Hey folks (or more in particular, all members who have programming skills and could possibly help me),

I must say, I'm really disappointed about the restrictions of my smartphone Nokia N8 (Symbian^3 OS), as it has neither native Japanese input nor output support and the 'cool' feature of the dictionary is basically nothing more worth than a few '???'.
As the support sucks and Damien Elmes, the developer of Anki, denies coding up an Anki version for Symbian, I wanted to ask if somebody here at the koohii community board has skills compiling such a version/edition for Symbian smartphones, or writing a parser (html, which could be opened in the browser, which opens a *.anki file from mass storage -> normal anki environment?).

Unfortunately Anki Mobile does not work for me, as I do not have constantly internets on my mobile and will not get such a possibility in time (too expensive, simple). Neither iAnki will work..

Lots of people would be helped!

You've asked at the Anki forums already?

Also that AnkiMini thing didn't work? http://ankisrs.net/ankimini/

Heh, this is a big misunderstanding always! (I meant iAnki = Anki Mini, oops)
Nokia N8 (to be more precise: N8-00) != Nokia N800 (which works with the linux distro called 'Maemo') And yes, there were questions on the Anki forum already, otherwise I wouldn't ask in here. The developer doesn't feel like it's "necessary", therefore I was even anxious if an improvisation with html á la Anki was possible and if somebody could come up with such an idea...

That phone sound awful. Did you just get it, or are you planning on getting something better anytime soon? I think a new phone would be the best solution.

Well, it was a x-mas present :x

prink Wrote:That phone sound awful. Did you just get it, or are you planning on getting something better anytime soon? I think a new phone would be the best solution.

Or an ipod touch :/

Coding for Symbian was highly undesirable even at the height of its popularity (horrific toolchain, no two phones alike, incompatible OS changes every fortnight, etc.) , and now that it has become an abandoned platform, I doubt anyone will invest too much time into it.

The only way it's going to work is if you learn a bit of Python and Symbian and put something together for yourself.

I'll second the iPod Touch suggestion. I used one for a long time, and it eventually sold me on getting an iPhone.

Or a phone on Android or a MP3/MP4 player on Android, like Samsung Galaxy Player 50.

iPod is a slightly better choice because it has a built-in Japanese font with the correct Japanese character shapes. Most android phones/tablets/mp3 players only have a Chinese font, so some of the characters (直, 今, 紙, etc.) will look slightly odd. Of course once you root your android device, you can have any font you like.