Actually, Series80 (on the Nokia Communicators) did not have a touchscreen. Series90 (on the Nokia 7710) had touch-screen support. Series90 was killed off after one model, however it seems that UI design from Series90 flowed into the Nokia Internet Tablers (Maemo UI for linux). Series80 was killed to make Series60 mainstream, and make S60 be the end-all-and-be-all of Nokia smartphones: business, entertainment, casual smartphone user.
One UI and OS is better than three incompatible ones.
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Admiral @ Aug 29th 2007 8:03PM
Actually, Series80 (on the Nokia Communicators) did not have a touchscreen. Series90 (on the Nokia 7710) had touch-screen support. Series90 was killed off after one model, however it seems that UI design from Series90 flowed into the Nokia Internet Tablers (Maemo UI for linux). Series80 was killed to make Series60 mainstream, and make S60 be the end-all-and-be-all of Nokia smartphones: business, entertainment, casual smartphone user.
One UI and OS is better than three incompatible ones.