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The Blogosphere’s a buzz with a recent report that Nokia will be ditching Symbian in their high end Nseries devices, which will in-turn be powered by the Maemo OS instead. Apparently a Maemo Representative from Nokia told this to Ben Smith over at TRMP during a recent N900 Meetup.
Symbian will continue to be an integral part of Nokia’s XpressMusic, Xseries and Eseries devices though, but the Nseries devices will run on the eye-candy & feature rich Maemo OS.
Here’s Nokia’s official response to the matter :
While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we’d like to explicitly communicate that we remain firmly committed to Symbian as our smartphone platform of choice. Any speculation on what our 2012 roadmap, including operating systems and product branding, are completely premature.
As we have stated earlier, Nokia has multiple platforms to serve different purposes and address different markets. Symbian is more successful than ever in bringing smartphones to the masses. Maemo is our software of choice for devices based on technology that you’d typically find inside a desktop computer. It delivers a different user experience and enables us to widen the market we can address.
[via: TheNokiaBlog]
Whereas Symbian had this to say on their Twitter Account :
Ha ! So true.
Personally, its easy to believe this sort of thing. Maemo has more eye-candy, looks more “pretty” and seems to be quite capable right now.
But by 2012, wont Symbian be up to par, if not way better in those terms? According to the Symbian Roadmap they should be on Symbian^5 by then (They’re presently on Symbian^1 with the N97 and 5800 XM’s S60v5 OS). Which means the OS and the “eye candy” will be way, waaaaaay improved by then.
It still remains to be seen if this Maemo-replacing-Symbian “prediction” is true or not. 2012′s a bit far off, and you never know.
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