Those who know me well know that I am an avid S60 and Nokia fan, but this fanboy’ism (of fangirl’ism?!) is not unconditioned nor did it come without tests and trials. But let’s go back to the beginning of the story, shall we?
How I came to S60

Some 4 years ago, I was introduced to S60 through a friend of mine who had just bought a Nokia 6630 for over 500$ no less. I remember looking at the phone and telling her "it’s just a phone" and I clearly remember her answer "no, it’s a smartphone". At the time, I couldn’t care any less about smart or dumb, but she started installing applications on it, and it isn’t until I saw her running a dumbed-down version of Word and Excel that I understood the difference that a "smart"phone can bring. That’s when I decided that my next device will be running S60.
For many reasons, a year later, I went with the Nokia 3250 XpressMusic, the first S60 3rd Edition phone released by Nokia. I explored every single lighted and dark corner of that handset, I came up with tricks that very few people had discovered, I customized the hell out of it with applications, themes, games,… The 3250 was, and yes it’s funny to say that now, my powerstation. It was as robust as can be, internally by taking everything I threw at it, and externally by still functioning even after having kissed the ground more than I care to remember or admit.

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