And adding Python support for S60 (PyS60) was the best gift by Nokia for users as it brings Symbian devices to be "on-the-go handheld devs tool for developing apps without desktop PC".[0]
Has you ever know that there is fully functional Blender-like 3D mesh editor & animator app written in Python for S60 (PyS60) directly on Symbian smartphone?[1]
>And adding Python support for S60 (PyS60) was best gift by Nokia
Yeah installing python interpreter in S60 on my Nokia N70 ME, motivated me to checkout Python programming book from my college library. As I was reading it in the class during break, the top-ranking girl student came across and asked me "Why Python, isn't it a dead language?"(circa 2006-2007) I assumed she must be right, I didn't write python until several years later; I bet she's using Python in her job now.
TL;DR: "Operation Elop" organized by Microsoft...[0]
• iPhone's capacitive touch screen vs Nokia's resistive touch with stylus requirement was too much of a friction (pun not intended). 1 year after iPhone's release, Nokia released 5800 marketed as iPhone killer; guess what? it had f'in stylus with resistive screen.
• Then when android happened, which was poor man's iPhone; Nokia hugged Windows Phone OS. Which never became a thing as it lacked Google apps (Google killed it, MSFT would have done the same to Google if places were interchanged). Other comments have detailed possible leadership sabotage related to the MSFT deal, which I agree with.
I guess beside its resistive screen, Nokia 5800 has much more power than iPhone 3G:
- J2ME apps;
- Python for S60 apps (+ Pys60 IDE);
- Qt4 apps;
- Voice input;
- Built-in voice recorder;
- Video recording;
- Frontal camera for video calls;
- 3.2 Megapixel camera with zoom & flash;
- 35 hours of work in music player mode;
- Changeable battery;
- And much, much more.
Here is good comparison list (in Russian).[0]
Btw, you can also add native 3G video calling via front camera to that list, my Nokia N70 did that years earlier in India. Not many westerners seem to know about this feature in my earlier discussions.
[1] https://knowledge.insead.edu/strategy/who-killed-nokia-nokia...
Stephen Elop, Nokia President & CEO since September 2010.[0,1,2,3,4,5]
Since 2011 Symbian & Nokia starts its degradation under Elop 's "leadership".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#CEO_of_Nokia
[1] https://www.europeanceo.com/profile/stephen-elop
[2] https://www.smartcompany.com.au/business-advice/strategy/how...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/08/nokia-ste...
[4] https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/17/8796465/grand-theft-elop
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/15/elop_and_the_fall_of_...