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A lot of blogs were buzzing today morning, about a rumour run by the Guardian and NokiaMobileTalk that an “Industry Insider” told them that Nokia was planning on announcing a phone at Nokia World 2009 this September, that would be running on Google’s Android OS.
Obviously this created ripples across Symbian fans everywhere. Nokia however have issued a press release denying any such upcoming device.
Straight from the press release :
TALLINN (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it was not working on introducing a phone running on Google’s Android operating system.
British daily The Guardian said on Monday the Finnish mobile phone maker was understood by industry insiders to be developing a smartphone that runs on Google’s Android software, to be introduced in September.
“Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever,” said a Nokia spokesman.
Google’s Android is a rival to Nokia’s Symbian software.
“Everyone knows that Symbian is our preferred platform for advanced mobile devices.”
Google’s Android has got a lot of traction in the cellphone industry, with many vendors planning to introduce phones using it, but so far only a few Android phones have reached consumers.
So there you have it. I found this news to be very much ridiculously impossible to believe when I first heard about it, so I’m happy that Nokia have gone on record to deny it.
That being said, I definitely agree with Mark over at TheNokiaBlog that, Symbian does need a facelift asap. Would a Nokia Google Android Device be that bad afterall ?
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