Thread: Article to read, about E90 and Hildon.
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2007-08-04 , 21:12
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
They made a business decision that S80 is a niche product with little 3rd party app support, that the field of handheld computer-like devices is getting very competitive, and that the migration to S60 was necessary to keep the product successful.
I heard it was down to cost - the new phones used different architectures and chipsets, and it was cheaper to modify S60 to support the new screen formats / keyboards / dual screens etc. than it was to update S80.

I must admit, seeing a SatNav program working on the outer screen does show the power of the new E90 that would never have been possible with the old S80.

As for a lack of 3rd party app support, most of the S80 developers are constantly moaning about the flakey APIs they have to use which often crash, so maybe Nokia should look closer to home for the cause of the demise of S80...