Nokia to support Symbian at least to 2014
The Australian reports that Nokia Australia’s Managing Director, Chris Carr has said that Nokia will continue to release Symbian phones in 2011, 2012 and those will continue to receive support for two years after (2014).
Chris Carr also says that Nokia is NOT tying themselves exclusively with Microsoft and says Symbian is far from dead (maybe on life support/terminal).
Just to repeat, Nokia will continue with Symbian as long as it remains profitable – Nokia commited to the long tail of Symbian. It’s just that now, focus has shifted towards Windows Phone.
The Australian Via Symbian-Freak
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the n8 should have come with maemo 6. this would have changed everything and nokia never had to choose windows phone.
yes, nokia is just not patient enough, they should give meego a chance and decide whether to go for windows phone or not, it will not dissapoint their userbase and is a good strategy.
Omg if my N8 had maemo it would be perfect…
i really wanted a meego device but now id rather have an android or wp7 tablet/smartphone
meego has true potential to be the best it was so customizable, the great ui, easy to make apps, fast etc
i tried meego on my laptop and it was fabulous, it booted up in less than 10 secs and worked flawlessly
in my opnion, most symbian users only need some famous third party free software like msn messenger, updated google maps, native facebook and twitter, and etc and top two iphone best seller games
and some significant improvement from nokia, like menu-less user interface, no more black background color, iphone have beautiful icons inside its app not just only app icons
actually the spec of current symbian phone is not that bad, people will still keep on buying it because the price/features
my only hope is that nokia keep on releasing meego phone after one or two years for the geeks
i want more apps and im sure symbian users will back me up,
the ovi store has grown tremendously this shows that we want apps?
Be assured that I don’t buy a mobile phone to look at “beautiful icons”. It is usability and performance that counts, and until now only Symbian fulfills the quest.
You can change the background of the menu by changing to one of the thousands of themes available on the Ovi Store. Bear in mind however that a black background contributes incredibly towards power-saving, and Android and iOS also both have black menus out of the box.
And why do you want Google Maps?
nokia to support symbian at least 2014 and to pick the windows phone (shit). i think nokia will change the elop will go with updated symbian and new meego with intel aliance. i think the intel procesors and nokia hardwer is best combination. when nokia sell windows phone i think is not nokia but microsoft phone and nokia will bancrupt.
after 2015 bye bye nokia
when is the nokia
annual meeting
3 may
2014 = windows 8 ?
Nokia *has* to say that now, during their Windows Phone transition, otherwise their current sales would fall through the floor.
More important than if Nokia supports it is if developers continue to develop new applications for the platform that aren’t already in the pipeline; somehow I doubt anybody is.
Exactly. If I were a develloper I’d be pissed and I wouldn’t care if they are gonna sell 20 million phones in Brasil and India and China- Symbian is doomed to die and 150 million devices is a hope and it’ll be feature phones too.
liars … i dont believe them ! same said last october …. People thats n8 with symbian3 and so nea gotta get the update for the amazin symbian4 !! now we all stucked on pr1.2 !! and the new pr2.0 or symbian anna for the newwer handsets to sell more !! Nokia=Lie
thanks god at least 3 more yrs to Have Symbian In our hands!!!!
Remember this is only in the Australian market where the Nokia sales are falling quicker than in other countries and where last year iPhone sales accounted for approximately half of mobile phone sales. This isn’t a strong market for Nokia and support in this market would be dropped at the same time as Nokia USA. In other countries, especially India, China and some African countries, support will continue past 2015 and probably into 2016 because a company is responsible for supporting a phone for 2 years after release and I’m guessing certain markets may receive new cheap devices in 2013 and even 2014 if need be.
>>a company is responsible for supporting a phone for 2 years after release
What? What law does require that?
e.g. german law
I’m not sure what “supporting” you guys mean?
Warranty? They are obliged, but updates they are not.
Also Bugfixes. Not feature additions.
Could be that it’ll be supported til 2014 but I suspect it’ll be profitable in the low market range and without much doing from nokia (in the 3rd world especially).
out, they are so understaffed/incapable, you’d think they need to write the whole OS anew.
But personally I don’t believe anything they say- before they said Symbian 3 is the future and Meego the high end future, then they say they both are not gonna be continued by Nokia. Now they obviously need customers to have faith in Symbian a little longer but I don’t see that Nokia is putting a lot of money in it- hell they need over a year to get a WP7 (or
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so should I say :” I will support Nokia until 2014″ ??
