Nokia Discontinues Symbian, Once a Leading Smartphone OS

[zakislam]

808 PureView handset is the last device to launch with Symbian.

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[machvelocy]

A bit of sad farewell, Symbian belle is not that bad for a mobile OS, I had one (Nokia 701) before I switch to a htc one last year, the UI are smooth and quite polished, however apps loading are indeed slow (relative to iOS and android), and lacks of it in their marketplace.

 

[belardo]

Wow... I can feel the outpouring and rage about the death of Symbian...

 

[lascar30]

It's time to move forward.

 

[Guest]

To be more correct, they will not be releasing another symbian^3 powered phone. However, they are still officially supporting and develping the OS until at least 2016.

 

[Cryio]

At least it went out with a bang. Pure View is the greatest Symbian phone ever made, and Nokia Belle 2, as an OS, is all a phone really needs. If all you want is just phone with some tricks.

 

[mariusmotea]

The big profiit in last 2012 has come from phones with symbian for Nokia. Now is all or nothing with windows phone.

 

[NightLight]

3 words: about damn time! it was indeed once the greatest os, but now it's just old

 

[Guest]

Correction: Symbian was a joint venture between Psion and Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson did not exist in 1998, it was formed in 2001 as a joint venture between Sony and the Swedish telecommunications equipment company Ericsson.

 

[_TuxUser_]

Funny thing is that during X-Mas sales Nokia Symbian Smartphones outsold the Lumia phones 2 to 1.

 

[Vorador2]

One of the best phones i ever had was a Nokia N73, with Symbian of course. It never failed me.

Symbian was good, but it's time to move on.

 

[Guest]

You had a great life Symbian

 

[K2N hater]

[citation][nom]_TuxUser_[/nom]Funny thing is that during X-Mas sales Nokia Symbian Smartphones outsold the Lumia phones 2 to 1.[/citation]
Lumia has some massive marketing/advertisement and that's the reason for the sale numbers. Symbian phones on the other hand had their prices cut.

 

[olaf]

Yet they still did't make an Android phone... guess it will take bankruptcy to make that happen...

 

[CrArC]

I still miss its progenitor, Psion with the EPOC OS. Was far ahead of its time and then it all went downhill. Still rocking my Series 5 MX though.