[kylewpppd]

I am somewhat biased to view that as an opinion rather than as fact. Symbian has always had a much lower overhead than iOS, and Symbian has also been very good about offloading processing tasks to specialized hardware rather than relying on a fast main processor. One of the beautiful things about this approach is that Symbian is much better with battery life than iOS.

Nokia's focus on high end devices is different from the iPhone, and the "technical capabilities" is all in the checkboxes you choose to include.

Physical keyboards, removable storage, removable batteries, 5-band UTMS (the iPhone 4 may have this?), HDMI out, Xenon Flash, FM transmitters, DUN & FTP bluetooth profiles, Adobe Flash, video calling w/o WiFi, and true multi-tasking are all checkboxes that I can use to make the iPhone look like it lacks technical capabilities.

So I think we need to be careful about what we define as lack of technical capabilities. While Symbian may seem less responsive than the iPhone, my opinion is that the iPhone does lots of caching and transitions to make it look smooth while processing. Symbian traditionally has been more baked in functionality than the iPhone, but Symbian certainly is less beautiful.