One of my colleagues in Nokia Research Center actually created and maintained the python port to symbian. He was dealing with some crazy stuff. NRC actually ported quite a bit of oss to Symbian. You could actually run a webserver on the device which you could share to the internet with a reverse proxy. So, you could host your own photos from your device or use it as a webcam. Php, apache, mysql were part of this effort if I remember correctly. Another team in the same lab was responsible for porting Webkit to Symbian. This actually shipped when the iphone was nothing but a rumor. Ajax websites running on a smart phone. In 2005 when Ajax was still a new thing. Amazing stuff.

Of course all of this was labelled as research and wasn't taken too serious by the business units until it was too late. A pity, because a lot of the stuff that NRC produced wasn't bad. There was a thing called friendview that existed before foursquare was a thing where you could share your location on a map with friends. The team that did that also did another app that allowed people to share photos. Instagram was not a thing yet back then. Another team was doing a thing called sports tracker. These were tiny teams doing amazing things. Sports tracker basically was allowed to take their software outside of Nokia and create a company around it. Nokia shipped a lot of stuff like this via Nokia Betalabs. A lot of that stuff came from teams in Nokia Research Center.