Nokia says it will use Maemo for ‘mobile computers’, Symbian for cheaper smartphones, and S40 interface for low-end
Posted by: Phat^Trance in Maemo, Nokia, Press releases
Nokia Corp., the world’s largest handset maker, Wednesday said Symbian would remain the key software platform for its smartphones, as it forecast a 10% rise in overall industry volumes next year following a period of sharp contraction.
In a sign of the growing importance of platforms to the industry, Nokia said Wednesday it had made significant improvements to the next version of the Symbian user interface, as it also gave its first industry projections for next year.
“In 2010, we will drive user experience improvements, and the progress we make will take the Symbian user interface to a new level,” said Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, adding it had “reach and flexibility like no other platform.”
He also said that a higher proportion of its smartphones–the one area of the handset market that has continued to grow during the recession–will have touch screens or full QWERTY keyboards compared with previously.
The Espoo, Finland-based company, hosting its capital markets day, also said it would focus on stabilizing the average selling price of its handsets to increase revenue.
“Going into 2010, the overall mobile devices market is stabilizing and it is growing more in the areas where Nokia has competitive advantages,” Chief Financial Officer Timo Ihamuotila said.
Nokia said it will continue to focus on applications for its phones, targeting net sales from its Services unit of EUR2 billion or more in 2011 from an expected 300 million active users by the end of 2011.
To differentiate its products from rivals, Nokia has increasingly focused on applications such as navigation, its Comes With Music phones, and the Ovi online portal. Ovi means ‘door’ in Finnish.
It means Symbian S60 will be Out from Future Mobile Computers.
There will be No N97 again.
But Meamo is a good OS
Can you tell me What will be New in Next Symbian UI
The only problem I have with nokia using symbian as their “2nd tier” handsets so to speak is I bought the N97 sim free as it was marketed as nokia’s flagship handset… now for it to be categorised as one of their mid range handset.
“It means Symbian S60 will be Out from Future Mobile Computers.
There will be No N97 again.”
That is not true. There will be Symbian smartphones like n97 and much more advanced devices too.
Note that nokia don’t even call Maemo devices as smartphones. those are more like mobile computers. Maemo devices are and will be more like internet tablets which can be used to make calls too.
As you can see from this slide:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/images/news/platform.jpg
Symbian device prices range will be something like from ~100 EUR to ~500 EUR. 500 EUR device sure is not any low end device. Currently you can get n97 with less than 500 euros here in Finland.
what is going to be new in the future symbian?
Symbian^3 Concept Screenshots remind us that Symbian is still Alive and Kicking
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/10819_First_look_at_Symbian3_concept.php
Sounds to me that Nokia will continue much as before with the maemo now incorporating the communicator and tablets that were always for a small niche of the market and the symbian and s40 covering the vast majority of its market. It remains to be seen if Nokia can get the communicator and e90 users to move to its new maemo os or lose them to another.
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