News - Nokia phases out Symbian OS in favour of Nokia Belle

[HEXUS]

Nokia changes Symbian name for upcoming OS update.

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[warejon9]

Didn't nokia say they were dropping Symbian a while back (hence the tanked symbian figure sales) but maybe due to the progress with Belle, they've decided to just rename the OS instead, but the brand is still being dropped?

[crossy]

Whether the Symbian name has now disappeared for good, or whether Nokia plans to continue with the OS long term, is unknown.

They're bl**dy idiots if they do - unless it's for the feature phones. Last Symbian device I tried had great hardware, but the OS was nowhere near as good as iOS or Android.

Everyone seems reasonably happy with WP7 so surely it'd make good business sense to standardise all the smartphones on that?

[bobharvey]

Who is "everyone",Crossy? I've only seen half a dozen, all in the hands of people who didn't like it.

[crossy]

Who is "everyone",Crossy? I've only seen half a dozen, all in the hands of people who didn't like it.

The few folks I've seen with WP7 have been pretty impressed, then again they're all those kind of cussed folks who do things just to be different!

In addition I've not seen that much bad mouthing of WP7 here @Hexus, and there's quite a few of the Hexus dwellers who've commented that they're considering WP7 for their next phone - either in preference to iOS or, more usually, Android.

When I've had a shot of a WP7 it's seemed quite good - responsive and quite "obvious" to use. That said, while I'd also consider it, the lack of a couple of apps that I need mean that I'm staying with Android.

As an ex-Symbian owner though, I'd say that ANYTHING is preferable to that OS... It's definitely past it's "sell by date" imho.

[shaithis]

About time.

IMO, Symbian was never a contender. Pre-touchscreens, it was unbelievably clunky to the point of annoying me to hell just trying to make a phonecall......then once touchscreens starting appearing IOS and Android came swooping in and did everything better.