Nokia ditching Symbian for N Series. MeeGo the future!

 

StopI am pretty sure that when Romans said Divide et Impera (Divide and Conquer) they didn’t have this in mind! What?? Even more diversity in the Nokia plethora of operating systems. Really?

My only worry about this is that Nokia will have one more platform to focus on while keeping the others alive. I mean there are already a lot of variations when it comes to operating systems on Nokia phones. One can find Java, different Symbian versions (a lot of them), Maemo, and soon even more devices with MeeGo. This could make Nokia lose its focus and instead of creating one competitive device they will make 10 average ones.

I know they need to catch up and they are doing their best to come up with competitive devices like N8, N900, N 5800, E73 which in all fairness they are pretty nice mobiles. Now all the Android and iPhone fanboys out there may not agree but, as a Symbian fan and user myself I do like the most recent phones.

When Nokia announced the N8 specs I was pretty pumped about the 12 MP HD camera, picture editing features, huge (what type?) display and the mini HDMI port. On top of all that it had the much awaited Symbian^ 3 OS, which was supposed to be the first step towards revitalizing Symbian, giving it a complete UI overhaul. Now I am a little skeptic about its future. If they will make the MeeGo the next big thing what’s going to happen to Symbian^ 4?

Leaving this aside I am looking forward to see the development of MeeGo, which will hopefully bring Nokia back in the top of the smartphone manufactures when it comes to usability and applications.

What’s your opinion? Are you going to buy the next Symbian phone or the next MeeGo phone?

via BGR

Andrei Piftor (Andi) on June 25th, 2010 in Mobile, News, technology

34 Responses to “Nokia ditching Symbian for N Series. MeeGo the future!”

  1. Meego probably. I’m really not a fan of symbian anyway, even though I have the N97 mini. It’s too limited imo.

    me June 25th, 2010

  2. So, its time to make Nimbuzz for Linux

    Brown Jr. June 25th, 2010

  3. my nimbuzz can’t for facebook….why?

    idrys.shardyroelsz June 25th, 2010

  4. I dnt think nokia will ever ditch symbian…well meego will be high end devices like N 9 and all…

    jeetu June 25th, 2010

  5. i think it is a briliant strategy at Nokia’s part. Creating competition within it self. Keeping Symbian for a the lower end smartphones and Meego for the highend smartphones….

    the company has enough spread to create multiple markets from entry level users to gradually taking them to a high end customer

    Amir Jahangir

    Amir Jahangir June 25th, 2010

  6. …while consumers are the best rabbit for trial…

    agus June 25th, 2010

  7. I think I will wait to MeeGo, looks very nice!

    Johannes June 25th, 2010

  8. Nokia is doing i big mistake. I would prefer Symbian to be my next phone. Nokia should listen to users instead of using their own brains..

    Vineesh June 25th, 2010

  9. the nokia is bad with symbian

    a7mdo0oh June 25th, 2010

  10. @Brown Jr.
    we are considering developing a Linux version
    @all
    thanks for all your comments :)
    Regards

    queralt escrich June 25th, 2010

  11. @idrys.shardyroelsz
    We are aware of issues with FB connection and we are working on Facebook Connect to solve these problems.

    queralt escrich June 25th, 2010

  12. I think there is much room for symbian! Nokia, I believe will keep the symbian…and it is to keep it and at the same time go for meego. To have a numerous variable OS is a wise move to keep afloat in the competing market. In this way, all masses would be represented well.

    Randolf L. Generale June 25th, 2010

  13. Oh man! What a wonderful wonderful phone is the Nokia N8! My god! I’ve gone crazy about it since I’ve known about its features! Till now, 5800 was my hero. Now its absolutely the N8! I would love to know its pricing in India! When will it arrive the Indian market? What will be its price? Just waiting eagerly for u my darling! You are so stylish, sexy, fully loade with superb features! My god! You’ll kill me!,

    Vishal June 25th, 2010

  14. Nokia are facing huge losses at the end of this year following the release of the new iphone,the drop of symbian o.s is not a strategy but a panic move to try and attrack a more vast target market which entertainment application oriented rather than socially and game application based.

    sebastian June 25th, 2010

  15. I’ll love an N8 (maybe a Samsung clone?) running Android. That would be the best option for the next 2 years.

    Till this do not happen I stay with my N82. Best option till now, even compared to iphones, androids and other symbians/wm out there.

    wilson June 26th, 2010

  16. I’m one of the fan of nimbuzz. I’m staying in qatar and using qtel broadband wifi. From last 5-6 day’s i was unable to call from sip only phone will ring not able to have conversation over it. It’s very difficult from it. Kindly find out the error my friends are also facing the same problem.

