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No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

I don't think he said that. He simply said that they aren't going to take symbian "in house". that's a very different thing. symbian foundation is being wound down. it does not have funding to continue. Symbian will continue. the foundation will not. Symbian should have been Android. It lost the battle. now it is becoming the "in house" smartphone OS of Nokia.

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

+1 Very good read.


Uiemo is now shelved/dead, but at least Nokia is working to have cross app functionality between Symbian & Meego. The latter IMO is extremely important because a device like the N900 was on its own island for the longest time. Now whenever the N9 gets launched, it should hopefully have more apps at launch than the N900 did...

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

Great article! Thanks for posting.

good points "This gave rise to the situation we have today with a technically sophisticated and mature core OS, but a UI that is widely perceived as lagging behind. "

"As a result, the core OS of Symbian is comfortably the most sophisticated and technically capable of any of the major mobile platforms, primarily due to its maturity, experience in use and a heavy level of investment over the years."

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

very good read on the future of Symbian and Meego

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu...mbian_plat.php

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

Same here..................

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

Inept i feel you hit the nail on the head with that, i feel the same way

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

Let me reword for your low comprehension level: You're perpetually satisfied, not because of your research, but because you blindly accept and defend device limitations.

And read again, I never said anything about the N97. The devices used were the E72 and N97 mini. And the N97 did perform well if you took advantage of Nokia offering to fix the problem. I've had personal experience with the E71/E72/N97mini and all get GPS locks in seconds while the Captivate struggles. The Captivate performance is well documented and even affirmed by your own experience. Just admit it has a problem.

http://www.trentsense.com/2010/09/gp...ce-on-e72.html

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

I own both a Nokia n8 and a Samsung captivate. I can say for sure the GPS on the captivate is broken. It take for forever to lock on to a signal but my Nokia n8 locks on within seconds.

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

Inept, +1. The only thing I would add (besides the comment that I think indications are that many of these things were started even before Elop joined), based on what Savander said on CNet Asia today, is that SF might continue in some "light" form. Even if doesn't, Symbian would continue to be open source.


"Samsung and Sony Ericsson have both backed out of the Symbian Foundation, leaving Nokia and Fujitsu as the key phone-makers on the foundation's board. Does Nokia have any plans to bring Symbian in-house?
I don't see any reason for that. What would be the benefit of doing that? We have made it open source, so it's, of course, up to the different users whether they want to use it. The whole notion behind the open-source community is that people can choose to leave or not to leave. We have quite a few Japanese vendors that are pushing Symbian products. The Symbian Foundation will exist as an open source movement and we will use it. Other people are welcome to use it if they want to. If they don't, that's not going to change things. That's how open source works. "

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/mobilep...2204005,00.htm

Assuming this is the final truth, perhaps at least Nokia and some Japanese vendors keep providing a bit of funding for it to stay open.

Some good analysis (ya ya I know, AAS cannot be trusted on anything) here as well:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu...mbian_plat.php

No more talks of Symbian^4 as Symbian will be upgradable

Wow never knew symbian foundation were having money problems, hell i will now be surprised if nokia actually delivers on its promise to upgrade S^3 with some of s^4's features