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by HelloMcFly 4653 days ago
I think what I take issue with is referring to any device running a Symbian OS as a "smart phone". Many Symbian phones were just "feature phones", and this is probably (though I can't prove it) especially true in BRICS countries. It's not really a fair comparison. We've got little reason to believe Nokia's fate would have been any different in those markets as they developed than it was anywhere else.

Plus, did you ever use an actual Symbian smart phone? I used this one for a bit (http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/nokia-e7-dark-gray/4505-...) and it was just terrible. And it was probably one of the top 5 best Symbian models!
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speeder 4653 days ago
My family owned several of them.

We really liked them... Powerful enough to play a J2ME port of Counter-Strike but affordable.

iOS is still beyond 90% of the population income or somehing like that.

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