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Yesterday, rumors about Nokia looking into running Google Android OS on an upcoming smartphone drew a lot of attention (via Guardian). Nokia has flatly denied any plans to go Android and refreshes its commitment for the Symbian platform.
Nokia is forever married to the Symbian platform and it’s going to be a long shot if we can ever see a Nokia handset with an Android OS in it. Why?
Well, first of all, there’s that $700PHP 41,080INR 59,325EUR 667CNY 5,095 million dollar reason. Nokia bought out the remaining 52% of Symbian last year for a reportedly €264 million ($368PHP 21,596INR 31,188EUR 350CNY 2,678 million) big bucks.
Nokia is also promoting its own non-profit Symbian Foundation which combined several different operating systems (Symbian OS, S60, UIQ, MOAP) and made the whole thing open source (read: free, just like Android).
Nokia also bought into a lot of other properties that ride on the same ecosystem. One prominent example is Navteq for $8.1PHP 475INR 686EUR 8CNY 59 billion (it has to make money off of Nokia Maps to get that investment back). Going Android also means dropping Nokia Maps for Google Maps (Navteq provided maps to Yahoo, Google and Microsoft and makes over half a billion in sales a year).
Last month, Intel and Nokia announced a strategic partnership and support development of Moblin and Maemo platform for future mobile computing devices.
Nokia is slowly losing the smartphone wars — analysts at HSBC reckon Nokia had 47% of the global smartphone market in 2007; that was down to 35% last summer and 31% at the end of the year {via}. Meanwhile, the Blackberry, iPhone 3G, Palm Pre and Android phones are gaining momentum.
If Nokia gives in to Android as the better platform than Symbian, it will continue to lose market share in the growing smartphone market. It has also invested a lot of marketing money and resources to promote Ovi. It looks like it’s Symbian or nothing for Nokia.
Do you think Nokia should just drop Symbian, specifically the S60 platform, for a better one?
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Darren says:
nokia can learn from Acer –> windows + android, LOL
whaâ„¢ says:
oo nga naman. bakit mo bibitiwan ang company kung saan ka nag invest ng milti million..
Mike says:
Hard to say, Abe. They put in a lot of money in Symbian. If somehow, Nokia can foresee a bigger market share by shifting to Android, then who knows?
Personally, I still like Symbian better than Android. While Android comes with cool new bells and whistles, it still has a few kinks that need to be ironed out.
BrianB says:
Symbian still has great potential. They just need a UI that competes with iPhone, Android and WebOS.
lance says:
They need to realize that giving mediocre experience to their userbase won’t benefit them in the long run. Why not dedicate a portion of their large R&D funds to furnish the next symbian succcessor? S60 5th edition is too messed up already even their eye candy treatment to it fails in most angles.
I believe the best thing for them is to die or innovate with Symbian. Adroid or any other OS won’t help them. Hehe
bengtotpogi says:
It’s about as much probability as Apple getting Android on their phones. No way that’s going to happen… symbian ftw!
sky says:
They should just innovate Symbian.
Eugene says:
Correction: Google no longer gets map data from Navteq since early last year. They now get map data primarily from Tele Atlas and their own Map Maker (plus some country-specific data sets here and there). Google dumped Navteq just as Nokia’s acquisition of Navteq was approved by European regulators.
techme says:
i think nokia should start to rebuild symbian! the specs for nokia phones are nice but the software i.e. symbian is very slow they should give symbian a new life by making a new and more friendlier interface, make symbian quicker etc. if they can do this they will definitely be on par with competition. with android, palm’s new os, iphone os, the current symbian feels very old school and very worn out! please nokia improve symbian before its too late!
Mark Jason says:
there’s no need to shift from symbian. They should just take part on improving the OS. Android and Apple’s OS are clean, cool and smooth while symbian is too organized, laggy and slow. That’s what made their touchscreen flagship (5800) not that successful. Maganda sana nilang kuhanan ng ideas yung Series 40 interface ng nokia phones. Mas modern ang look.