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Re: Symbian Source Code

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Post by msh »

pavlov wrote: post #9
substation13 wrote: post #2

Anyone else feel sad coming across something like this? So many hours spent for a product that is largely forgotten. Glad to see the pieces out in the open though.

Symbian, the Ozymandias of smartphone operating systems. They had a lot of the right ideas very early. They started building a high-resolution graphical mobile OS for 32-bit ARM in the mid-1990s, when most phones barely could display two lines of text and receive an SMS. Many concepts in iOS and Android today were pioneered by Symbian. IMO, the biggest failing of Symbian was to disown the UI and focus on the lower la…

I think as long as it was companies like nokia who liked to create smartphones that where primarily phones with texting first and computers a very distant second Symbian did not have a chance.

I know that they made stuff like the 9x00 communicators but they where never intended as mass market products.

Nokia was never able to craft a desirable product that brought applications to the mainstream user, most people who got their smartphones only used them as phones.

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Post by antiverse »

For anyone wanting to play Nokia N-Gage games (S60? I forget), there is already a lengthy walkthrough and setup of how to emulate the games on Windows that is available on The Internet Archive; complete with a torrent/zip of all the games on the system.

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Post by ff317 »

klaussilveira wrote: post #14
pavlov wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Symbian, the Ozymandias of smartphone operating systems. They had a lot of the right ideas very early. They started building a high-resolution graphical mobile OS for 32-bit ARM in the mid-1990s, when most phones barely could display two lines of text and receive an SMS. Many concepts in iOS and Android today were pioneered by Symbian. IMO, the biggest failing of Symbian was to disown the UI and focus on the lower la…

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

Also one of several instances where the Breaking Bad writers put a lot of thought into amazing episode themes and titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_(Breaking_Bad)

Re: Symbian Source Code

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Post by lproven »

pm2222 wrote: post #25

This reminds me of those android tv boxes. Their spec is pretty good to run linux. Is there generic way to convert them to say arch/ubuntu linux?

I think you will need to be specific. Which particular make/model do you have in mind? Have you looked to see if someone's already done it?
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