Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Before Nokia was assimilated and digested by Microsoft, it open sourced the OS

Huh. Did not know.

Symbian’s swansong was the remarkable Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 and other late-model Symbian devices run Nokia Belle which was really quite nice.

I still have a device here that runs that version. A Nokia 701. With AngryBirds games on it. It had an extensive app store. And that wonderful tiny charger connector (but also takes a charge from USB micro).
Nokia 701

there was that brief attempt at a revival by Planet Computers but it really didn’t stick

Oh, again I did not know that. I was interested in one of their later devices for a while, a keyboard phone running true Linux iirc.

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