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I can't help but thinking that Nokia is horribly managed. The amount of inferior products they sold to their loyal audience over and over again, until we were all so fed up with it: different proprietary cables on same-years' devices, stagnant software development and replacing durable with cheap plastics and materials.

Much of the nostalgia connected with this brand is from its early phone days, it's been an utter mess since.

To that extend, there are very little highlights since then.

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It depends on what you mean the early days. Nokia cheap phones were targetting a specific market, that did not want something more expensive. Bashing them for those phones makes no sense, since there were targetting markets that couldn't afford something else.

However, top of the line Nokia phones were had great hardware and construction quality. Look up Nokia E51 or Nokia N9.

What hobbled them was Symbian. Nokia N9 was close to "escape velocity" since the OS was really cool. But by then Nokia pivoted to Microsoft and...

> Much of the nostalgia connected with this brand is from its early phone days, it's been an utter mess since.

In the early times there were great phones by Nokia, but also among the later ones there were great ones. Just mention "Nokia N900" on HN and get detailed explanations... ;-)

I'm afraid I cannot let a mention of the N900 pass by without babbling about it. I still use my N900, from 2009, every day. It's a full pocket Linux workstation. I can't believe any company actually made such a thing; it'll never happen again.

Am using mine ATM. It may lack "elegant design" and 4g but it makes up for it with usability, physical keyboard, swappable battery & expandable storage. It also can be reassembled and used after most falls up to 20 feet onto solid surfaces(my Nexus 4 failed after dropping from my pants pocket onto carpet). It is the only smart smartphone I have encountered since 2007.

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