I'm going with Nokia being lazy/too much infighting among various phone teams.
I looked at the specs of some of the Symbia^2 phones that were released in Japan, around the same time as the N8 and Symbian^3, and there you had a WVGA screen, 13.2MP Camera, waterproof to 1.5M, several other features. The N8 was a huge jump from everything else Nokia had done before and it was still lacking compared to what was otherwise being done.
The word 'Pentaband' means '5 Bands', from the Greek word 'pente' meaning '5'. For a phone to be pentaband it has to support 5 bands. If the phone has AWS support, it doesn't automatically mean that it is pentaband. The reason Wind and Mobilicity users like pentaband phones is because the reverse is true. We're not the only ones who like pentaband phones though, so please stop referring to phones that work on Wind and Mobilicity as pentaband. It causes unnecessary cofusion.
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