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Nokia says Android is not the OS we are looking for
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia's newly promoted Anssi Vanjoki has written a bullish first post in which he kicks to the curb any suggestion that the firm will use Google's Android OS.
Vanjoki, now Nokia's head of mobile solutions, launched into the role with a post called, "The fightback starts now", in which he set forth his firm's stance on operating systems and its plans to take battle back to the top of the mobile phone market.
At the heart of this fightback is the line that Vanjoki is drawing around preferred operating systems. He believes that Nokia will benefit best from working with partners closer to home.
"Symbian and MeeGo are the best software for our smartest devices. As such, we have no plans to use any other software. Despite rumors to the contrary, there are no plans to introduce an Android device from Nokia," he explained.
We don't know if the Nokia human resources team tests its workers for stress, but although he's not long in the job Vanjoki is already showing signs of it.
"I am committed, perhaps even obsessed, with getting Nokia back to being number one in high-end devices," he wrote, causing us to wonder whether it might be a good idea for someone to scatter a few holiday brochures on his desk. "Achieving this will require performance and efforts over and above the norm." Well, agreed.
This over and above the norm business is a good point though. Nokia has its eggs in all the Symbian, Moblin and Meego baskets, none of which are really on the tips of anyone's tongue when they talk about exciting smartphone operating systems.
Perhaps some of the commentators on the piece are not as convinced as Vanjoki. One said, "OK, then Good Luck!", and another added, "Very Good Anssi! I start to see my reality distorted..."
None of this concerns Vanjoki though, who is hellbent on resurrecting the firm and was keen to stake the soon to come Nokia N8 handset's place in the recovery.
"Over the coming months, we'll be releasing the Nokia N8, the first Symbian^3 phone from Nokia. I have been testing the N8 and I believe it is going to surprise a lot of people with its power and speed. The camera and HD quality video and deep integration with Ovi services will make this an entertainment powerhouse. We also plan to deliver our first MeeGo device this year. And MeeGo has me buzzing," he burbled.
How forward looking this new Nokia is remains to be seen. Vanjoki has already hinted at a potential cap on Symbian^3 devices, explaining that the N8 will be the only one of the series to use the OS.
However, he did add, "Of course, we 'never comment on future products', but a Symbian^4 Nseries device is a strong possibility. A very strong possibility." He then added a winking smiley to his post, which for reasons of taste we will not reproduce.
Winking aside, the firm has reportedly already decided to use Meego on forthcoming N series handsets. Someone should tell Vanjoki. µ
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OK BUT ANDROID MOBILE MORE FASTER THAN SYMBIAN AND MEEGO MOBILE.
Nokia will have to pay for this decision of MeeGo.Nokia is now on third on selling of smartphones and soon it will ruin.if they want success , adopt Android OS
Have you seen the Wild Ducks project (http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Wild_ducks_project).
That is, they should release the full source code for some Symbian^3 or 4 based handset so that we can finally have proper aftermarket smartphone OSes just like we have flavours of Linux.
Of course that has hardware implications, such as putting GSM/3G on a dedicated CPU core which remains proprietary, and of course Ovi Maps would no doubt remain closed too (but who cares).
Everyone's a winner - the market would love it, and Nokia would flog a ton of handsets that they otherwise aren't going to.
It's the only way I can see Symbian surviving (and even thriving) and Nokia getting one up on iOS and Android before they're left for dust given their head starts.
I loved my 5800 but it had numerous annoying flaws that I couldn't do anything about. It's plain crazy that that state of affairs will persist with the N8 and beyond, despite being based on a supposedly open source OS.
Go on Nokia - give us a Dreambox of the smartphone world.
in glowing terms that confuse me. Guess I just don't understand getting excited over a telephone, think all should be black bakelite and wired to the wall.
That's Nokia done, then!
/wave hand @ nokia
/whisper "this is not the an'droid you're looking for"
Nokia is saying it will use an OS developed by Nokia. It can not be said that Nokia subjectively reviewed the market and picked the best option for the user; rather, Nokia protected it's pride.
"...its plans to take battle back to the top of the mobile phone market."
Huh?
I apprieciate the INq's sense of humor, but some proof-reading would be nice.
As much as I like Google and Android, I think that having a variety of three (and maybe four) mobile-ready open-source OS's stewarded by different corporations is a Good Thing (namely Android, WebOS, Meego, and perhaps Ubuntu).
I think that the world is still trying to recover from what happened due to the Microsoft Monopoly. The total money lost from the economy can be seen in Bill Gates bank accounts and in all the money Microsoft wastes on development of still more programs to lock-in users to its proprietary software (Apple is a similar situation, but even worse in some aspects IMHO).
Having a variety of open-source OS's for mobile, tablet, and desktop use will probably encourage a degree of standardization (both in the user interfaces and in software compatibility) to efficiently utilize developers' efforts, while still encouraging competition and avoiding another Microsoft-like monopoly disaster. But even more importantly, open-source software highlights freedom and user's rights to know what is going on and control their own experiences and devices (the same freedoms being stepped on by proprietary software, ACTA, DEA, and the media cartels).
That's a bit poor by the Inquirer's standards. FINNISH WELLINGTON BOOT MAKER at the very least. I had some once, they were actually rather decent.
I did not see where Vanjoki said they are not using MeeGo with N-series.
They might use Symbian additionally to MeeGo with N-series despite earlier reports that it's MeeGo all the way.
But I think they are just names anyway. MeeGo will have phones with more ram and CPU and Symbian with little less. Bot will run the same programs anyway.
perfecting the emulation of which seems to be the primary goal of management at Nokia.