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Re:First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exc... by samfisher83 on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:52AM (#13350200)
Nokia made smart phones with browsers before iphone. It wasn't great, but they were on the smartphone thing from the start. Also I don't know how you can say iphone is more free than symbian. You could put what you wanted into your phone.
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Re:First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exc... by pjmlp on Sunday January 08, 2017 @11:30AM (#13350454)
One thing was that iPhone SDK surely felt like heaven when compared to the clunky Symbian C++ one, which after three reboots still felt bad.
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Re:First Nokia-branded Android smartphone to be released exc... by neighborinooo on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:51PM (#13350921)
> Also I don't know how you can say iphone is more free than symbian. You could put what you wanted into your phone.

It's been like a decade since I had a Symbian phone (the only one I ever used), so maybe my memory is fuzzy, but didn't all applications have to be signed at great expense?

Sure, Apple does the same kind of thing with the App Store, but it's substantially cheaper and despite the known App Store woes probably a smoother process.

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