Lots of backtracking today. I'm sure they did not anticipate the amount of loyal Symbian fans out there. Someone also forgot to tell the boss that you cant run WP on low end hardware, and that there wont be a WP device until 2012. So what are they going to do for 10 Months.

So Symbian seems to have a slightly longer term life, but will be phased out, this is NOT news. It was the case before Friday, but everyone had bought into the Qt migration. Light bulb has come on with Elop, so Qt gets a stay of execution, and teases support of s40.

"We still believe it is important to launch the MeeGo device b/c it contains a series of new exciting technologies".

If Elop was bright about this, he should have dropped S40, push S3 into the lowend now, and disrupt that end of the market, gives good reason for Qt to be strategic, and allows Nokia breathing room to sort Meego, while he is earning a crust with WP7.