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Seriously, have you really used an N95/N97? How can you even think to compare it to an iphone 3G?

• dingaling 10y ago
  > How can you even think to compare it to an iphone 3G? Indeed it's a silly comparison, the iPhone 3G had a far inferior screen and camera. And it couldn't even record video! Seriously though the N97 was very popular in the UK amongst business and technical types. My nerdy ISP at the time gave detailed VPN and VOIP instructions for the N-series but had no support for the iPhones because they couldn't perform those functions over cell networks. If Nokia had managed to keep the momentum up following the N97 they perhaps could have maintained the corporate-market dominance they had with the E- and N-series Communicators. But they stumbled and Blackberry struck, plus Apple started picking-off juicy C-level targets who then demanded that their tech staff support the iPhone. At that point the division between 'fun' consumer and 'serious' corporate phones began to crumble.
• dogma1138 10y ago
  I had both of them they had advantages over the iPhone as far as the device capability goes. Even some apps were better, the problem is that Nokia continued to work on feature phones rather than their platform. If Nokia had a decent store and opened Symbian development to the masses properly it would not have been at a disadvantage, vanilla iOS was pretty horrible.