/me cries in Maemo :`-(
Have a look at what came before Symbian : Psion series 5
In the end, when the Series 5 finally shipped, it was like being transported into the future, only through a very murky tunnel.
Gretton’s hardware clocked in at a meagre-sounding 18Mhz — but performed like a desktop Intel PC from just two years previously — and it could still maintain 30 hours use on two AA batteries. Once the circuitry was complete, the Series 5 performed the same tasks as its Windows CE rivals but used only a quarter of the power.
I still have two working Psion 5MX palmtops and love them to death.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
Ooh, nice! That was the point when I jumped on the Android bandwagon, the death throes for Nokia were kinda’ showing by that point…
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
