remix2000 6 hours ago

Oh no, I can't buy the overpriced feature phone that can't even perform basic tasks like blocking ads, whatever will I do-!

Flippin' Symbian phones from early 2010's are more capable and yet they are the ones we call "dumbphones"...

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leakycap 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Flippin' Symbian phones from early 2010's are more capable

As a person who used them then and still have a few working that I turn on now and then, this is nostalgic bunk. Symbian phone hardware & software SDK were a disorganized mess. By 2010, Symbian phones were stagnant and the market was mostly abandoned.

The Symbian OS had promise, but it was not realized. There is a reason the 2007 iPhone totally disrupted PalmPC/PalmOS/webOS/Symbian and wiped them from the landscape.

	▲	remix2000 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well at least you could sideload apps…

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thw_9a83c 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Symbian phones from early 2010's are more capable...

I suppose there was no need to mention Symbian. It was a hellish system to develop for, and once smartphones had a little more RAM and CPU power, Symbian had absolutely no future. Nokia's answer to the iPhone was MeeGo [0], which wasn't bad, but Google's Android was, in fact, even better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

	▲	aranelsurion 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Google's Android was, in fact, even better. More like it was around three years earlier to the market, and already had a huge network of users, developers and apps.