Symbian in itself is absolutely fine with low hardware requirements. As a mobile phone OS its perfect. But Nokia is trying to push it further into the smartphone field and they shouldn't be doing that.

If Nokia wants to continue to make Symbian phones that's fine but don't try and sell it as a smartphone and expect users to pay top-end prices for it - it's bad value for money and bad for Nokia's reputation.

Nokia abandoned a perfectly working smartphone OS (maemo) and decided to start again with Meego - a "new" OS with new bugs on a new device. Effectively they've lost the momentum they had at the end of last year and back at the beginning again.

Nokia will have a tough few months trying to be credible competitor in the high-end smartphone market and hopefully they can turn things around.