Tag: symbian

Steve’s top ten reasons for continuing to use a Symbian smartphone in 2013

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Steve Litchfield, on ‘All About Symbian’: Symbian hasn’t been in my twice-yearly Phones Show ‘top 5’ recommendations for a year now, but what I recommend to the ‘great unwashed’ isn’t necessarily an accurate reflection of my innermost thoughts in terms of my own smartphone use. My SIM card bounces between over twenty smartphones each year, yet it keeps coming back to the Nokia 808 PureView (and, occasionally, the E6), at which point I have enormous fun trying to analyse my own motives for doing so. So, almost off the top of my head, here are ten reasons ‘Why Symbian?’ and

It started with the 7650 camera phone, it ends with the 808 camera phone

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Nokia’s Q4 results, released today: During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian. The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid 2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia. And that’s also the end of Psion’s operating system in consumer electronics, with the EPOC Series 5 standing out as the first device runnig the OS that would become Symbian. Want to go back further? Start at the SIBO Series 3 PDA’s that inspired the Electronic Piece of Cheese OS, that grew up

Steve Litchfield ventures into the world of GPRS

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It was somewhat telling that both my Lumia 800 and my Galaxy Nexus, both with ‘2012’ operating systems and both with limited internal storage (16GB) were somewhat crippled in terms of how I’d normally use their interfaces and functions in the absence of even moderate speed data…  But it was left to my Nokia 808, running the relatively ancient Symbian OS, with its data and battery efficiencies, with its internal 16GB mass memory, plus (in my case) 32GB microSD, to provide me with (sideloaded) movies, music, maps and more on my travels. All About Windows Phone.

Nokia and Symbian’s biggest issue in one simple quote

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Lee Williams via CNet. When I was at Nokia and we shipped a Symbian product and it was bad, in its worst incarnation we knew that if we just flipped the switch, we could move 2.5 to three million units — overnight, no matter how bad the product. That was Nokia. That was Nokia’s brand, we knew we could count on that. The problem is you can only pull that trick once before the networks see the customer feedback. 24 months later, all those customers looking to buy another smartphone on contract… didn’t buy a Nokia.