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Nokia will hold a Symbian smartphone event in April
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has sent out invites to an event in London on April 12 that promises to be about smartphones and Symbian, and stops abruptly there.
The INQUIRER contacted Nokia's Finnish press team to find out more, but it finishes work at 5pm Finnish time, so it was probably outside enjoying the Finnish sunshine. The UK equivalent responded that the event was being managed internally at Nokia, which suggests that it is keeping its cards very close to its chest.
The invitation says, "Discover what's new with Symbian smartphones", which lends itself to theories that Nokia will either appear Phoenix-like with an all-conquering smartphone, or will update Symbian in some way.
A Nokia smartphone might be interesting, but it will have to be a blockbuster if its going to make a serious mark on the market, while a Symbian update could propel that OS back into competition with the other mobile operating systems, like, er, Windows Phone that Nokia has said it is adopting, but perhaps not serious ones like IOS and Android.
With Nokia apparently sidelining Symbian, offloading it to another vendor, and discontinuing development, the smart money is on some kind of a Windows Phone and Symbian hybrid smartphone.
If you can call that smart. µ
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I would guess that what they will uncover is a Silverlight runtime for Symbian - which would enable WM7 apps to run on Symbian as well.
This way Nokia will be able to support both platforms in a good way in the transition phase to WM7
It's a disturbing trend on the internet that people think the word 'losing' is spelt 'loosing' ... get it right guys!
...is this too obviously what they need?
vbox for symbian
Nokia is loosing its customers trusty... This customers are using handrets of milinos symban based smartfons and after Nokia decition regarding migration to Windows Phone, they could not expet its software update from Nokia and independent vendors. They loose many and are frustrating. They prepare himself to migrate to other vendors. The worst of this is that the newest line of Nokia smartfones is Symbian based (N8, E7, C6...). The Windows Phone based handset are expected in next year. Its means that Nokia has no offer for smartphone users and will have not up to next year. That is really bad situation for Nokia. I think Nokia is trying to manage this crisis with events like this, to recover customer trusty to Symbian and its Symbian based smartfone sale.