Thread: nokia NEW asha series 305, 306, 311 - meltemi?
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2012-06-07 , 04:05
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Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Because Symbian is considered as a smart phone OS and the (world record stupid) contract between Nokia and Microsoft forbids to use any other smart phone OS but WindowsPhone (WP).
You don't know that. Besides, S40 is every bit a smartphone OS as WP7 is a smartphone OS. The Asha series are all smartphones IMO, simple and single tasking, but smartphones nevertheless. Symbian is much more complex than S40. Putting Symbian on low end phones like the Asha makes no sense.

List of OS used by Nokia:

S30 -> Super low end
S40 -> Low end "feature" phones and Asha smartphones
Symbian S60 -> Low end smartphones
Symbian Belle (Nokia Belle) -> Smartphones
MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan -> Smartphones
WP7.X Tango -> Low mem and cheaper Smartphone
WP7X -> Smartphones


Soon the list will be:
S30 -> Super low end
S40 -> Low end "feature" phones and Asha smartphones
WP7.X Tango -> Low mem and cheaper Smartphone
WP7X -> Smartphones
WP8 -> (Hopefully) high end smartphones.


And finally:
S30 -> Super low end
S40 -> Low end "feature" phones and Asha smartphones
Android -> Smartphones