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Symbian Foundation Absorbed By Nokia
By Phil Barker on November 9,
 2010 at 00:00,

Although the Symbian Foundation has been a completely separate entity for the past two years, Nokia has announced that it will be bringing the company back in house, following a tough couple of months. Read on after the break to find out more...

The Symbian Foundation is the company responsible for the operating systems in Nokia smartphones, and most recently Symbian ^3. It's been a tough few months for the Symbian Foundation – not least because of the effort put into finishing Symbian ^3 in time for the Nokia N8's launch.

The head of the Symbian Foundation – Lee Williams – also stepped down during October, and although he was replaced immediately with Tim Holbrow, the Chief Financial Officer of the Symbian Foundation, it's been enough to cause lots of speculation about the future of the Symbian Foundation.

Nokia remains fully committed to Symbian, however, with the OS playing a big part in the company's smartphone roadmap. As such, the Symbian Foundation has been absorbed back into Nokia, with IT Proportal pointing out that Nokia will “continue to invest its own resources in developing Symbian and expects to deliver a strong portfolio of Symbian-based smartphones to people around the world”.

Starting with the Nokia E7, hopefully during December!

Via IT Proportal

Tags: Nokia Symbian Foundation Symbian ^3
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  • Docrishi

    Symbian – what a complete waste of money – out of date and running out of time – Android is steam rolling this piece of rubbish OS. Nokia will lose market share until they realise that no one likes Symbian.

  • mjoa

    @Docrishi, Honestly, we’ve heard that over the years for so many times and it hasn’t happened. Thus, if you have no educated opinion to add to the conversation – stfu.

  • Andrew

    Symbian is and should continue to be the OS of choice for the average user who values battery life over ‘premium’ bells, whistles and eye-candy.

    Symbian + Reasonably smart phone = long battery life

    Any other OS + Smart phone = 1 day battery life or less

    Both Android and iOS are painting themselves into a corner with a seemingly insatiable desire for increasingly more powerful hardware on platforms poorly optimised for battery life. Any naysayers should delay their sentence of execution until Symbian 4 arrives. I suspect this will arrive sooner than most imagine.

  • Peter

    @Andrew, +1, my nokia N8 has outstanding battery life, with medium usage easily lasts 2 days with 50 % still remaining. I’ve ditched my motorola milestone which struggles to get through even half a day.

  • Simon

    Hi, I really want to love my new n8, after all i waited long enough for it :-) ive moved back to Nokia after a long stint away trying other makers.
    I gave my iphone to my girlfriend. I just want to point out that apple have got thing streamlined really well. The apps are currently more professional and many of the on on ovi store look dated and pointless(although there are plenty of useless ones on app store).
    There are so many little bits that need to sorted out on symbian just to catch up.
    Having said that things are going to get better (they have to) – Im really looking forward to how things are going – I think its gonna be pretty brilliant soon. The hardware is there ready and waiting for the challenge