Go straight to Symbian 3 do not pass Go
Nokia has said that it will ignore Symbian 2 to jump straight to version 3 by the third quarter of this year. Symbian 3 has multi-touch which is becoming jolly important in helping see the back of Apple in the market place.
General manager of Nokia Taiwan.Michael Hsu, said that the cunning plan was to move to version 4 in late 2010 or early 2011. Symbian version 4 is based on the QT cross-platform application development framework developed by Trolltech, which Nokia acquired in June 2008, said industry sources. This allows developers to come up with application software which supports Symbian and Maemo platforms at the same time.
Nokia is still committed to flogging Maemo-based mobile computing devices, Symbian S60-based smartphones as well as Symbian S40-based feature phones. Hsu said that the prices for Symbian S60-based models will drop over the next year. He told Digitimes that by 2011, smartphones based on the Symbian S60-platform will account for 55 per cent of Nokia's total handset shipments, followed by Symbian S40 feature phones at 35 per cent. Only one in ten nokia phones will run Maemo.