    Alwin June 27th, 2010

  17. Well if Meego is better than symbian for high end devices maybe it’s a good move. Just hope that other previous symbian mobile won’t be negatively affected… Else consumer will be left forgone

    Mr.Kevinz June 27th, 2010

  18. Hi guys,

    I think there were a misunderstanding in phone community about nokia/symbian/meego.

    First of all, nokia didn’t ditch symbian. Nokia realize what symbian is the best at. Serving the easy to use mobile smartphone. Unfortunately, the market is changing, and we demanding that our phone is act like computer.

    Nokia could revolutionize the symbian to be mobile computing OS super power. But if they did that, the market in the smartphone for easy to use OS will be vanish. i.e. people that were not savy enough will have to choose to follow the hard to use OS or use the dumb phone.

    Instead of revolutionize the symbian, nokia choose the Linux as their mobile platform, and they did very well with it.

    Now, to make those meego & symbian hand-in-hand concure the world, nokia have purchase the QT Trooltech. with QT,now called Nokia Creator, developer can make symbian & Meego/Maemo application with 1 source code.

    The idea is simple. when compiling the source code, the developer can choose symbian or maemo/meego as the target device without doing any modification to the source code.

    so, nokia is not abandoning the symbian, and if Nimbuzz were made with QT, nimbuzz could easily made both Symbian and Maemo/Meego binary at the same time.

    cycnus June 27th, 2010

  19. I forgot to add….

    the N97 is the sign that symbian is not good at competing with their competitor, but the E72/E71, 5800 and variant is a sign that at ease of use level symbian is still by far the best.

    so, maemo/meego is the new symbian+ for nokia. :)
    complementing the S60v5 and S60v3

    cycnus June 27th, 2010

  20. this is sad news for me….i was with symbian for almost 10 years and i think that symbian is much more capable than iOS,wm,android etc…just a little UI modifications and it would be the best system ever…S80 is the best OS ever invented for mobile computers nokia should give it another chance…..well its hard for me to decide yet i will see what future brings for symbian and meego

    merim June 27th, 2010

  21. Please…

    Welcome NATIVE XMPP / Jabber support on nokia high end mobiles with video and voice calling.

    This is a great news.
    Best regards.

    Guillermo Lo Coco June 27th, 2010

  22. I need help with my nimbuz, it shows feature not supported and hangs at syncing contacts i have an nokia n70

    Awcer June 28th, 2010

  23. @Awcer
    Could you let us know which exact error message do you receive and when does it exactly appear?
    Which Nimbuzz version are you using?
    Did you update to the latest version available?
    Let us know

    queralt escrich June 28th, 2010

  24. @Alwin
    If you are having issues placing SIp calls, we recommend you to contact directly your SIP provider.
    We do not proxy SIP Voice Streams, which means that Nimbuzz just connect s you to the Sip server and the audio and voice connection is managed by your SIP provider.
    Let us know if you have more questions.

    queralt escrich June 28th, 2010

  25. @guillermo loco coco
    Due to priorities and technical reasons we no longer support the Jabber/ XMPP Gateways.

    Please feel free to contact us for any comments or questions.

    Kind regards.

    queralt escrich June 28th, 2010

  26. @merim

    symbian is not gone.
    It just the N-series will use maemo
    and symbian will be put on E/X/C series.

    cycnus June 28th, 2010

  27. It seems the best way to support Nokia and several, countless new comers (including netbooks) is: move the UI to Qt.

    I am on PPC Mac so I didn’t really check your OS X version (it is Intel only). Is it Qt based or you wrap the web page?

