the PC, and other operating systems do not give such a high level of control. That is why there are emulators for Sega, Amiga, Commodore 64 for the Symbian S60, and there aren’t for other mobile phones. With the new N97 phone, you can also use the qwerty keyboard with these programs, and have your favourite classic computer in your pocket at all times.
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