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After Nokia's adoption of Windows Mobile 7 as their primary OS, will this result in the end of S40 based phones? Will they ever manufacture any non-smartphone in the future after the death of Symbian?

Saikat Basu
2011-08-09 04:37:00
Here's what a news item dated March says - Still the company promised that it won't be dropping the Symbian^3 support immediately even if their first devices with the Microsoft turn out to be a huge success. Nokia says that it will be offering some support until the natural lifecycle of the Symbian^3 smartphones has ended in an attempt to convince users to switch to the WP7 after that.On some markets such as China, India, Russia and Turkey, the Symbian^3 smartphone platform will continue to be marketed alongside Windows Phone 7. [ Source ]Nokia has also managed to form an agreement with Accenture , which as an outsourcing program will do the job of developing Symbian based software and also provide support services to Nokia through 2016.But all in all, it does represent a major shift in focus and that's not a great sign in terms of the highly competitive mobile market.
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Susendeep Dutta
2011-08-09 07:35:00
Still do Nokia will decline S40 based phones too after a certain time period?