By Allen Tsai | Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:17 pm |
Nokia said it will drop Symbian and switch to Linux in its N-series smartphones, as it seeks to better challenge rivals Apple and Google.
The Finnish phone maker said the N8 will be the last N-series phone to run its Symbian mobile operating system. The N-series has been the company's flagship line and had dominated the smartphone sector for years until the arrival of the iPhone."Going forward, N-series devices will be based on MeeGo," said Doug Dawson, a Nokia spokesman. MeeGo, which was developed by merging Nokia's Linux Maemo platform with Intel's Moblin platform, is based on Linux's open-source software. While Symbian still leads the software market for smartphones, it has been losing market share amid the rise of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices. Last month Nokia delayed the launch of its new Symbian 3 software to the third quarter, prompting analysts to speculate that the software is in trouble. Linux, meanwhile, has been gaining traction in the total market share, surging to 14 percent in the first quarter from 8.5 percent a year ago. Smartphone sales surged over 50 percent in the January-March period, according to Strategy Analytics, an industry research firm, accounting for nearly one in five phones sold.
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Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:39 pm | By
Nokia's recent loss in profits highlights the company's difficult transition, as it shifts towards Windows phones and gears up for big changes in this year.
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Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:14 am | By
Nokia's Windows Phone-powered Lumia 900 will sell for $100 when it launches at AT&T later this year, according to reports, in a move that will raise the profiles of the maker and the OS.
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Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:30 am | By
Nokia shipped more than one million Lumia handsets last year, analysts estimate, signaling early success for the company's critical Microsoft partnership.
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Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:02 pm | By
Analysts predict a surge of sales for the Windows Phone platform, as Nokia and Microsoft head into the smartphone market in 2012 with updated hardware and plans for heavy promotion.
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