Thread: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia
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2010-11-09 , 11:51
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Originally Posted by johnel View Post
Nokia have also decided to take Symbian development back in-house and out of open-source development - Nokia Takes Over Symbian Development

Effectively Nokia are removing themselves from the high-end smartphone market and continuing to be a "budget" handset maker.

That's the problem with Symbian - its a low resource OS perfect for low-spec phones but people are demanding more from it.

My partner has a Nokia 5800 and her biggest criticism is the web browser sucks and she wants somethng more akin to Android or Windows Mobile 7.

There goes another pesky Nokia customer.

Maybe thats the plan with MeeGo - "As a Nokia customer MeeGo elsewhere"
Like i already said and every Nokia exec have been saying for past year MeeGo is the high end. Symbian is low resource OS where they can drive costs down and get largest user base for Qt. Problem of course is that there's no MeeGo phone out there yet.

If you have been following the news there's no Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 anymore. There will be Symbian that starts from S^3 and phones will get continues updates towards the Qt UI.

First update will be early next year for all S^3 devices. Portrait QWERTY, new browser, split screen input and 46 other changes. Arrives early 2011 for new and existing devices. The new browser beta has been seen on youtube but it's taken down by Nokia. Thought this being internet i'm sure it's somewhere.

 

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