Here's another S40 phone recommended by a friend in Sri Lanka.
http://mynokia2730.blogspot.com/2010/04/nokia-2730-supports-tamil-and-sinha…
This costs just Rs.4,200 (100 USD) and has 3G support.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
----- Original Message ----
From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com>
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <ravishankar.ayyakkannu(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 8:43:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] support for Indic script
Hello Mani,
You have left out Symbian 9.1 (S60 3rd edition phones) in the table.
While they do not natively support Indic languages, there's a slightly
roundabout way to read most Indic scripts and other complex scripts.
In my Nokia N72, for instance, I've enabled "support for complex script
rendering". Opera Mini renders Indic texts as images (jpg/bmp?).
This way, I'm able to read Tamil text.
Also, contrary to popular thinking, it is the lower end phones that have
better
Indic language support. Nokia 5130 (S40 v5) is one such phone with good Tamil
support. Ravishankar Ayyakkannu (User:Ravidreams) of
Tamil Wikipedia has
reviewed this
at
http://blog.ravidreams.net/2009/09/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%…
(in
Tamil). Copying him so that he can add more info.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for
the
expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
----- Original Message ----
> From: Mani Pande <mpande(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 4:21:12 AM
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] support for Indic script
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to figure out which Indic languages are supported on different
mobile
operating systems. I have created a table to map support for Indic
languages on different mobile OS, I would appreciate if you would populate
the
table so we can have a clearer understanding on
scripting for Indian
languages.
You can find the link on the strategy wiki. Here is the link:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile/Forecasts/India
Thanks
Mani
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