Backed up from a local Blogger export (113978868878231221/113978868878231221.html) on 2026-01-01.

I picked up some new test hardware, a Nokia 6682 which turns out to be a rather nice phone. I’m in the process of trying to download the final S60 3rd edition toolset which is the latest and greatest from Nokia. We’ll see how well that goes. I ended up basically creating my own S60 build system for the 1st edition toolkit. The nokia supplied plugins and build setup was total rubish. The S60 emulator had such horrible startup times I ended up just writing a fake framebuffer wrapper engine and developing all the graphics code using stubbed functionality.

Here’s my new test phone: