Nokia Ends Symbian Era

[CommanderFrank]

Nokia has announced that the Nokia 808 PureView would be the last Symbian device made by Nokia. It’s an end of an era that began in 1998 and was the most popular mobile OS until overtaken by Apple.

“The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia.”

 

[heatlesssun]

Looks like Nokia is slowly but surely righting the ship, those as a smaller player. They made a profit last quarter for the first time in 18 months. Yeah, Symbian just got old.

 

[LeviathanZERO]

Good riddance.
The absolute refusal to innovate with anything remotely useful after OS3, makes it the worst phone OS still around. It's comedic that the EU tried the save the Symbian foundation with a bailout.

 

[Jagger100]

Idk, I think Android more than Apple made the most recent gains and is slightly bigger now too, so I think you can say Android finished Symbian.

 

[heatlesssun]

Idk, I think Android more than Apple made the most recent gains and is slightly bigger now too, so I think you can say Android finished Symbian.

Remember, iPhones are almost 8 years old now and were selling in large numbers long before the first popular Android phones.

 

[Ashbringer]

 

[c3141hf]

Looks like Nokia is slowly but surely righting the ship, those as a smaller player. They made a profit last quarter for the first time in 18 months. Yeah, Symbian just got old.

Righting the ship? The ship was just fine until a Microsoft shill was appointed as their CEO and made the stupid decision to throw all their resources behind Windows Phone.

 

[heatlesssun]

Righting the ship? The ship was just fine until a Microsoft shill was appointed as their CEO and made the stupid decision to throw all their resources behind Windows Phone.

You are the first person I've heard that thought that Nokia was doing just fine before Elop's arrival. I'm not making any judgments about Elop's performance, but saying that Nokia was doing just fine before Elop would be a tough sell to most I think.

 

[toast0]

You are the first person I've heard that thought that Nokia was doing just fine before Elop's arrival. I'm not making any judgments about Elop's performance, but saying that Nokia was doing just fine before Elop would be a tough sell to most I think.

Nokia was in a long term platform transition before Elop; but they were selling the most phones of any manufacturer in smart phones, and in feature phones. The n900 got incredible press when it became available after Elop came in, but they only sold it in smaller countries, presumably because Elop didn't want to sell something better than windows phone 7 devices. I'm pretty sure their sales wouldn't have tanked as bad if Elop hadn't shot off his mouth either http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/.a/6a00e0097e337c8833017c3636bfac970b-pi

 

[heatlesssun]

Nokia was in a long term platform transition before Elop; but they were selling the most phones of any manufacturer in smart phones, and in feature phones. The n900 got incredible press when it became available after Elop came in, but they only sold it in smaller countries, presumably because Elop didn't want to sell something better than windows phone 7 devices. I'm pretty sure their sales wouldn't have tanked as bad if Elop hadn't shot off his mouth either http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/.a/6a00e0097e337c8833017c3636bfac970b-pi

I am aware of this and the N900 and I do admit that that was strange. But Microsoft is providing Nokia with a lot of cash and it wasn't a bad idea for Nokia to get out of the OS side of the phone business.

 

[Iratus]

Sad day for me personally, I worked for Symbian for several years and then for Nokia when they bought them out.

It needed to be taken out the back and shot, but really it was Nokia that killed it years before they bought it out. Basically they wouldn't prioritize any development effort to modernize it because their internal development cycles were completely screwed. S60 was a clusterfuck of a development organisation, they bought Symbian principally to sort that out but the politics stopped it and the developers left and went to places like.. well Google. Dooming it.

If all the development time hadn't been clogged with variant creation (let's branch it for every for phone) and bug fixes were maybe brought back into main code line from branches then it would have stood a chance. You should judge Symbian by the Japanese phones not by Nokia. Not many people, even in the tech press, realized that Symbian had like a 70% share of the Japanese phone market at one point.

Ah well, end of an era.

 

[BladeVenom]

Symbian was still more popular than Windows until the last quarter.