Andrew Orlowski on The Register:<\/p>\n
So for the past year the 808 has had a crepuscular presence. It\u2019s lived on, in a spooky afterlife: Nokia wanted you to\u00a0know<\/em>\u00a0about it, and prominently placed the thing on the front page of its main website \u2013 but it did not want you to actually\u00a0buy<\/em>\u00a0it. Nokia had already transferred some 3,000 Symbian engineers to Accenture, and last February cancelled all Symbian devices on its phone road map bar the 808.<\/p>\n
Yet, something unexpected has happened. The 808 as been quietly receiving lots of loving care and attention. Regular updates and tweaks have continued from the Other Side, including a major overhaul of the OS late last year. Every update is expected to be the last. But still they keep coming, and if anything, the pace is accelerating.<\/p>\n
Over the past few weeks I\u2019ve attempted to live with a PureView 808. And it\u2019s been an interesting and surprising experience. This is the first Symbian phone I\u2019ve used regularly in four years and it isn\u2019t quite how I remembered Symbian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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