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Re:Symbian Won by app4soft on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:15PM (#23643735)
> 1 year after iPhone's release, Nokia released 5800 marketed as iPhone killer; guess what?

I guess beside its resistive screen, Nokia 5800 has much more power than iPhone 3G:

- J2ME apps;

- Python for S60 apps (+ Pys60 IDE);

- Qt4 apps;

- Voice input;

- Built-in voice recorder;

- Video recording;

- Frontal camera for video calls;

- 3.2 Megapixel camera with zoom & flash;

- 35 hours of work in music player mode;

- Changeable battery;

- And much, much more.

Here is good comparison list (in Russian).[0]

[0] http://mobiltelefon.ru/post_122880924.html

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Re:Symbian Won by Abishek_Muthian on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:26PM (#23648089)
That's true of several mobile hardware/SW of that time, I mentioned capacitive screen to show typical consumer preference.

Btw, you can also add native 3G video calling via front camera to that list, my Nokia N70 did that years earlier in India. Not many westerners seem to know about this feature in my earlier discussions.

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