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stevenwei on Oct 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?

The N8? Which didn't have a QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode until a year after release? That would randomly lock up when interacting with the UI?

That OS was nowhere near the level of its competitors.

Geee on Oct 19, 2011 [–]

Symbian Belle. Basically, it's on Android level now. They did the whole interface from ground up using Qt and GPU acceleration. The earlier versions were really horrible though.

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