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Old 14-12-2016, 08:20
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There is no doubt that for us old gits, Nokia was once the only real choice. Motorola and the rest had fairly obstructive OS and Nokia phones just worked and worked very well. The OS for what it was was deeply intuitive. Then came Symbian and they couldn't give it up, even in the face of death, they refused. Last one I have was I think an N73 (not 100% sure). Anyway it was bulletproof hardware with a superb camera for the time but I don't think I ever remembered how to send a text, the whole time I had it. The OS was a total pig and it made me sad that they couldn't see that and just admit defeat. Android was out at that time. They could have switched.
the problem with Symbian wasn't the OS, it was invariably having the UI setup in a really weird way, especially when operators stuck their oar in and moved everything around. The UI was capable of being great, but the internal in fighting within Nokia (different OS branch for each new device) kinda screwed them. Ironic that MS have had similar problems.

PS. N73 camera was good, but it had a horrible red balance problem.
PPS. I intend to keep my 808 around, Symbian on that is pretty easy to use, and the camera still whups the posterior of every phone currently on the market.
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Old 14-12-2016, 08:23
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I had the N95, which in many ways was an excellent phone, just let down by the operating system.

I don't want to sound too cynical but surely this is about exploiting brand recognition rather than coming up with the next generation of mobile technology. They will do a bit of market research, try to come up with 'gimmick' and then sell a largely bog standard Andriod phone.
Let down by the UI setup, *not* the OS. And those two are very separate on Symbian.

Agreed that they're likely to just be using the brand to sell something fairly bland. All their expertise has gone off elsewhere, there is no "Nokia DNA" left there (which isn't a bad thing, as Nokia DNA would involve chronic mis management, no direction, and occasionally brilliant products that weren't marketed - N9 springs to mind there, still the best UI ever released on a phone).
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