Maybe this wiki page may help you in the classification of Symbian Phone models that will help with the restructuring.
Wiki Under Devices that supports Symbian OS.

well if someone got/wants samsung innov8 I assume they shud know that it is symbian correct me if m wrong

they would have done research from other sites gsmarena and samsung official site as per say

to me it's transparent, (maybe so some of other users too), I'm more of a single thread forumer, rather than forum hopping. as long as the thread Topic ID stays, then it's OK.

This post has been edited by maesus: Apr 26 2009, 01:41 PM

i would still very much prefer those good old days arrangement [ PDA standalone main forum-before merging it with phone section ]

why at the first place merge PDA with others phone OS section e.g symbian etc etc? [ sorry for my ignorance due to my absent from LYN when merging took place ]

i believe there's must be a reason for the merging thingy...all right, and what's has been done is done. as for the current situation;

i fully support Baronic's new proposal [ the current structure made on 26th April 09 ]

IMHO, as a seasoned and experienced PDA/Windows Mobile user, i would very much like to share knowledge, exchange new information, solving issue, share new tweak with the pda community members....and this could be done easily if every pda fall under the same sub forum. this would ease everyone whom sharing the same interest to read, browse and give a helping hand easily....as everything is under the same page/sub and not cluster with other non related devices/OS.

can we have back the old one?

this is too tedious.

Remove Operating System Sub since there is already a sub for win and sym~

how's it looking now?

it's rather confusing...

Looking good. But some sections like phone-specific discussion is quite troublesome to access.
Maybe you should request RBR to post an announcement of the forum restructuring as some of the members is not used to the new structure.
PS : Sony Ericsson G900, W960 is classified as Symbian UIQ Phones.

This post has been edited by Forgotten06: Apr 26 2009, 05:00 PM

I must admit the current one looks kinda complicated.

I'm with prasys' suggestion with just sticking to the tags of each different brands rather than their OS.

Well, I beg to differ on regarding of this.
If everyone has done research beforehand, what is the use of creating these threads on LYN? Not all will do research first OK? Even sometimes, I bump into the phone-specific section, I will be surprised to see some models that I don't know. I click on the thread to understand more. Do you think, I'll go searching one round on Google first before looking at the thread?

Common sense tells us that we recognise brands more than the OS which it is operating with.
Isn't it easier to recognise SE P1i rather than Symbian UIQ?

This post has been edited by fruitie: Apr 26 2009, 05:03 PM

thanks, i'll move em to the right OS section.

@fruitie, yea, but then it would bring up the parent section, general OS discussion issue, as it would be neglected or the threads spammed over the main section

i shall differ to whatever RBR decides

Any changes made, I am up for it. At least its not jumbled up into one place.

I opened afew threads in this section and also the helpdesk area to condone my ideas. Don't think so I would want to repeat it again here.

To me:

The previous design is simple and easy to learn up. The new is specifically categories which is more organized. I must agree that newbies will find it hard to learn it up fast, but after awhile everyone will get used to it.

My suggestion for now will be, work together as a moderating team and come up with the best solution for this section. You are all formed as a moderating team for a reason.

Whatever solution that you guys come up with in the end, I will give my full support in making sure that forumers don't get confused.

Since it seems that new thingy is in place. I do hope the moderators in this section do come up with a sticky on where and how to post. It would clear up newbies doubts and such !

For instance identifying your phone OS first. That should be a sticky thread for newbies

For instance I may have bought a SE phone or I am looking for a SE Phone and I dont know much. The sticky thread would certainly help me out

For instance all HTC phones runs on Windows Mobile



This post has been edited by prasys: Apr 26 2009, 05:41 PM

Add another sub forum for other os, ie Andriod, Palm and other open source ones...

Btw I support the move for all phone talk to be in one forum, then branch out in respective sub forums

Well, if no such section is created beforehand, then we not be worrying about redundant and negligence issue.
Anyway, since these sub-forums were already created, nothing much could be done right?

I hope you could do a Newbie guide as suggested by prasys. Since I'm not that specialised in these devices, I will let you have to the call. Anyway, I can help on amending the guidelines.

did that for UIQ, and the users in the end wanted to be merged back into symbian. the community is too small for they're own subforum for now, and not active most importantly. we'll wait and see about that i guess

@fruitie, well the sections have been there all the while lol, just in the main section, it was just moved into there. anyway you're right. we'll have to think about something like a newbie guide. will close this thread down then, since its already done.