Sad to see Italian tech media conflating S30+ with Symbian.
It makes me genuinely sad to see this level of misinformation from prominent tech journalists in Italy.
I just received this Google Alert for 'Symbian', which pointed me to a recent article on a major Italian site (HDblog.it) about a new nokia/HMD feature phone. In the snippet (visible below), they state:
"...The operating system will once again be S30+, the heir to that Symbian from Nokia's golden age just before the advent of smartphones..."
This is a deep disappointment. It feels like an erasure of mobile history. S30+ is in no way the 'heir' to the complex Symbian OS, that started the smartphone era. It's a low-end, generic platform. It’s disheartening that a tech-focused publication can't even maintain this basic distinction. Symbian deserves a proper memory, not to be conflated with a dumbphone OS.