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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by molofaha on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:54PM (#28205664)
The Microsoft-Nokia didn't want to maintain the old OSs so went with a licensed clone of Series 30, and then post-Microsoft went with KaiOS (though newer ones seem to be back on the Series 30 clone, which is frankly a better experience than KaiOS was). Like, I was never a big fan of Series 30 or 40 but they had an awful lot of iterative improvement over the years and they just pissed that all away.
Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by FridayoLeary on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:23AM (#28209546)
KaiOS (if that's what it's called) is crap and almost unusable. The Symbian series and more basic OSs were pretty complete and nice to use. Nokia no longer make good phones, or even mediocre phones.