My new Samsung i560

I bought my new mobile phone a few weeks ago now - a shiny new Samsung i560.

What appealed to me was the Symbian OS as I knew it was a widely used operating system, allowing me to install a wide variety of software.

The phone also came equipped with a GPS - a gimmick. It just goes to show I'm not immune to them. :)

I haven't had any success with getting the GPS unit to work and now my 14 day software trial is all over. I don't feel inclined to spend about 40 euros on purchasing the software to drive it.

I've also been disappointed with software availability - there are clearly different installation packages for S60 devices depending on the device. As I use Google Calendar and GMail heavily, I wanted mobile clients for these. To my dismay, they're not available for the i560, though they are for other S60 3rd edn. devices. I'm presently looking for alternatives.

I also use Remember the Milk for tasks and EverNote, for which I'm unable to get clients either. I can tolerate those but I'd love to see Symbian / Java clients. So I'm reserving my disappointment for Google. They're a big company and really should be able to support my device. Though Google isn't part of the Symbian consortium and is developing their own mobile phone OS so maybe they're sulking over it.

Anyway, I'm going to sulk. :(