... do they run Linux?

That was exactly my reaction... Broadband was available, and a company like Microsoft would have been in a position to make it available (i.e. pay the local cable company to extend their broadband network to his home). I know of a much smaller (10 person) company who paid the local telco to install a T1 line outside city limits for their CEO not much later than 2000.

It is just that Microsoft as a whole viewed the Internet at the time as a "not-invented-here" competition that they could overtake with proprietary breakage like Internet Explorer...

Keep watching here: https://github.com/DP-3T?tab=r...

Yes, see https://www.pepp-pt.org/

A proposal for tracking apps without compromising privacy: https://github.com/DP-3T/docum... More at https://www.pepp-pt.org/

I hope Dell makes theirs part of Project Sputnik.

RIP Roblimo... :-(

It's as good an explanation as any...

In the link provided shows the reaction of the CDT, where "CDT Senior Counsel Harley Geiger" states quite the opposite: "This is quite disappointing given the consensus by the public, Congress, the President, and two independent review groups that ending bulk collection is necessary"

Yes, this kind of camera has been available for almost two years now...The Nokia 808, which runs Symbian, and supports Qt-based apps, is still the best existing camera phone. Apparently, the Lumia 1020 has some improvements.

What is the current guess at a release date for it?

The carrier who would be best positioned (at least in Europe) to offer a decent data roaming option due to their relationship with the German carrier of the same name, and who partially owns them, only provides the insane price of $15 per MB (yes, per megabyte) for international data roaming. For comparison, Verizon and AT&T provide 100 MB for $20...

No I am comparing the iPhone 5 camera (released 2012) to the Nokia N8 camera (released 2010)

What about them? They require a separate app, Symbian had it built in, and the "Internet calling" capability was integrated directly with the contacts, you could choose to call using cell phone or SIP from the same dialer (including using 3G data, not only WiFi). It is just one example of things that have been standard on Symbian years before other platforms had them. Another example, the panorama picture feature on iPhone 5 - that was available years earlier on Symbian. As I said, it is not one single thing, it is the combination of OS features and hardware capabilities that was superior.

What is worse is that it is hard to find any existing Symbian devices...

For all the drawbacks of Symbian, the combination of a camera that put to shame any other cellphones, and the built-in capabilities of the phone (e.g. a complete SIP stack, integrated with the regular phone functionality) is still unmatched. Even Nokia themselves cannot replicate the hardware capabilities of the 808 in a Windows phone, because the OS can't handle them...