Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS
jagermo@feddit.org 3 weeks agoTo be fair, Nokia flodded the market every year with a ton of different phones
Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS
jagermo@feddit.org 3 weeks agoTo be fair, Nokia flodded the market every year with a ton of different phones
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Which, honestly, was another thing I’ve come to love about the old Nokia! They weren’t just phones, they were accessories as well! Every model had a clear personality and a target audience! I remember my mum had a thing for changing her phone often, especially with models only found in other countries (she would find THE weirdest salespeople, who brought in phones from friggin’ Spain and such, and they were way cheaper than retail), and… while I don’t agree with her somewhat rampant consumerism, I gotta say, every single model had a Vibe!
Besides my 5800, my other favourite from Nokia was my 6303 Classic. That was a downright sexy phone, and rugged to boot!
jagermo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The banana was the shit. Sooo cool. So expensive.
Have you watched the Blackberry movie? Its a great insight into how Apple just crushed all of that market with the iPhone.
I wish Nokia had opened their system for third Party developers. They already had the capabilities for an app store on the devices, my E62 had a “store”. But it was just so empty and horrible
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I remember the closed nature of their system was the main thing which killed any planned OS updates for the 5800 - they were planning on adding more video support, but nothing through which to deliver it, so they just kinda’ dropped the whole thing. I was left with Symbian 60, I believe:-?
And by the time they did start opening it up, with the Es, it was already too late, because the Marketing Wars began.
I haven’t seen the Blackberry movie, thanks for recommending it! I remember those being a big thing, too, mum always wanted one (and a PT Cruiser, so take it with a grain of salt) and I seem to remember pretty much everyone giving a Blackberry-like a shot. Nokia certainly had a full physical QWERTY model, one of my exes had one. But I remember it being, like… no different than the standard keypad Nokia at the time, except with a wider screen and a keyboard.