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As part of its earnings report, Nokia let slip that Symbian, wrecker of devices and boggler of minds, is dead. Nokia will design NO MORE SYMBIAN DEVICES EVER! That’s right folks, the 808 Pureview was the last Nokia device to be riddled with Symbian-itis. Yeah, a couple of other people dabble in Symbian, but it was Nokia’s baby; now that it’s exterminated it, Symbian should be gone for good. PARTY TIME! [Nokia]
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I’ll agree it’s had its day, but what Nokia, Ericsson and others managed to wring out of it was no small feat – I still revert back to a Sony Ericsson P1 if my current smartphone falls over, because it’s still pretty much bullet proof.
The speaker of sense! Whilst Symbian wasn’t the nicest looking OS, it was solid, and on some of the lowest spec devices, it was able to do things that would put any Android/IOS device to shame.
I still think the handwriting recognition on the Sony Ericsson P series had the best interface anyone has so far come up with.
Small arrow in the middle right of the screen, anything written below was in lower case, anything along side was upper, and anything above were numbers or symbols. Far better than the WinMo implementation.
True.
So when RIM introduces BB10 (and kills it’s current lines) iOS will be the old man of phone OS’s
I am ashamed to admin that I have never used a Symbian device.
I had 10 symbian devices over the years.
They were good before 2008 but slow development of the OS led to a drawn out death. Add that to stubbornness from Nokia execs and the symbian foundation mess they were left with a poor product that dragged them right down.
You’re only young. Back in the olden times Symbian was revolutionary. Mind you, we’d only just come off of those candlestick phones where you placed all calls through the operator at the time.
I had the first Nokia Symbian, a 7650.
Remember that phone fondly. Still got a near mint touchscreen 7710 from 2004 in a box somewhere at home, complete with the TV tuner add on. If only Nokia had carried on developing touch back then, things may be very different.
Yep, I still prefer my typing experience of landscape mode on Nokia 5800 than swipe on Desire S.
The 7650 was a fantastic phone – I still remember the amazement of people when they saw a phone with a “camera”. Even better once you got the hack to enable video recording
Hehe, I remember that too indeed! It was the real player which I installed over the bluetooth, good ol’Nokia days.
It’s been dead for years already. I’m a Nokia fan but bloody hate the way symbian has clinged on since they first killed it in Feb 2011. It was the rock round Nokia’s neck. I ditched it for Android but later returned as I prefer Windows Phone.
‘Clung’ surely
Depends on who you talk to, I have a lot of 808 owners in my twitter timeline that still talk about symbian like it’s got a future
I would love to use a Windows Phone, it’s just the tiles, can’t think of any way getting used to it. I would feel violated if I do.
I felt the same way at first but once customised it really comes to life. Can never look at dual rows of icons or widgets in the same way.
Smart phones wouldn’t be where they are today without Symbian. Sure, it’s well past it’s sell by date, but at it’s peak it was the best option available.
It had to happen, I do miss my N95′s stability, what an amazing phone that was.
That’s true, those old dumb phones were very stable. You could stand them on end, which you cant do with most smartphones. Being an inch thick helped in that regard.
Yup, that’s exactly the kind of stability I was talking about :p
Still use my N95 for my work phone… it’s still going strong after all these years!
I had my Nokia N95 8Gb phone when the noofangled “eyePhone” came out – and the Nokia could do ten times what the Apple product could, albeit in a clumsy interface. Symbian did not suck, it just aged rapidly. Like (arguably I’m sure) iOS is now IMO.
Chris Mills.
The new Jesus Diaz.
Only I like Jesus.
I’m not sure whether to be flattered or offended
Ahh,don’t be offended.
Flattered then? In that case, thanks
WHY WRITE CREATIVELY WHEN CAPS LOCK CAN FORCE THE POINT JUST AS EFFECTIVELY?!
N-GAGE QD AHH!! was a good old phone that
They should have just made it open source and let people like XDA developers turn it into a usable OS.
I mean it works, it does everything you want from a basic experience, sadly it just doesn’t offer anything more because there are no programs for it.
Lets hope XDA adopts WebOS, I’d much rather see that than Symbian.
What any extraordinarily ignorant comment to make “good riddance” ! In the first place the writer does not specify which version of the Symbian range of firmware he is referring to. Like Windows you would need to specify whether it was Win 95/Win98/Xp….etc.etc.
Secondly Nokia and its firmware that have been the most popular and successful combination in the history of mobile telephony. Symbian S40 and S60 to name but two, were way ahead of anything that anyone else had and kept that position for at least 15 years.
There is much more one could say but it would be wasted on people who do not even think before they write nonsense.