The day has come. Just before the New Year’s Eve, Samsung has stopped supporting the Symbian platform. The Symbian Lab for developers was closed in October while the Symbian forum and other content related to the operating system will be removed today.
We are everything but surprised and are now looking forward to see what Nokia can make out of Symbian. Personally, I’m kinda skeptical and considering they also place their bets on MeeGo, they don’t seem that confident either. Will Symbian end up as a feature phone platform? I’m sad to say but that’s most likely to happen — though I must say I like the Nokia E7 very much.
In the meantime, we hope that hackers and developers will keep supporting the Samsung i8910 HD model updating it with latest tweaks and software, some of which have been ported from Nokia’s phones.
At the moment Samsung supports several platforms including Windows Phone 7, Android and its very own Bada, which also has sketchy prospects.
[Via: SamsungHub]