    Anyway, you guys absolutely know how to code and it shouldn’t be issue for you. The real issue with Nokia moving N series to Qt/Linux is: Newbie/USA based developer confusion. Nokia should be way more clear and shouldn’t confuse developers. I really wonder how many projects were cancelled after this amazingly confusing news. Even poor N8 got hit since some think it will be the only Symbian phone with Symbian^3 which is _backwards_ compatible with everything released before. It is not like “Nimbuzz special edition for N8″ will be needed or you have to spend your time. Just a Qt based UI perhaps?

    Anyway, it is projected that at least 80% of Nokia’s “smart” lineup will be Symbian, 20% (if Meego takes off), Linux. Both has single API for UI which is Trolltech Qt. Not a new comer, it creates miracles on Linux. The most advanced and modern UI in today’s operating systems is KDE 4 which is based on Trolltech Qt.

    Ilgaz June 29th, 2010

  28. @wilson Nice idea, that would be awesome.
    @cycnus Thanks a lot for the info, really interesting stuff.
    @Ilgaz cheers for your input. I agree that Nokia should be more clear in their communication :)

    Andrei Piftor (Andi) June 29th, 2010

  29. Guys,

    It depend on where you got your news information. If you got your news from the old continent journalist, then you’ll know nokia strategy very well. Nokia is very well with Symbian-QT-Maemo/Meego.

    It is the US based journalist that keep hitting nokia in the head. They like to dramatize the nokia decision, and make apple/android/RIM looks like a hero.

    It seems to me that since nokia is the only one that not from the american continent, the american journalist hate it a lot.

    Quick fact…
    Samsung sell the most touch screen in 2009 followed by Nokia… Not apple
    Nokia sell more touch screen then all iphone every combined (that also make samsung sale more touch screen than apple).
    If someone said that because nokia have lots of type.
    Nokia sell more E71 than all iphone ever produced.

    so, the information about nokia is always have a 2 side…. if you read CNN, yahoo, and any american based phone reviewer, you don’t get a good fact.

    Here is a good site to know the phone industry in a neutral view:
    http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/

    cycnus June 30th, 2010

  30. @cynus thanks for the link, will add it to my rss.
    BTW have you seen this?http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2010/07/symbian-guru-com-is-over.html

    what’s your opinion about it.

    Andrei Piftor (Andi) July 7th, 2010

  31. Hi Andrei,

    I think they were just like me. I’m a nokia fans, and know what nokia platform (Symbian-QT-Maemo/Meego) can do if they done it right. But the transition were taking so long, in the mean time, the competitor showing a flashy devices. So, this is the day that is very hard to be a nokia fans and can defend what nokia doing right.

    Another thing is, it’s becoming a habit in the last incarnation of nokia device, that nokia were reluctant to push hardware specs beyond the ‘recomended’ area. For example, I own Nokia E61i with 220MHz Arm 9, and it’s a real slow. My wife use the Nokia N81 with a mere 20MB of free C: drive. and it’s crippling a great 369MHz CPU.

    The Nokia N97 also have some problem due to nokia bad decision to use a small NAND-flash (low memory size on drive C), and it were fixed with the N97mini. Nokia E72 which have price lower than the N97 have a faster CPU (600MHz vs. 433MHz). There were more nokia problem due to bad hardware choice. That’s just a couple of example.

    But, nokia have building up their strength by doing a great overhaul at their core. If they finish this makeover, the second wave of nokia dominating power will surely make android, RIM & apple suffer a lot.

    See this article by symbian-freak:
    http://symbian-freak.com/news/010/07/why_symbian_and_meego_are_best_for_nokia_1.htm

    cycnus July 7th, 2010

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  33. Hi i bought nokia N9 , meeGo os, its not support to nimbuzz, give me idea to install nimbuzz on my phone
    thank u

    NICHALSON RAJA February 15th, 2012

  34. @NICHALSON RAJA
    We do not support your device Operating system, there is no compatible version of Nimbuzz for your device.
    Regards

    queralt escrich February 15th, 2012


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