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Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Yeah, they will drop MeeGo now for sure.

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Itsnt that the thing with not having versions on Symbian and instead released partial updates and features.

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Symbian is the past and it looks like that is where Nokia is living . . . Meego is more experimental than Maemo IMO . . . and Android seems to be the only open mobile OS that is stable/complete enough for the masses . . . Just like what happend in the laptop / computer arena . . . . very soon the device manufacture won't matter so much as the specs and the OS

Unknown companies (like Acer was in the laptop/pc area) will rise using familiar components like snapdragon processors and a familiar OS like android and the company who manufactured the device will become less and less important . . .

History will repeat it self as it didn't in the 90's . . . Apple will remain in a niche / cult following and Android will do what Windows did on the PC . . . let the hardware manufactures duke it out while they watch from across the room laughing all the way to the bank . . .

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Eh, maybe Nokia should just face the truth, drop Symbian and start using Android for its devices, make a nice Symbian-like UI for it and spare its resources for MeeGo development for high-end devices.
Instead it looks like MeeGo will be another Maemo unifinished and Symbian will slowly die :-/

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

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Originally Posted by Biges (Post 867911)

so they should push android to lesser specced devices? that would be much more stupid than continue to use symbian.

btw what would nokia do with their maps and free navigation etc with android?

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Oh god, not that childish crap again.

Re: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia

Is my sarcasm meter broken or are you guys serious?

Scrapping all the work done for MFT and ORBIT from Symbian and going full force for Qt quick so we truly get cross platform between MeeGo and Symbian rather than doing partly wasted work before those changes have rolled out later on, doesn't it just solidify MeeGo and Symbians future? Very good decision from Elop if you ask me because imo one of the biggest problems in Nokia's OPK time have been that Symbian and Maemo have been living constant "between some big change" phase never delivering the end result as something else comes along.

It's just funny that there's reports from Nokia execs, including Elop every other day that MeeGo and Symbian are tied together and the main platforms for Nokia, but every report that's about Symbian or MeeGo means that one of the platforms will be scrapped. :D

Symbian is doing very well as yesterday just came report that Nokia's Finland factory is hiring more people(no numbers given) and Nokia's Beijing factory is hiring 800 people to keep up with the new S^3 devices demand. Symbian like already shown in the 2009 Nokia roadmap will be partly eating S40 and becoming Nokia's volume OS. Last quarter with no help from the S^3 devices Nokia sold more smartphones than ever and sold more smartphones compared to dumb phones than ever.

The N8 is Nokia's flagship smartphone with all the bells and whistles. So how do you balance that kind of expectation with the upcoming MeeGo?

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Originally Posted by Savander

The N8 is not the highest-end product we're aiming for. MeeGo will definitely come above the Symbian range in terms of functionality and price. If you look at the Symbian products, they are priced at the lower-end of the high tier in most markets, below the iPhone and competing with the Android devices.

So do you see Symbian eventually going to the midrange market segment?

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Originally Posted by Savander

Absolutely. If you think about the platform choices, we have Series 40 to drive costs down in feature phones. Then we have Symbian, which is our predominant platform for smartphones, becoming more and more affordable. So we are also driving costs down for this very aggressively. That leaves us with the need to have one more platform where we worry less about the cost and more about putting in functionalities at the very high end, with slightly less consideration for the final price.

Then we have the development environment on top of it, so Qt is a very important developer toolset we have that runs on both Symbian and MeeGo. This is where we broaden the base for the developer in terms of volume

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http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/mobilep...2204005,00.htm

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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"

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Tipps if your company has to ride a dead horse: Link