"Symbian simply has got to go"

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An interesting point made by Heavylight on the above linked post. Mike’s just got himself a UK iPhone and posted a quick analysis of his experience — this text here caught SMS Text News reader Heavylight’s attention:

The iPhone starts downloading immediately, while the N95 has the Symbian bollocks of ‘Do you really want to download data? Now pick your access point, even though we know and you know there’s only one F**ker defined in the handset anyway’)

He responded with this:

For me, that’s the biggest, ugliest sign that Symbian simply has to go!

(Closely followed by the lack of font control; two almost useless browers; and the completely inadequate task manager.)

Thanks for venting — it made me feel better too!

What’s the future for Symbian when devices like the iPhone are providing such different (and better?) user experiences *right now*?

(Let’s not mention the gPhone OS…)