Well, along with the death of the KIN last week, another piece of shocking news came out about the closure of Symbian-Guru.  I've known Ricky from my Moderator days over at Howard Forums, and I've been following him on twitter.  Anyone who had won't be surprised at the distance between him and Nokia.

This morning I also listened to All About Symbian and they had some thoughts on the subject - interesting  but few.  I guess what describes me is a Nokia Fanboi in Exile (also an SonyEricsson Fanboi in Exile).  Quite honestly I've used MANY Nokias and SE phones over the years, and I've wanted to make the transition to newer generation smartphones, but their hardware just stinks.  The most common thing is the radio frequency - you can't really get quadband or quintband UMTS phones from these manufacturers (only exception is the upcoming N8 by Nokia), and most phones I've had from them are low on memory - quite a problem if you're coming from an iPhone :)

As far as Symbian goes, I like the OS - it just doesn't have the apps that I would love to use.  I think that the iPhone was really spoiled me in that I expect to have non-browser based apps for RSS, music, and news. Yes I can go to a website, but the formatting is generally not that great.  I think that Symbian really needs to have one unified app store for all the hardware manufacturers, and they need to get some app developers in to create the last.fm or pandoras of Symbian.  I also think that HTC needs to get into the action and make some sweet hardware for this OS.  

So Symbian-Guru is out, one less place for symbian news on the web, but it's not worth being frustrated by a device that you ultimately use for productivity purposes.  You must use what works for you - which is why I use an iPhone :)