Nokia announced last November 2010 and again in Feb 2011 that they still have 1 MeeGo phone (nokia N9), 150 million phones to sell of Symbian and roughly the same amount of S40 phones after which they will kiss Symbian goodbye in favor of Windows Phone for the smartphones and mid level phones. S40 is also on its way out in favor of Meltemi which is Linux based for the Mid to low end phones. Meltemi will be developed in house by Nokia. The roadmap for this goes right through to 2014. So yeah the phones they are releasing now are transition phones... to keep something in the market until when they are ready with the new OSs --------------------------------------- Steve Obbayi: Software Developer Homepage: http://www.sobbayi.com ======================================= ----- "Kevin Omondi" <kevin.ouma@gmail.com> wrote:
@ Steve ...so they picked emerging markets to get rid of old stock ?
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Steve Obbayi < steve@sobbayi.com > wrote:
By the way, these phones dont run Symbian. They run S40. S40 is not Symbian. Dont confuse it with S60 based phones. S40 is a propriety Nokia OS which is being replaced by Meltemi Linux. So dont think this is the future of Nokia they are just getting rid of old stock.
Steve
----- "Philip Musyoki" < pmusyoki@gmail.com > wrote:
After all the wait, I actually expected something awesome and revolutionary from Nokia. What I am seeing seemed to be devices recycled from existing backlog of materials. And there is no need to keep Symbian for the 'Emerging' market, if you decide to go Windows Phone, do it for all the devices.
This is strategy bound to fail.
Nokia will remain the 'the king of dumbphones' for sometime if this is all they have to show for a year of development.
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