It may seem like one of those knee-jerk reactions that have been reported lately such as “Symbian is Dead”, but it is actually true. Well sort of.
The Really Mobile Project went to the official Nokia N900 meet up in London last night, and are reporting that the Maemo guys have said that Symbian will not feature as the OS in N-Series devices from 2012 forwards. Instead, a move to Maemo is favoured as the OS of choice for the top of the range devices.
A move of this kind has been on the cards for some time, with Symbian moving ever downwards into the cheaper handset base, and it struggling to keep up in terms of flashy eye candy with the likes of Apple and Android.
This may be seen by some, and somewhat of a kick in the teeth for the (relatively) newly formed Symbian Foundation. Especially as the Symbian Foundation hasn’t really had the opportunity to showcase it’s new releases just yet. But, herein may lie the problem, in the fact that the Symbian Foundation has been up and running for just over a year now, but we have still to see any devices come to market running the ‘new’ platform.
I see it more in the fact that Nokia hope to capture the imagination of the application developers with Maemo in a way they don’t seem to have ever been able to with Symbian.
What are your thoughts on this direction change for Nokia? Let us know in the comments.
UPDATE: So Nokia have (rather sluggishly) attempted to play down these reports, in what I would say, an attempt to try and sort out the mess they have got themselves into with the Symbian Foundation. Mark from over at The Nokia Blog has quoted the Nokia Corporate Communications team in that they claim this is all merely speculation on their future roadmap. No hint of a denial, I hasten to add. Head on over to the post to read it in full
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