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Nokia answers back: Symbian stays, so does Maemo

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Nokia answers back: Symbian stays, so does Maemo - read the full textJust a couple of days ago Maemo team suggested Nokia has plans to ditch Symbian as an OS of choice for its N-series devices in favor of Maemo. Nokia however have something to say on the matter as well. At a Maemo event in London, on November 18 2009, the Maemo marketing team shared with some...

 

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AFAIK (and I did some dev stuff for Nokia); Symbian is DYING and its children are STILLBORN. They will use that ugly, unmaintainable stuff for their low-end handsets to come, but not for long. A highly optimized Maemo is in the works to completely replace it. Better late, than never.

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  • 2009-11-24 00:25
  • nH9F

actually is not that nokia should ditched symbian but symbian should change their O.S.... Seriously, it's damn boring, even with s60v5, it feels like the old symbian, and we get enough of it. Phone is developing fast thats why the O.S also need to catch up with the phone. In the past 3 years mobile phone keep advancing but symbian stays the same, imagine if at 2012 symbian keep stay the same.. during that time, maybe it only be used in some low end cheap phone

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  • 2009-11-23 17:20
  • ibbx

> In reply to winx @ 2009-11-23 09:30 from w0Qf - click to readMaemo is not built by Nokia so it's clear that it is better than symbian:d

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  • 2009-11-23 17:01
  • 0w7t

lets see whos the better man. symbian or maemo?

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  • 2009-11-23 09:30
  • w0Qf

if nokia don't change their o.s with their Phone coming up i'll be be ditching them forever, sorry Nokia, you need to update your o.s soon, your phone's with sybian's are boring.

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  • 2009-11-23 05:52
  • vCMe

> In reply to Etolix @ 2009-11-21 23:13 from 0w7t - click to readWell, I like Nokia phones, but I'm not a fanboy. I just laughed at what you write, and as you said, this story is true. We may see less symbian phones from now on.

I demand a Part II.

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  • 2009-11-22 17:17
  • CZxj

> In reply to NvS @ 2009-11-22 08:04 from tD}T - click to readFairy tales aren't true, this is true story, so this ain't fairy tale, it's more like drama :D Part II should be done within 2 years until 2012. Who will die 1st Nokia or Symbian, let's wait and see. :D

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  • 2009-11-22 11:05
  • 0w7t

> In reply to Etolix @ 2009-11-21 16:39 from 0w7t - click to readOkay,that's one hell of a fairy tale you got,hurry up with part 2..!!!

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  • 2009-11-22 08:04
  • tD}T

Well cosidering Nokia is a major stakeholder in Symbian, I doubt that it will chop it's own tail? This news comes as no surprise :-)

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  • 2009-11-22 02:00
  • 95mx

> In reply to Virtual @ 2009-11-21 22:00 from 5%rp - click to readNo way, I have a lots of work. Just had few mins to write up comment - two. Lmao, I mean, it doesn't take ages to reply haha. I see a fanboy war in here, so just shared few words. I bet you are Nokia fanatic. :D

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  • 2009-11-21 23:13
  • 0w7t

> In reply to Etolix @ 2009-11-21 16:39 from 0w7t - click to readYou sure have a lot of free time, don't you?

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  • 2009-11-21 22:00
  • 5%rp

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-11-21 17:14 from ibbx - click to readWhat's worrr? Rofl

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  • 2009-11-21 19:09
  • 0w7t

> In reply to Etolix @ 2009-11-21 16:39 from 0w7t - click to readbut the mummy already feed a lot of milk for the son worrr ??:X

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  • 2009-11-21 17:14
  • ibbx

Mummy!
Symbian my son(tears).
Is it true that I must leave mummy?I don't wanna leave(sad face).
I think that you have grown enough to raise your own family my dear(wiping tears).
Please mum, I don't wanna go! I'm scared(looking down on floor with eyes shivering).
Don't be scared my dear child, you have your friends Sony and Ericsson, and your lovely girlfriend Samsung(smiling with tears).
But why mum?! Don't you love me?! Didn't you say I am your only son? And who is that Maemo? Is this cause of him?(tears in his eyes).
Don't expect answers my dear, you must find them by your own, mummy is having hard times, I am not young as I used to be(no tears, worried face).
Will you die?
Nobody knows, I hope I won't soon, but we must all die one day my dear, don't cry, you are man, grown enough.
Please let me stay mummy!
But...
But what? Maemo again?!
No...
Please, I beg you.
Ok, stay, just another 2 years.

(They hug and smile)

End of part I



How touchy. :D


Poor Nokia, what immature symbian is. I doubt that symbian will ever grow up to expectations. And you? XD

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  • 2009-11-21 16:39
  • 0w7t

> In reply to [deleted post]As Deep Space Bar said "How so?"

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  • 2009-11-21 12:40
  • k7t{

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-11-21 00:42 from qBMj - click to readYou can get the Droid, isn't that the most wonderful phone ever on the best network in the world?

There's nothing to stop you laying out a few dead presidents to buy any phone you want.

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  • 2009-11-21 11:33
  • vafY

hey ... i wish nokia kept what they said earlier, cos i am done with symbian and its limitations..

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  • 2009-11-21 11:31
  • PB7E

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-11-20 17:39 from nbuy - click to readOn my sony ericsson p1i i can open every single app that i have in phone and there is still free memory...about 40 apps and about 10-15mb free memory.

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  • 2009-11-21 11:21
  • pctw

Will symbian open source be customizable? Like being able to edit all the underlying system settings etc? As compared to windows mobile and android? Like being able to upgrade to it for instance when it comes out?

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  • 2009-11-21 06:51
  • fjRk

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-11-21 00:20 from PS69 - click to readYou're wrong about everything, I have the Nokia E81, E71 and N97;
SE has made one s60 phone and it wasn't really liked, Samsung phones take so long to get firmware updates that they are useless if some error happens.
And you don't seem to have read the article Nokia is going to use BOTH Symbian and Maemo in its phones.
If nokia diches Symbian, Symbian dies and that's how it is.

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  • 2009-11-21 02:23
  • MfxY
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