I am looking at getting a smart-phone most likely from at&t(current provider) and I am wanting to have the freedom of being able to program small apps for it. I do not want an iPhone but am open to almost any of the others.
Do you have any recommendations for which smart-phones are easily programmable or most suited to being programmed?
Please state which languages these phones are programmed in. This is not really important but I am curious
I know Nokia is not the hottest choise for smartphones in the US, but the new Web Runtime Widgets in S60 5th edition devices makes development insanely easy! You can make really cool functional apps with just HTML/CSS/Javascript thanks to the widget runtime.
I personally have a Nokia E51 (S60 3.2) that supports WRT 1.0 that allows you to make simple widgets that can be installed like native symbian apps, but S60 5th edition devices (5800, N97) come with WRT 1.1 that allows Javascript access to the phone's internal resources (calendar, contacts etc. even accellerometer!) that provide a basis for some insanely cool apps that are dead simple to develop!