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  • Nokia's a Juggernaut, But What's Left to Conquer? [View article]
    > Can you explain what you mean by "Symbian is not inherently a smartphone
    > OS like Apple's or RIM's" and why those of Apple and RIM are ?<br/>I
    > am not aware of any technical reasons why one of them is not for
    > true smartphones.

    Apple and RIM both designed their operating system to handle smartphone activities like email, internet, and so forth, and have structured them to be expandable through third party applications that utilize QWERTY keypads and other hardware features.

    Symbian was historically developed for phone hardware - number keypads that could perform some tasks like text messaging. Trying to shape and mold this into a good smartphone OS will be a challenge. You need to have a lot of low level features like memory management, task switching, data protection, power management, and so forth. Symbian was not developed with these in mind and adapting an operating system can take as long as creating a new one.
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