Symbian Will Officially Die This Summer
The Financial Times is reporting that Nokia will finally kill off Symbian once and for all this summer. So long, underpowered Nokia smartphones.
So long, Symbian! Nokia announced this morning that the 808 PureView was the last phone it'll ship with the aging OS.
Nokia: PureView Camera Technology Hitting Lumia 'Very Soon'
In an interview with Neowin, Nokia's vice president of worldwide developer relations, Richard Kerris, has explained that the company's PureView camera technology currently featured only in the 808 is coming to the Lumia range "very soon".
Hands-On With the Nokia 808 Pureview: “Some People Think We’ve Gone Too Far”
Dreamt up in a hotel bar in Japan by a couple of Nokia execs, the Nokia 808 Pureview phone has completely stolen MWC with its 41-megapixel sensor. I grabbed some time with Nokia's lead programme manager for imaging, Damian Dinning, to chat about how it's "almost like [they've] just invented time travel, it's that…
The Most Popular Mobile OS on Earth Doesn't Exist Anymore
A little over a week ago, Nokia killed off the Symbian name, instead calling the platform Nokia Belle and, hopefully, letting it die a swift and unencumbered death. And then yesterday we find out that the very same Symbian, is the most popular mobile platform in the whole wide world.
Symbian Is Dead
In a branding equivalent of quietly dumping a corpse off a pier in the middle of the night, Nokia is retiring the Symbian moniker for good. Except it's not dead—now it's just called Nokia Belle. Belle! Ha! Ha.
Nokia Needs to Stop Making Symbian Phones RIGHT NOW
Hey look! There are three new Symbian phones out today. What? Where? Why, they're over there, next to the pennyfarthings and the ham radios: the obsolete section. What the crap is going on here, Nokia?
Nokia's U.S. Customers Will Only Get WP7 Devices
Realizing that U.S. consumers have by and large abandoned Symbian, Nokia will no longer release Meego or Symbian-based devices in the U.S. That means no N9 over here, unless it's running Windows Phone 7. [All Things D]
Nokia's Sales Are "Clearly Disappointing" According to, Erm, Nokia
Thought the situation at Nokia was dire already? They've just reported their first quarterly loss in 18 months, recording $521m loss, compared to the $322m profit they made in the same period last year.
Dancing Dolls and Pink N8s Won't Save You, Nokia
We're hardly the target audience for a pink phone and Lady Gaga-esque visuals, but Nokia's latest commercial does make me laugh. Or weep, when I remember that Nokia's share prices are at a 13year-low. [Reuters and Curious Brain via Adverblog]
Dear Nokia: Please Stop Showing Us Phones Until They're Windows Phones
Nokia's got a new teaser trailer out for their shiny N9. And, like most Nokia hardware, it's great looking! Except for what's on the screen, which, as commenters are pointing out, appears to be Symbian. Ugh. Nokia: give us Windows.
Nokia Washes Hands of Symbian and Releases its Source Code to the Masses
Either this is the world's dullest April Fool's gag, or Nokia really has released the source code for Symbian. If it's the latter, that means developers can tinker with the builds, now that Nokia will no longer be developing the platform itself. [The Inq]
The Popularity of Every Smartphone OS, Visualized
It's easy to throw numbers around about the relatively popularity here in the US of Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and so on. But it's not until you see the comparison laid bare in bold, blocky colors like this that you get a real feel for the playing field.
Nokia: Culture Will Out
Before starting Urbanscale, his own design firm, Adam Greenfield spent two years as Nokia's head of design direction for user interfaces and services. Here, he explains how Nokia's focus on commodity over user experience led to the company's precipitous decline.
Rogue Nokia Shareholders End Their Revolt After 36 Hours
Those "nine young Nokia shareholders" (who were also former/current employees) called off their revolt in just a day-and-a-half. The problem? Other investors wanted no part of their mutiny. And, the Symbian developers are going to leave by May 3 anyway, leaving nobody to actually carry out Plan B's Symbian development…
Rogue Nokia Shareholders Are Calling for Stephen Elop's Head
A group of "nine young Nokia shareholders" who used to work at Nokia are demanding that the rapidly-morphing company fire CEO Stephen Elop, extend the life of Symbian by five years and restore MeeGo as the focus of future Nokia smartphones. All of their laughably asinine demands can be consumed in full over at [Nokia…
Nokia Only Cared About Megapixels
Bits confirms much of what has been inferred or assumed over the last few years regarding Nokia: up until this week, they couldn't have cared less about software or design. This quote, from Nokia's former head of design, says it all:
Over a Thousand Nokia Employees Reportedly Walk Out in Protest
While Nokia's partnership with Microsoft will undoubtedly present some attractive prospects for phone-buyers, there's one cohort that's not too happy about the news: the employees in Nokia's Finnish offices. According to a Finnish newspaper, over a thousand employees left the Nokia offices in Tampere and Oulu this…
Nokia Finally Faces the Hard Truth
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is pissed the Finnish cellphone maker relinquished their market dominance to Apple and Google. Real pissed. Fearing the company has reached a point of no return, Elop issued a no-holds-barred 1,300-word memo to employees, and seems primed to make some bold moves in the next week to help Nokia…
Dear Android/iOS/WebOS, Please Steal/Copy/Pirate This Idea from Nokia
Occasionally, Nokia will show flashes of their former greatness, reminding us why they used to be one of the most relevant cellphone companies in the world. This idea for shortcuts on the lockscreen, is one of those occasional moments.
