I wonder why people keep repeating this nonsense. I have (or had) a C7 running Symbian, a N9 (Maemo/MeeGo) and a Lumia 800 (WP). The C7 is the workhorse that I have with me most of the time. It can do everything, while the N9 lacks a bit here and there.... and WP7 is so limited and so 2005ish that I returned it after a few weeks. (It was, in fact, worse than the non-touch, S60-based 6110 Navigator.)

While I understand that low-level development for Symbian is a mess, for a user it's still years ahead of iOS, WP and friends.