18 November 2009
Nokia Has Declined To Confirm The Plans
About Ditch Symbian On Nseries Smartphones!?
 According to the Really Mobile Project blog, Nokia will abandon Symbian for all its Nseries devices, the company said at a meeting of Maemo enthusiasts in London.
There are number of highend Symbian powered devices in development so it won't be immediate though, but gradual with the transition being brought to completion by 2012!
Tanja Sauvola from the Maemo marketing team let slip that the company will abandon Symbian S60 entirely in favour of its own swizzy OS by 2012, meaning future devices will run software similar to what the Nokia N900 packs now.
However, the phone giant has reacted quickly and strongly insists that srtory reported by Really Mobile Project blog and others were untrue, adding that it remains "strongly committed" to the Symbian mobile operating system.
When contacted by V3.co.uk for further details, Nokia would neither confirm nor deny the plans.
“While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we’d like to explicitly communicate that we remain firmly committed to Symbian as our smartphone platform of choice. Any speculation on what our 2012 roadmap, including operating systems and product branding, are completely premature.”
Nokia has previously been reported as considering Maemo its platform of choice for high-end devices, with the Symbian OS relegated to mainstream and low-end handsets, and the company's statement possibly hints at this split.
“As we have stated earlier, Nokia has multiple platforms to serve different purposes and address different markets. Symbian is more successful than ever in bringing smartphones to the masses. Maemo is our software of choice for devices based on technology that you’d typically find inside a desktop computer. It delivers a different user experience and enables us to widen the market we can address.”
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