Nokia or Sony could have done it, if they weren't being run by idiots. The hardware was very close, but Symbian had been off in a land developing stuff for thei

Nokia or Sony could have done it, if they weren't being run by idiots. The hardware was very close, but Symbian had been off in a land developing stuff for their own amusement with no connection to end users for too long. Some of the software written behind closed doors on Sony hardware in around 2006 looked a lot like a modern games console UI. The problem was the US was largely an incompatible market (brew) so you had to pay for this stuff just with Europe, so it remained a niche. The modern mobile industry view of history is hilariously US centric, when until 2007 it was one of the moat backwards markets around.