Kudos for Steve Litchfield on Allaboutsymbian  for a good coverage of multitasking functionality in Symbian based phones. Nowadays you can't spend a day without reading a couple of praises about Apple inventing this and that. The latest today was a comment on the Symbian Foundation brand - comment saying that the brand should somehow "take the innovation crown from iPhone". Not sure what that means.

I have only used EPOC based devices since Nokia 9210 communicator, so my experience doesn't go back 16 years. Still, I do get a bit surprised when respected professional people go all nuts over hype without checking facts first. Steve's article is a good reminder of how things sometimes aren't how they are presented to be. I could hardly believe my eyes when the press was salivating over iPhone now have COPY-PASTE functionality. I mean copy-paste, seriously. There are technology journalists, bloggers, and even R&D people out there who think that Apple has either invented or was the first company to use touch screen, accelerometers, mobile applications, etc. They weren't. They were the first company to turn these into a success in the US, and into a fashion item worldwide, or an object of desire, as my friend John would say. They have done that well.



The lovely Linda from 9 years ago, my first MMS, my first color screen, my first EPOC. Came with a tiny digital camera with IrDA connection.

Yeah now you're gonna say that she works for Nokia so she's just sour for Nokia to lose the edge. Yeah that's right, I would like for Nokia to take more risk and launch devices that don't look like copies of the previous model. At the same time, I would want Nokia to keep its own way of doing things and not copy Apple, Rim or anyone else.

With the Symbian and S60 software now going open source, there's more possibility for people to influence what the software will look like, how usable and what functionalities are supported.