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Samsung ends Symbian support!

Categories: Samsung, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, December 31st, 2010 at 1:42 AM

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]

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Anonymous

    “Will Symbian end up as a feature phone platform? I’m sad to say but that’s most likely to happen …”

    How does someone get a job as a technology writer writing about Smartphones when he doesn’t know the difference between a Smartphone OS and a feature phone OS?

    Symbian is the original and still the best Smartphone OS no matter how much FUD you try and spread.

    Samsung abandoned Symbian over a year ago. They have always had the absolute worst support for Symbian phones and that crappy support is now being felt by the millions of new fools jumping on Samsung Android and Bada phones.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dusan.belic Dusan Belic

    I’m not trying to spread FUD around. I was using quite a few Symbian smartphones. And Happy New Year to you too! :)

  • Rados Turbinnevic

    You clearly haven’t spent your CPU time on figuring out what defines the difference between a feature phone and a smartphone. Don’t worry. I’ll tell you. It is not so as many people tend to think that a smartphone is a phone that have a touch screen and cooler bling bling effects than some other phones. A smartphone is, by definition, a phone running an OS that provides a development platform for 3rd party developers. Symbian provides that and thereby is a smartphone platform. So the only way to turn Symbian into a feature phone OS would be preventing the 3rd party developers from creating software for Symbian, by, for instance, withdrawing the SDK. So why do you think they would want to do that? :)