Nokia drops Symbian on N-series devices

The end of an era: no more Symbian on N-series devices.

It's official: Nokia N8 are the last N-series phone with the Symbian operating system.Instead, a child of love is the company on MeeGo, OS of Nokia maemo and Intel's Moblin shifting it is the end of an era!

Although Symbian is gone forever (it will still pop up in Nokia's low end budget phones) I can not help wax nostalgic here. My first Symbian phone N series was also the first N-series mobile phone, which ever made: the N90. (It was also the subject of my first post on the Nokia phone blog) It was huge, heavy as hell and more for a brick as any phone I ever heard.But I loved es.Und I loved the fact that I could take fantastic pictures (at the time) to see LOST on the flip swivel screen and all kinds of fun to play games (mostly NES games). The sheer potential the N90 was revolutionary.

Of course times have changed, and N-series phones have come and gone, from the first Nokia Smartphone slider (N80), the first DVB-H mobile (N92) to the first flip (N75, probably up to the standards of life), to the immensely popular N90.And now the N8, the 12 megapixel shooter by its own creator to orphans.

I see it as a good thing, though.Symbian is a relapse in the Vergangenheit.Touchscreen Smartphones have become the de facto standard, and let's face it: don't cut it Symbian Fifth Edition and it looks like Symbian

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