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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by htns on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:52PM (#12184576)
I think that's from a n800 or n810, which had no phone functionality and were based on gtk+ rather than Qt/QML. n900 calendar was totally different.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by honkhonkpants on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:56PM (#12184596)
Yes, that appears to be from the N8xx. The N800 was contemporaneous with the iPhone so I don't feel this is an unfair comparison. It shows how Nokia had the notion of touchscreen UIs completely wrong.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business by htns on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:20PM (#12184679)
I still insist it's an unfair comparison because the linux tablets were a minor sideshow to the symbian phones. Then of course it's a fair comparison in that symbian wasn't great either, but at least they didn't just minimally repurpose a desktop UI.
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