Symbian IS great. It is the greatest mobile OS ever to have existed. It is being surpassed right now by - Android. By any definition of greatness (commercially) there have been two mobile OS'es: Symbian and Android. Everything ELSE is crap.

A more detailed analysis shows lots of smaller OS'es with great commercial potential. Even more detailed analysis shows greatness in UI (iOS, Swipe/Harmattan), openness (Maemo), and so on.

For all practical purposes (regardless of reason), what Nokia has done is to kill the greatest mobile OS ever to have existed; Symbian. They have killed one of potentially greatest OSes; Maemo/MeeGo, and has gone for the least successful mobile OS of all time: WP. Maybe WP will have some success, time will show, but so far the only ones who like WP/Nokia are those who have gone tired of iOS. Old Symbian/Nokia users flock to Android, along with every old Samsung user, BB user, SE user, LG .... The war is over. Android has won, for better or worse, whether we like it or not. All that is left for Nokia is to fight over the scraps with Apple, and that is not exactly a recipe for success on the stock market.

This week the Lumia 610 came into the shelves. That phone could have been the turning point, but it is priced too high. It cannot compete with similarly priced Androids, it cannot even compete with the existing Symbian phones. The N8 costs roughly the same, and it is a MUCH better phone in all respects. It can't even compete with the Lumia 710. Right now the 710 costs less. But, I will give them the benefit of the doubt, the 610 looks real good, so maybe. The Lumia 800 is dead. The Lumia 900 has taken over.

It is increasingly harder to understand what Nokia is doing. They should be creating the third ecosystem, but they try to do it with overpriced HW. Why?