World’s largest Mobile Phone maker Nokia today reaffirmed its commitment to the Symbian platform and plans to continue to invest its own resources in developing Symbian, the world’s most widely used smartphone platform.
Nokia also said that company expects to deliver a strong portfolio of Symbian-based smartphones to people around the world.
Nokia is the volume market leader in smartphones and the company’s commitment to the Symbian platform is unchanged. Nokia smartphones based on the new Symbian platform include the Nokia N8, Nokia C7 and the new Nokia C6-01 which are available now, as well as the upcoming Nokia E7 which is expected to ship before the end of 2010. Nokia expects to sell more than 50 million Symbian^3-based devices.
“The future of Symbian as a platform does not depend on the existence of the foundation,” said Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President, Smartphones, Nokia.”The changes announced by the foundation have no impact on Nokia’s Symbian device roadmaps or shipping commitments. The platform powers hundreds of millions of smartphones – including our own – and we expect to deliver ongoing support and innovation benefitting the Symbian ecosystem in the future.”
Nokia’s recent decision to focus on Qt as its sole application development framework is expected to bring greater efficiency and speed of evolution to the Symbian platform.
This approach is aimed at ensuring compatibility for apps with future Symbian platform versions, and enables more frequent updates and upgrades for Nokia smartphones. To take advantage of this ever-growing opportunity, developers can find the tools and support they need through Forum Nokia, and global distribution to Nokia’s broad base of smartphones through Ovi Store.
Shoeb November 9, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Useless apps i must say..
Shoeb November 9, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Android is useless .. its got a whole bunch of stupid apps, really stupid…
ATHUL November 9, 2010 at 10:42 pm
I love my n82 and N73 symbian
Shoeb November 9, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Symbian is Nokia and Nokia is and Will be Symbian.. I had said this before also.
I love Symbian and i am and i will be with symbian a.k.a Nokia
sri November 9, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Are you an Enterprenuer or consumer? If you are a business man (Mobile Manufacturer) think about profit and loss, if you are a consumer or end user let us speak on the user requirements and benefits to user.
If Microsoft manufactures PC with OS, no computer revolution, how many of us will buy for that cost. (how many Apple PCs you are using, seen the people using them)
OS and device should be different entities. Please refer back our PC life.
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Rohan Singh November 9, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Nokia Care is a big cheater. I hate u Nokia.
Swapnil November 9, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Nokia+symbian is best …
TREMERIN DSOUZA November 9, 2010 at 3:48 pm
SYMBIAN can remain a champion but the google’s dirty politics is forcing all mobile operators to abandon Symbian in favor of android and now NOKIA is the only major force that carries SYMBIAN and develops it on it’s own may be someone will come to their rescue else the ship may drown.
Sandeep Gupta November 9, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Nokia is working with Meego > http://meego.com/;
Propitiatory OS is must for good and stable manufacture. If every body start selling google os phones. the profit margin will be zeroed. like computer products. so if largest will start android devices. They will kill there market share there own.
Like Iphone have its own ios >> and they are leaders presently.
Good step Nokia.
Nokia Fan November 9, 2010 at 2:54 pm
The most popular smartphone operating system in the world, It isn’t Android, iPhone or the BlackBerry OS. Say hello to Symbian, an open source mobile OS that’s nearly a decade old. More than 300 million devices worldwide run Symbian. Some 41 percent of smartphones have Symbian on them.
“If Nokia took Symbian back in-house, assuming control and leadership, and used Qt to create a good UI, Symbian would be a very different entity from what it is today”
Anirban Mukherjee November 9, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Damn good news for symbian lover.
Keshav Jha November 9, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Aisi bhi kya kasam leli Nokia ne? Agar Android logon ko pasand aa raha hai to Nokia ko usme bhi dekhna chahiye…
sri November 9, 2010 at 1:37 pm
All the mobile manufacturers should make mobiles with independent of OS. The end user is the one to decide what to OS use and when. Similar to our desktops and laptops.
Amit.g November 9, 2010 at 1:27 pm
WTF man y they want to stick to symbain???? Its better tat nokia should adopt android as well as symbain n manufacture phones whic attract different users
max November 9, 2010 at 1:04 pm
todays requirement is multi operating system
max November 9, 2010 at 1:00 pm
android 2.1 is amazing. nokia cant beat with symbian.
ARJUN November 9, 2010 at 12:33 pm
STUPID NOKIA MOST OF THE MOBILE MANUFACTURERS ARE USING ANDROID OPERATING AND WINDOWS O.S. ON THIER MOBILES BUT THIS NOKIA ALWAYS PREFER OLD TECHNOLOGY
sri November 9, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Dont know much about the flexibility and competitiveness with the Android, we have to watch them closely in coming days. Personal opinion is Nokia should also come on to Android for better results.Iphone users using iOS ( seperate segment of people) and the latest mobile entry and future may be Android and Is nokia going narrow????????