Thread: Seems Symbian is the only future plan for Nokia
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2010-11-09 , 10:52
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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.

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?
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?

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
Last edited by tissot; 2010-11-09 at 17:54.
 

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