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Nokia to officially discontinue Symbian mobile OS this summer
- Once the most popular mobile operating system in the world, Nokia’s Symbian will officially be shown the door later this summer after falling from grace in 2011. The move will allow the Finnish handset maker to focus their full attention…
Nokia's Lumia did 'better than expected' in Q4, 4.4 million units sold
- Nokia has revealed that fourth quarter sales of their Lumia handsets were better than expected, giving the company’s stock a nice boost in the process. A strong holiday season pushed Lumia sales to 4.4 million, a solid increase over the…
Nokia renames Symbian Belle to Nokia Belle, available in February
- Nokia has announced via a new blog post that the next iteration of their in-house smartphone operating system will be called Nokia Belle. The OS was previously referred to as Symbian Belle and it is unclear why Nokia made the…
Nokia changes naming convention for phones: just numbers
- Nokia launched the Nokia 500 this week, featuring a 1GHz processor, changeable back covers, and the Symbian Anna operating system. Since the company is slowly moving to Windows Phone, this phone was hardly worth discussing. What is worth mentioning, however,…
Nokia to cut thousands of jobs, outsource Symbian OS
- Nokia has announced it will be cutting 7,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major restructuring plan as the company phases out Symbian and focuses on Microsoft's Windows Phone. The good news is that the 3,000 employees Nokia had working…
Nokia publishes Symbian source code
- Nokia has made the latest version of the Symbian platform's source code available to its development partners. The Finnish company has been working hard to convert most Symbian Foundation materials into the new framework and has uploaded almost all of…
Nokia takes back Symbian development
- Nokia has announced it will assume full control of the Symbian operating system, retaking management after giving to the open source community just 18 months ago. The company will begin taking care of Symbian platform development in April 2011, leaving…
Samsung drops Symbian, signs up for Windows Phone 7
- Samsung has made a post on the Samsung Mobile Innovator site and sent an e-mail to registered Symbian developers advising them that Symbian is going away. The last Symbian handset from Samsung, the Omnia HD, was released in 2009. Nokia,…
Nokia N8 smartphone starts shipping, with the Symbian^3 OS
- Nokia has started shipping its N8 smartphone. The company has announced the first Nokia N8 devices have left the factories in Finland and China and are now making their way to dozens of operators around the world in tens of…
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