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08-14-2009, 05:43 AM
According to Financial Times Deutschland, Nokia will be releasing Maemo powered smartphones over the next few weeks . Maemo is an open source, linux based OS which first debuted with Nokia 770 internet tablet in November 2005 and has touchscreen capabilities. What about Symbian, many wondered ? The Symbian OS was developed by an independent non-profit organisation called the Symbian Foundation (http://www.symbian.org/)and the former Symbian Software Limited which was acquired by Nokia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia) with the objective of creating the Symbian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian) platform as royalty-free, open source software for mobile interfaces. Why hasNokia had a change of heart with respect to its pet project?
According to an unnamed source quoted in the newspaper, "Symbian is much too cumbersome to keep up with modern operating systems. We have to react." The word on the street is that Nokia could merge Maemo with Intel's Moblin and enter into a strategic partnership with Intel
Nokia thankfully put a quick rest to the speculation that it was trading one OS for another.
“Nokia remains strongly committed to its current open OS software strategy for smartphones, which is based on the world leading Symbian software," said Joe Gallo, a Nokia spokesperson. "This provides a mature and consistent platform for rich mobile devices and application development." Nokia followed up on this declaration with the announcement that Nokia and Microsoft will bring Microsoft Office Mobile to the Symbian platform.
According to an unnamed source quoted in the newspaper, "Symbian is much too cumbersome to keep up with modern operating systems. We have to react." The word on the street is that Nokia could merge Maemo with Intel's Moblin and enter into a strategic partnership with Intel
Nokia thankfully put a quick rest to the speculation that it was trading one OS for another.
“Nokia remains strongly committed to its current open OS software strategy for smartphones, which is based on the world leading Symbian software," said Joe Gallo, a Nokia spokesperson. "This provides a mature and consistent platform for rich mobile devices and application development." Nokia followed up on this declaration with the announcement that Nokia and Microsoft will bring Microsoft Office Mobile to the Symbian platform.