Symbian OS is one of Nokia’s mobile operating systems for mobile devices and smartphones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, originally developed by Symbian Ltd (via Wikipedia).
Quite recently, Aldo Liguori, a spokesman for Sony Ericsson informed Bloomberg, said that they have no plans for developing any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system. As of now, Nokia is the only major manufacturer that will continue using Symbian on high-end devices now. Not to mention, recently Nokia launched three new Symbian Phones.
Symbian had a market share of 51% which dropped to 41% in 2010 whereas Android, which had mere 2% Share has gone up to 17% in 2010. This clearly indicates the growing market of Android.
Sony Ericsson’s CTO, Jan Uddenfeldt said,
“Android is definitely our focus, but we have not given up on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system, although it had a bit slow to take off. But Windows 7 Phone is on the roadmap. However, we have at present no plans for new products with Symbian.”
What’s your take on this? Symbian vs Android? Will Sony contribute to Symbian community? Please share your opinions below.
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It may be the time to start saying good bye to symbian
In my opinion, the Android will become the market leader for cell phone OS in near future.
I like Android a lot more then symbian
I hate Symbian, It sucks. It works good for 6 months or so and then shows it face
Symbian was the pioneer of smartphones. But today it is still carrying on the features that was 5 years ago, though polished but same.
The worst games available for Android or iOS are the best titles available for Symbian – one sentence example explains it all. 🙂
amd this Article makes it easy to sell my n97. 😛
I find Android vastly superior to Symbian, glad to see progress!