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gaius on Feb 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nothing in Android makes sense except in the light...

If your world was the USA. Symbian/S60 was the dominant smartphone OS

Symbian might have been a smartphone OS, but it was mainly deployed in featurephones.

pavlov on Feb 16, 2012 [–]

Only Japanese Symbian phones would qualify as featurephones because they lacked the ability to install native apps.

The rest of the Symbian devices were real smartphones, for example the popular N95. (They didn't have QWERTY keyboards, but that doesn't make a smartphone.)

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