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The N95 had a traditional phone keypad and no touchscreen. There’s not really very much you can do with a 3D accelerated GUI under those constraints. For exampl
by pavlov 3y ago
The N95 had a traditional phone keypad and no touchscreen. There’s not really very much you can do with a 3D accelerated GUI under those constraints. For example, they had a WebKit browser years before Apple, but the navigation was stuck with arrow keys because of Nokia hardware.
I don’t disagree with you, but the problem here wasn’t just the software not taking full advantage of the hardware. It was a more fundamental disconnect between hardware and software design. At Nokia, there was practically no innovation where these two were advanced together. Everything was incremental on one side or the other.