Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS
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To be fair, Nokia flodded the market every year with a ton of different phones
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!
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Oh, maan... I still remember my 5800, I loved that phone to pieces... Excellent speaker system for the time (it was genuinely stereo and had a bit of meat on the sound, too!), my first touchscreen (which was a bit frustrating due to my thick logs, but worked perfectly with the stylus), and it was also my very first experience with multiplayer on a phone! Used to play that default racing game with a year mate in Uni, and it was very fun! And the OS was as an OS should be: so smooth as to not even register with the user!
Edit: oh, and the full QWERTY was very nice, although I was fresh off the keypad, so it was a bit awkward.
The 5800 was a nice phone, but for me the king of Symbian phones was the E7, I am still pissed mine got stolen
Loved the fold out keyboard, it made the phone absolutely amazing, I remember running Putty Touch on my E7, sshing into a friend's server to access irssi and go on IRC.
Looked like such a hacker, and felt badass.
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The 5800 was a nice phone, but for me the king of Symbian phones was the E7, I am still pissed mine got stolen
Loved the fold out keyboard, it made the phone absolutely amazing, I remember running Putty Touch on my E7, sshing into a friend's server to access irssi and go on IRC.
Looked like such a hacker, and felt badass.
That was my Goal Phone, yes! Either that, or the N8, but the 5800 was the only thing I could afford at the time:))
They were really nice phones, properly into "smartphones" by that point - the 5800 was more like a... clever phone:))
Oh, nooo!:( I'm so sorry, that's how I lost my 5800, too! Got mugged at night, ffs..
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I really liked my Nokia 5800. I just checked online and see that it retailed for almost half the price of an iPhone. No wonder it was popular where I'm from. It seems if you loose in USA market you loose everywhere.
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That was my Goal Phone, yes! Either that, or the N8, but the 5800 was the only thing I could afford at the time:))
They were really nice phones, properly into "smartphones" by that point - the 5800 was more like a... clever phone:))
Oh, nooo!:( I'm so sorry, that's how I lost my 5800, too! Got mugged at night, ffs..
I used my first paycheck to buy myself an E7, less than a year later it was stolen
It was a gorgeous phone but DAMN slippery!
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I used my first paycheck to buy myself an E7, less than a year later it was stolen
It was a gorgeous phone but DAMN slippery!
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
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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.
