The Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional version works with touchscreen phones and can recognize a standard set of gestures: tap, tap and hold, pan and flick.

Like Windows Mobile devices, a Symbian-based device is ready for action as soon as it comes out of the box. Telephone, messaging and Internet access features are the key virtues in most Symbian OS ...

But instead of continuing with a new era of Windows Mobile design, the company chose the very bold path of Windows Phone 7 Series (Microsoft, thankfully, later dropped ‘Series’ from the name).