The key point to remember here is there is a big chance that there won’t be any highend, flagship Symbian devices anymore.
Eldar posted that they are readying a WP7 camera flagship based on the N8. Why would they release a Symbian camera flagship to compete with it?
Logical hence agreed
Good point.
Even now, it looks like Nokia is rapidly taking the Symbian platform down-market, with the use of cheaper fixed focus cameras (Edof) and the same old ARM 11 chipsets from three years ago, on their devices.
(And really, although it benefits the poor, there’s really not much exciting, from a gadget nerd perspective, about low spec budget devices.)
The N8 could well be the final specced out Symbian phone you’ll ever see.
Give me a date when Nokia will ditch windows as well
2015 when nokia wants to change its plans again, and they’ll spend billions of pounds on r&d to make it look like nokia can be great but then they join android :/
jakiś support był wogóle? system sypał sie tyle lat. teraz się wzieli
Want to see a classic example of how biased towards Windows Phone the bloggers on this site are?
Nokia (via Chris Carr) says Symbian is far from dead (as stated above and in the story). Then YOU Jay add “(maybe on life support/terminal)”. BULLSHIT. There is nowhere in the story on the Australian site that supports you adding this. And quite how you define a system that will have an installed base of around 300 million+ and whatever huge giant Ovi Store has grown into by then, as “on life support/terminal”, I don’t know.
Caught in the act mate. This site is little more than a desperate Windows Phone fanclub from hear on in. I’ll leave you to it, boys.
And for the record, Chris also says this in the story:
“Mr Carr said Symbian was far from dead — research and development was progressing, and Nokia was committed to producing Symbian and Windows 7 Phone devices through to 2012.
“There’s still a lot of ongoing development with Symbian, the two will co-exist. We’ve invested a lot of money in Symbian,” Mr Carr told reporters in Sydney.
“It’s not unusual in the industry to have multiple OS strategies.”
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“life support/terminal” my arse.
Holy jeez. What part of disliking/finding annoyance in symbian is NOT the same as liking Windows phone do you not understand? You claim to be a well known person in software so you are NOT some 12 year old child yet you act like one.
The thing in the bracket is what I’ve said. I often make comments and put them in brackets. (2014 is also in brackets as that was not said, but something I put in).
I’ve said that comment before. The fact that there is a freaking expiration date means that it is in effect dying. Why don’t you understand that?
When no one knows when something is ending, it is in effect NOT dead. When there is an expiration date for your platform, then yeah it’s dying. For people to say it’s not dead then I would say, yeah, like a terminal person isn’t dead, but they will soon be.
How about if it does well someday, it won’t be killed of!? How to know this yet!?
Not sure how to know for certain. But if it’s making money and somehow makes a turn around despite reduced resources (at it was already so slow with billions behind it) then they might as well keep it going past 2014.
It’s a sad state of affairs what has happened to our dear Symbian. Too slow to act and now it has become much too little too late.
Time will tell, even if I hope that it’ll make it through and be fully renewed, someday dropping S60 compatibility, I just don’t see any benefit from saying hey it ‘should’ die as many cry out loud?! Why would anyone benefit from the death of Symbian!?
Dude, you’ve lost it.
The CEO of Nokia, EOL’d Symbian. That’s a FACT.
Nokia underlings are back-tracking now, which is understandable: they need to keep the lights on in Espoo until they can roll out Windows Phone….phones.
But yeah, Symbian is as dead Windows Mobile 6.x; no, it’s not just resting, to paraphrase Monty Python.
Look at this way. Nokia is a profit driven business. If customers love Symbian enough, it will live on to whenever
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After seeing WP Mango update preview, my first taught is the transition from symbian to WP will speed up pretty quick (if nokia get their part right – hardware, those exclusive service & not forgetting marketing).
in 2014, I will jump aboard at a new ship. Im going to resign this summer anyway from NOkia. It was fun looking at people buying NOkia specially those who adore Symbian.
I helped everything I can to convince them to buy a Symbian phone but things happened so I can say anything good about Symbian anymore.
Thank you Nokia for your effort with me. I had fun with you and to all my colleagues at work.
I will continue to buy the very last Symbian device until to the very last date.
2014 will be a memorable date to me.
though based on SOME comments here, it seems that WE symbian fans were to be blamed for Nokia’s current state.
Good luck to you.
I dont understand why is nokia wastin maemo, they should hav released maemo 6 on n8