Is Nokia S60 at the end?

There are moments when I go from my Treo 750 or TyTN 2 to my E90 and feel a bit bored myself...unless I'm taking pictures/movies which is not that often. At this point the only saving grace for my E90 is its widescreen in occasionally watching a movie and its great camera with flash and AF, and even those features are starting to get old. Unfortunately I have been running into problems with bluetooth syncing with my Mac via iSync and have done away with it altogether until MissingSync for Symbian is released. Just yesterday I kept having issues with emtube and resorted to wiping the app off my E90 and going back to vtap. Just like with my previous red version a long while back, the E90 is once again starting to eventually lose favor even with its outstanding features that set it apart from other smartphone brands.

Day by day I have come to realize that multimedia is not my primary need in a smartphone, but it's texting, email managing and internet surfing. While it would be a huge benefit to have a reliable convergence device where everything worked flawlessly, that is right now a dream even with the E90, Treo 750 and TyTN 2. At the end of the day I basically have to weigh the pros and cons of Symbian against WM6 Professional...and WM6 practically wins from a daily usage perspective. Even though the TyTN 2 has 3G, wifi, GPS and a bigger screen I typically have been going for the Treo 750 due to its compact form factor and operating simplicity. Sometimes it feels good not to have to worry about sliding or flipping open a qwerty when it's right there in front of you, and the touchscreen access for WM6 Pro is absolutely a must for a UI so complex. WM6 Pro UI also has been impressive in the way that it handles itself as a mini-PC computer whereas S60 just comes off looking like a phone, and its upper hand over comes from the flawless bluetooth syncing ability with my Mac via MissingSync for WM. Even calendar categories are synced over to my Treo and TyTN 2 and I seriously have had no problems with infromation syncing over like I've had with the E90. Email management on Outlook mobile, calendar reminders, message alerts is absolutely amazing in comparison to the basic, bare-bones offering of the Nokia S60 UI. Despite their smaller screens, internet browsing with Opera Mobile 8.65 with my WM6 devices has been a rewarding experience that can rival the iPhone with features liked tabbed browsing. An upcoming update to Opera Mobile will include built-in flash which will hopefully blow its competition out of the water! Another issue that slightly gets under my skin is the fact that while WM6 Pro offers automatic word prediction and punctuation assistance, S60 does not and I almost paid extra money for Quickwrite software! S60 has proven itself in the mobile multimedia industry with its cameras but the UI is still very much lacking...and I am wondering if it is due to my being partial to touchscreen navigation.

There is absolutely no doubt that Nokia E90 has some benefits against the Treo 750 and TyTN 2 like a great camera and long battery life, but those are starting wear thin as time goes on. If I should seek to make up for the WM6 Pro shortcomings by keeping my N95-1 as a separate camera and having an auto charger for my WM6 units, I probably wouldn't mind going without the E90 myself. Is it me or is S60 starting to go down the same path as Palm in regards to functionality innovation? Though the E71 looks interesting I just can't help but think that it will face the same fate as my E90, so maybe I should just hold my breath until the Xperia X1 and the S60 Touch are both released.

TRENT
Sent from my Nokia E90