As you might have noticed, we haven’t been covering Symbian-based devices lately, focusing completely on the Nokia N900 and the upcoming MeeGo OS. We started The Nokia Guide to cover the Nokia devices we’ve come to know and love, which at the beginning were Symbian-based. But as the mobile market has gotten progressively more competitive, especially from Android, we feel that Symbian-based devices have lost their edge to the point where we’re simply not covering them enthusiastically; we won’t buy them and won’t recommend them to our readers. As a result we’re going to make it official what we’ve been doing for a while now: stop covering Symbian-based devices. We feel that Symbian is becoming irrelevant and upcoming Symbian^3 and^4 don’t seem to change that. Other Symbian bloggers, such as our friends at Symbian-Guru are taking it one step further.
Luckily this doesn’t affect the Nokia N900 and upcoming MeeGo devices. I’m a happy Nokia N900 owner myself and would easily recommend it to our readers. Because Maemo serves as the basis for what will become MeeGo we have very high expectations for this platform and for this reason we will continue to cover Maemo and MeeGo exclusively.
Microsoft recently scrapped their plans for KIN and are completely focusing on Windows Phone 7. Nokia should do the same: scrap upcoming Nokia N8 and it’s QWERTY-based version and focus on MeeGo and getting developers on their side.
What do you think? Is Symbian becoming irrelevant?
I think symbian is still relevant for now ( at least another year ).. I had a N900 for a week or so.. it’s not really ready for my use at least.. the web was great!, email was better than symbian.. navigation was pathetic and unusable.. the navi is what kills it for me.. battery life was about 12hrs as well
I’m lookin forward to Meego though!
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Well, I will not say it becomes irrelevant since Symbian has the biggest market share and since Symbian takes over S40 slowly, there is a huge market for Symbian. However, it becomes more and more irrelevant for geeks and for people who want always the most shiny toys. Once Nokia’s N-Series was dedicated for those people but with Apple coming in the game, giving the UI a more important meaning, Nokia lost the track. Just take a look at all the blogs, many of them are covering mainly Apple and Android. Or ask developers for whom they want to develop application: first Apple, Andoird, Blackberry and then, at the very last it is Symbian. Nonetheless I have faith in Nokia and Symbian and I hope that they will come back with new and better hardware and improved software
IMO a bad decision. Understandable if you made this step one year ago. But now that Symbian ^3 und especially ^4 are right around the corner, i think there will be many interesting Symbian devices worth to cover. Hey, even Eldar Murtazin, Nokia critic #1 at the moment, said that Symbian ^4 will be a very good mobile OS…
On the other side as a satisfied N900 user, i’m happy to get more MeeGo informations, because i will switch to an N900 successor as soon as possible.
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[...] but with high-profile blogger exits (including The Nokia Guide, which has just announced it will no longer cover Symbian news) the company needs to really deliver on their promise of “products and services you will want [...]
[...] but with high-profile blogger exits (including The Nokia Guide, which has just announced it will no longer cover Symbian news) the company needs to really deliver on their promise of “products and services you will want [...]
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[...] but with high-profile blogger exits (including The Nokia Guide, which has just announced it will no longer cover Symbian news) the company needs to really deliver on their promise of “products and services you will want [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]
[...] de los blogs insignia dedicados específicamente a la marca y sus terminales. Su determinación es dejar de escribir por completo acerca de Symbian (99% de los terminales de la marca) y dedicarse exclusivamente al N900 y nuevos dispositivos que [...]