The Maemo marketing team revealed at the official N900 meet-up in London that Nokia plans to drop Symbian for Maemo on their “top end phones” by 2012. I think this is a good idea since Symbian OS is pretty old and it’s time for a new operating system to take over.
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10 Responses to “Nokia dropping Symbian for Maemo by 2012?”
Nice Idea n Nice move….
I don’t believe this rumour at all. And by the way, Nokia has already responded that they are committed to Symbian. So i think this is just yet another rumour which should not be taken so seriously.
By the way, I don’t really understand it when people say that Symbian is too old and Linux would be somehow more modern OS. That’s not true.
First version of Symbian was released in 2001. Symbian was originally called Psion EPOC32, not to be confused with earlier EPOC16 which was not the same OS. The first version of EPOC32 was released in 1997.
Linus Torvalds created Linux in 1991. First Unix-systems were created in 70′s and GNU project was started in early 80′s. Linux is not Unix and it does not use any unix code, but Linux is Unix like operating system.
As you can see Symbian is much newer operating system than Linux. so I really donät understand how Symbian is supposed to be too old, and eg. Linux based Maemo not.
Sure first version of maemo was introduced in 2005, gour years after the first version of Symbian. But you need to understand that Maemo is a platform which uses linux as a operating system.
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Note that Psion EPOC can mean both EPOC16 and EPOC32, but as I said EPOC16 and EPOC32 were completely different operating systems and Symbian has absolutely nothing to do with the older EPOC16.
EPOC16 was 16bit operating system developed in late 80′s. It was written using Intel 8086 assembler and C and it did run on 8086 based systems.
EPOC32 was 32bit operating system written using C++ and it has nothing in common with EPOC16. EPOC32 was developed for the ARM-family of processors. First version of EPOC32 was released in 1997. EPOC32 was then renamed to Symbian and the first Symbian version was released in 2001.
Thanks for the info you provided.I too am not to believe those rumours. Futhermore, Symbian would work great on phones with a sufficient hardware to support it, which Nokia currently do not have. Those two operating systems would grow side by side.
afaik Symbian is linux too, but on the other hand … if the firmware is bug free, usable, hackable
and if there are enough useful apps you can name it how ever you want ….
No, Symbian has nothing to do with Linux. Symbian and Linux are completely different OS.
Linux on phones makes sense especially for phone hackers. You can get almost anything to run without playing certificate games and begging people to write apps. 10′s of thousands of apps already exist for Linux just use them and go. Symbian is a good secure OS but it has too many problems and for something around this long it’s not very smooth or well thought out. Like calendar appointments that clear by themselves, the list goes on and on. Symbian is dead, long live NIX.
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