As someone who owned multiple Symbian phones, it was great as a user - developing for it was a different matter entirely with the bastardized C++ variant you ha

As someone who owned multiple Symbian phones, it was great as a user - developing for it was a different matter entirely with the bastardized C++ variant you had available (no exceptions or a lot of other common features that were left out because the original devices running Symbian had nowhere near enough CPU power to handle them, but once the S60 3rd Edition devices like my N75 started rolling around they should have been pushing hard on modernizing the toolchain - they didn't).