I fell in love with Nokia Communicator's when I first laid eyes on the Nokia 9000. It took me on a journey where I've owned every single one all the way up to the E7. While the E7 wasn't officially named a Communicator, in every intent and purpose it was. Fold out keyboard, business orientated, flagship, the E7 had it all. Most importantly, it was a great phone.
Unfortunately, Nokia saw it fit to sell their phone business to Microsoft which butchered the brand. Microsoft wanted to push their new Windows Mobile OS on the phone, instead of carrying on Nokia's work with Symbian
(which was derived from the EPOC OS, i.e. Psion handhelds
).
What's done is done, and we're now all floating in a sea of phablets and tablets without any uniqueness. Reminiscing of my E7 and Symbian Belle, I decided to do a little Googling and found a custom firmware called "E7 Delight"
(Link) From what the page says, it's an improvement in many regards. For example, more memory on the phone and less RAM used. The links are all active, as are the downloads.
I'd love to give this ago, and thought I'd post it here in case any of you are still using the E7. If anyone has any info on other custom firmwares, I'd love to hear about them.