Symbian as a platform was originally designed for mobile phones but from what I can gather (from other people) has had it's day. Symbian is installed on almost all Nokia handsets but as a modern platform is showing it's limitations. Nokia open-sourced symbian but did that too late. It's fine for simple functionality but to compete as a smartphone OS then no not capable.

The key phrase here is smartphone. Loosely, defining smartphone as something along the lines of android & iPhone and the application support around that.

Nokia have failed with this (so far, e.g. N97).


With regards to mobile phones as defined by focused on making mobile calls then Nokia win by volume. Unfortunately these devices range from £20 to about £300 (ish). But also means profit margins on these are probably smaller than something retailing at £400 upwards. Then from a customer perspective iPhone, android & blackberries become more appealing.

As a result the ceiling price for a Nokia phone has been set.

Yep, Nokia lead the way with mobile phones as volume but the market is changing and the customer wants more from mobile devices.

In the smartphone market is seems to be the applications that are driving demand.
Nokia utterly fail to understand this.

I was thinking about Apple & Google.

Very true let's see what happens.