Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS
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Maemo => Meego => Sailfish OS
Nothing ever replaced the N900. And there's a difference between a large corp developing a true Linux OS, as opposed to a tiny company. But still: it's not dead.
My N810 was my single favorite piece of industrial design in a mobile device. Not perfect, and use cases moved on (to say nothing of the internals), but it was so unique and thoughtful and intricate without feeling overly fragile.
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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 steel 6303 Classic. That was a downright sexy phone, and rugged to boot!
Edit: as opposed to the contemporary "my glass slab of phone from Asus has more personality than Samsung's glass slab of phone because they set the cameras differently..." I made myself sad...
Edit 2: Smartphone Banana phone (I'm talkin' the Matrix kind, with foldable screen, turns into AR glasses, and watch/wristlet-type thing when retracted!
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
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Jeesus, that genuinely sounds painful!:( I'm very sorry I honestly don't know what to say... I mean, I understand it's just A Thing
, but some things are more than just "things"...Hehe, I was really sad when it happened, but it was more than a decade ago
I then ran a Nokia 300/Nokia E72 combo for a while, and then a Nokia E72 for a few years untill I got an iPhone 5S
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i still have a 808 Pureview. needs a new battery but otherwise I could flash a CFW for it to keep using it as a point and shoot camera lol
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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
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.
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Hehe, I was really sad when it happened, but it was more than a decade ago
I then ran a Nokia 300/Nokia E72 combo for a while, and then a Nokia E72 for a few years untill I got an iPhone 5S
Ooh, nice! That was the point when I jumped on the Android bandwagon, the death throes for Nokia were kinda' showing by that point...
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Maemo => Meego => Sailfish OS
Nothing ever replaced the N900. And there's a difference between a large corp developing a true Linux OS, as opposed to a tiny company. But still: it's not dead.
Meh, the Sailfish guys made the same mistake that Nokia made in not open sourcing their work. That has kept me away from them so far.
Then again their company is still in business so maybe it wasn't such a bad move after all.
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I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like.
Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones.
But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.
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Maemo => Meego => Sailfish OS
Nothing ever replaced the N900. And there's a difference between a large corp developing a true Linux OS, as opposed to a tiny company. But still: it's not dead.
Don't forget Tizen too; MeeGo's other bastard offspring.
I think Tizen is still around?
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I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like.
Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones.
But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.
N900 was by far my best phone.
I've had a lot of Symbian phones too, most memorable was the second, the 3650!
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Don't forget Tizen too; MeeGo's other bastard offspring.
I think Tizen is still around?
Lol, so you saying that my N900 now lives in my TV?? :''(
I miss you, my beloved N900, and I still talk about you to people.
