Symbian-Developers
News => Nokia News => Symbian News => Topic started by: SANJAY on January 24, 2013, 09:35:22 pm
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Stephen Elop, the CEO of NOKIA has f-cked the company going in favor of Windows OS. Today the company officially announced that their own and our beloved OS, The SYMBIAN OS, is now officially dead and the 808 PureView is the last device to run it.
Nokia announced the news alongside its great Q4 results today, which showed $585 million profit and $10.83 billion in revenue.
During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian. The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia.
Symbian OS on Nokia devices has played a key part in the smartphone game over the past ten years, but its significance was severely reduced once the touchscreen revolution started. Some of the most notable phones to come out of Nokia were powered by Symbian - beginning with the 9210 Communicator. The Nokia E61 started a messenger phone hype that peaked with the E71, making Symbian OS the only viable competitor to the then-strong BlackBerry portfolio of messengers.
Then came the cameraphone era, which gave birth to devices like the Nokia N95, which was widely regarded as the king of the smartphone hill in its day. The Nokia N8 came at a time when Symbian was rapidly sliding into irrelevancy but still made a huge splash among camera-lovers with its large sensor and superb image quality. Heck we loved snapping photos with it and it's still the most popular smartphone in our database with over 25 million hits.
Nokia began a shift towards Windows Phone in the beginning of 2011 and starting now Redmond's mobile OS is Nokia's only smartphone platform.
This is very sad :'( :'( :'(
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I'm really depressed as I read this news about our Symbian. :'(
A era is going to end!
I'm so sad!!! :'(
I hate the MS trojan Stephen Flop!!! >:D
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I'm really depressed as I read this news about our Symbian. :'(
A era is going to end!
I'm so sad!!! :'(
I hate the MS trojan Stephen Flop!!! >:D
It's really very sad news !
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As long as we keep supporting the Symbian OS how can it die? Just because Nokia won't produce anymore phones, at least the 808PV is still a live phone and will receive support. If the developers memo is to be believed they are still doing product development for the 808 to at least 2016. Gives enough time for that ****** Microsoft trojan Elop who needs to die horribly >:( to be sacked. And since they aren't giving a dividend to the shareholders I can't see his or the current board's tenure lasting too long :D, unless they think they will get a big payout when Microsoft finally buys the company and consigns it to the dustbin after asset stripping it like Sega. If they think the dedicated Symbian supporters will switch to Windows they are sadly mistaken. I hope someone will release the bootlock codes to Jolla so we can then convert our phones to Meego.
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As long as we keep supporting the Symbian OS how can it die? Just because Nokia won't produce anymore phones, at least the 808PV is still a live phone and will receive support. If the developers memo is to be believed they are still doing product development for the 808 to at least 2016. Gives enough time for that ****** Microsoft trojan Elop who needs to die horribly >:( to be sacked. And since they aren't giving a dividend to the shareholders I can't see his or the current board's tenure lasting too long :D, unless they think they will get a big payout when Microsoft finally buys the company and consigns it to the dustbin after asset stripping it like Sega. If they think the dedicated Symbian supporters will switch to Windows they are sadly mistaken. I hope someone will release the bootlock codes to Jolla so we can then convert our phones to Meego.
Mind you're language on here.. I personally don't mind it but we are a public forum.
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Mind you're language on here.. I personally don't mind it but we are a public forum.
He is trying to refuse the truth ;)
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haha nice pic. I also believe it's true.
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Even though we have all been told symbian boatloaders are locked.......it makes us never regret buying a symbian phone from nokia and hence making us wish we can use an updated smartphone in this fast changing world. But the bare facts will have to push us in such forums to evolve into a positive force, symbian oficials never dreamed of. Let's all come together and evolve symbian into the future......... Thanks y'all !!!!!!!
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The news is up again ot final expulsion of symbian devices from nokia offices.........RIP SYMBIAN....... http://www.phonearena.com/news/End-of-summer-means-end-of-Symbian-for-Nokia_id43952