[borellini]

They are not the same. Even though Nokia is infamous for not being able to produce a solid smartphone platform that would actually attract app developers, their feature phones (and Sony Ericsson's, too) were always known for having more finished, polished and faster UX when compared to competition like Siemens and Motorola.

The Nokia-branded feature phones produced during Microsoft's ownership and ones produced currently by HMD Global are based on somewhat horrible generic Chinese feature phone platforms and lack the finish and localisation. HMD likes to call one of them Series 30+. Nokia's Series 30 is easy to use and reliable feature phone platform, Series 30+ is not.

[r3bl]

Reviving the old 3310 got Nokia back into every store in Europe. It really doesn't matter whether those phones are any good or not, because they're not a priority, they're just a gimmick.

They're just a gimmick that's a complete win from a marketing side though. I know Nokia, I've seen their new feature phones everywhere, I've found out that they have sturdy, decent smartphones now (like the 7 plus) running Android One, and I've made three purchases from them this year.

[pjmlp]

Having a mix of Perl and Batch files, using the Symbian C++ dialect did help on that.

But the platform was actually getting quite good before the burning platforms memo thanks to PIPS and Qt, oh well.

[rjsw]

I have an old 6101 and a new HMD 130. The new one works fine, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with the software.