About time Nokia! However, it would be nice to see some Specs for the phone, how the UI works, and what this means for developers who want to write apps for this phone.
Also, with all these different phones running different OS's it makes it harder for us developer types to target all the platforms, unless we could write apps using Java and/or Flex which Apple disallows.
Developing Symbian code is a challenge, Symbian developers are hard to find on great demand (if you want a pay rise you may consider dive into it :-) )
It was the best until a few years ago, but now the competition had caught up with it.
RIM(Blackberry) were always good, the last Windows mobile is stable, iPhone is getting there, and mobile linux (where Android is on of its flavours) is looking to gain some market as well.
I'm not saying the Symbian is going to die in the near future, but it lost a lot of ground, and they got a lot of catching up to do.
This looks really cool. I was just listening yesterday to Adam Curry totally saying how awesome his Nokia e71 (or close to that) was awesome. Before that, I never really thought of Nokia smartphones since they aren't very popular here in Blackberry central (waterloo, ontario)
Also, with all these different phones running different OS's it makes it harder for us developer types to target all the platforms, unless we could write apps using Java and/or Flex which Apple disallows.