Here's another S40 phone recommended by a friend in Sri Lanka. http://mynokia2730.blogspot.com/2010/04/nokia-2730-supports-tamil-and-sinhala.html
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 <sundarbe...@yahoo.com> > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Cc: Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <ravishankar.ayyakka...@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%AF%8D-%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF/ > (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 <mpa...@wikimedia.org> > > To: wikimediaindia-l@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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
