Why not sell the Symbian 60 software rights or make it open source?
7 points| hosa | 4 years ago
This is a question I had for YEARS..
Nokia basically has shelved the Symbian 60 OS for many years, not making any devices that run it and not selling it either, so whats up??
Why am I asking this question right now? Because im INFURIATED that today , if I want to buy a basic phone, I am pretty much stuck with weird, cheap experience Chinese software ( sometimes even on good phone hardware) that is always a huge let down compared to Symbian 60.. And I don’t even want to mention the crap cake that is KaiOS...
HMD Global... .. ... Where can I start.. what is it? Where did it come from? Who the hell do they think they are? They are not “global” at all! They wish! It is a joke and a pathetic excuse of a company... and an insult to every person who owned a classic Nokia.. But seriously what is their endgame? Pissing people off? Because thats the only thing I can see.. They don’t care one bit about anything they make, you can observe that very clearly..
[+] [-] tossaway9000|4 years ago|reply
Oh please do, its absolutely horrid. How are they even keeping up with Firefox security updates? The only conclusion I could come to, when investigating this, was that they aren't, and when I asked the company in a comment on their public blog how they were handling it they deleted my comment.
I was hoping Lightphone would be a strong contender for a non-smartphone but the reviews so far have been mixed and there seems to be a few serious issues (e.g. battery life), also there's no 2FA which honestly is one of the main things I use my phone for these days (not everything supports hardware 2FA)
[+] [-] hosa|4 years ago|reply
[+] [-] toast0|4 years ago|reply
Possibly here https://github.com/SymbianSource
[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/02/symbian-operating-system-now-o...
[+] [-] hosa|4 years ago|reply