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The UI was a joke designed by "year of the Linux desktop" believers. I mean just look at it: http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/reviews/11886-image/scree...

Can't touch anything, touch targets are all too small, so you are forced to use the stylus. Visually it looks like the love child of BeOS and KDE. can't tell from a static screenshot but everything was unbelievably slow.

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I think that's from a n800 or n810, which had no phone functionality and were based on gtk+ rather than Qt/QML. n900 calendar was totally different.

Yes, that appears to be from the N8xx. The N800 was contemporaneous with the iPhone so I don't feel this is an unfair comparison. It shows how Nokia had the notion of touchscreen UIs completely wrong.

I still insist it's an unfair comparison because the linux tablets were a minor sideshow to the symbian phones. Then of course it's a fair comparison in that symbian wasn't great either, but at least they didn't just minimally repurpose a desktop UI.

Expected something awful.

That looks decent.

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