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1. price. It did cost more than an iPhone.
2. Awful resistive touchscreen
3. The keyboard was garbage, it was impossible to touch type on it. I often found myself using an on-screen keyboard because the hardware one was just bad. Compare that to Blackberries which had the best keyboards of all phones ever.
4. Firmware. it was shit.
4.1. It was released unfinished. There was no USSD support (those *123# codes), no easy way to switch between 2G and 3G, it was all added by the community.
4.2. The system itself was just bizarre. There as an internal 256Mb NAND and a 32G eMMC. The way it was partitioned was, NAND was mounted as /, eMMC was mounted as /home, and then lots of software had to install into /home/whatever and mount --bind their stuff into /usr/lib. Which meant, you had to rebuild literally everything for no good reason with some stupid scripts.
4.3. Parts of firmware were proprietary. For one, the kernel had no support for battery management, meaning you couldn't charge your battery without a proprietary daemon from Nokia that only worked with their kernels. Many such cases!
4.4. Phone relied on Linux hacks to avoid damaging itself. For example, there was an upper limit on max volume through embedded speakers as an ALSA hack. Without it, maxing out the volume would literally make speakers tear themselves to shreds.
5. No decent SDK for third-party developers, especially those unfamiliar with Linux ecosystem (which is most devs)
6. No way to sell software for it. As a result, the only software available was a bunch of ports from Linux, often bad ones.
In other words, it was a shit phone produced with a shit business model that only pondered to a few geeks (why do you think I bought it?)
1. price. It did cost more than an iPhone.
2. Awful resistive touchscreen
3. The keyboard was garbage, it was impossible to touch type on it. I often found myself using an on-screen keyboard because the hardware one was just bad. Compare that to Blackberries which had the best keyboards of all phones ever.
4. Firmware. it was shit.
4.1. It was released unfinished. There was no USSD support (those *123# codes), no easy way to switch between 2G and 3G, it was all added by the community.
4.2. The system itself was just bizarre. There as an internal 256Mb NAND and a 32G eMMC. The way it was partitioned was, NAND was mounted as /, eMMC was mounted as /home, and then lots of software had to install into /home/whatever and mount --bind their stuff into /usr/lib. Which meant, you had to rebuild literally everything for no good reason with some stupid scripts.
4.3. Parts of firmware were proprietary. For one, the kernel had no support for battery management, meaning you couldn't charge your battery without a proprietary daemon from Nokia that only worked with their kernels. Many such cases!
4.4. Phone relied on Linux hacks to avoid damaging itself. For example, there was an upper limit on max volume through embedded speakers as an ALSA hack. Without it, maxing out the volume would literally make speakers tear themselves to shreds.
5. No decent SDK for third-party developers, especially those unfamiliar with Linux ecosystem (which is most devs)
6. No way to sell software for it. As a result, the only software available was a bunch of ports from Linux, often bad ones.
In other words, it was a shit phone produced with a shit business model that only pondered to a few geeks (why do you think I bought it?)