Now Nokia has officially announced that Symbian is dead. Nokia 808 Pureview was the last Symbian mobile phone. Nokia announced this while announcing its quarterly results. Nokia showed $585 million profit and $10.83 billion in revenue for Q4.
“During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian. The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia,” Nokia said in press event.
Symbian played a main role in the success of Nokia. It also played key part in the smartphone game over the past ten years. After the touchscreen devices came, Symbian started getting tough competition. It has few popular Symbian phone which we cannot forget. In the beginning of 2011, Nokia started shifting on Windows Phone.
Although, company has managed to sell 4.4 million Lumia smartphones, its market share is still very low.
Symbian was the first smartphone operating system but it could not compete with other latest operating systems. So it was a nice move from Nokia. SO long Symbian.
