Another prototype, that's all we've found out about it so far. See the photo in the middle.
#Symbian #NGage #Fathammer #lost
#symbian
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Another part of the Symbian world before N-GAGE. This demo is very hard to find in the public domain. It was presented as a game for Nokia 7650.
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@punkfairie @ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii Yeah and #Symbian is used with cheap phones of a brand named #Swisstone.
Case in point: #KaiOS nee #FirefoxOS is now drowned in obscurity because of #Mozilla mismanagment and hamfisted approach compared to #Android.
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@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill also #BlackBerry's #PlayBook #Tablet was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it "#WiiU-Effect" in terms of marketing.
- Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.
I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like @fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.
- Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.
#Sony even released some #Symbian #S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...
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@Gleisplan
Zuerst hat Microsoft entschieden, dass das wunderbare Betriebssystem #Symbian zugunsten des minderwertigen Windows Mobile einzustellen sei. Stephen Elop, der ehemalige Präsident der Geschäftskundenabteilung von Microsoft, war damals CEO von #Nokia geworden, hat das umgesetzt und Nokias dadurch wertlos gewordene Handysparte an #Microsoft verkauft. Die Konsumenten, die gerne weiterhin Symbian genutzt hätten, hatten gar keine Wahl.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop
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#Nokia #Maulwurf
de.m.wikipedia.orgStephen Elop – Wikipedia
The stuff I have in my drawers of geekery.
I used Symbian OS for years. It was a fantastic operating system which Nokia used a version of.
Me? Why I had a Psion Series 5 then a Nokia communicator. Until recently I used the series 5 as a clean and distraction free word processor. The keyboard is the best pocket keyboard ever made.
The Nokia 9210 Communicator 
, launched in 2001, was the first device to run on the Symbian OS 
. It famously appeared in the 2002 music video 
Dilemma by Nelly and Kelly Rowland 
, where Rowland used its Excel app
to send a "message", sparking a lasting meme 