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This sure makes me want to buy an N8. It's deprecated from the start!
by fierarul 16y ago
This sure makes me want to buy an N8. It's deprecated from the start!
- pavlov 16y agoDon't be silly. Symbian is simply moving down-market. It will become Nokia's main offering in the mid-range category, which is currently dominated by "featurephone" operating systems. For a historical comparison, think of the old Symbian as Windows 3.1 and MeeGo as Windows NT. In this analogy, the new Symbian is like Windows 95: it's a low-cost solution that catches up to the state of the art in the UI department while also providing API compatibility with the same vendor's high-end operating system. (Symbian^3 and MeeGo are compatible on the API level because both use Qt. The next version of Symbian will throw away the old Symbian UI layer entirely in favour of a new one that's built entirely in Qt.)