Nokia takes full responsibility for the development of Symbian OS

Nokia is still the largest manufacturer of mobile phones and is going beyond the limit in order not to give up the position of Android. Vice President of Nokia for smartphones Joe Harlow (Jo Harlow) said that since 2011, some models of smartphones on Symbian 3 will add functionality of wireless payments, as well as an on-screen keyboard like Swype , which is considered the fastest on mobile devices. At the same time add a vertical keyboard with a split screen into two parts and another 50 various minor improvements.

According to Harlow, all the necessary functions could not be introduced into the first release of Symbian 3, because time was needed to switch to Qt tools and adapt the functions for a separate Symbian 4 line.

Also announced that the Symbian Foundation is becoming the only licensing authority, and all the tasks of developing the platform are shifted to Nokia programmers. Information has already been confirmed on the official website of the Symbian Foundation.

Nokia is now working hard to reduce fragmentation and increase the amount of basic functionality on each smartphone. The quantity and quality of updates will be significantly increased.
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The British organization Symbian Foundation formally unites more than 150 vendors, but primarily represents the interests of Nokia.

Samsung and Sony Ericsson, which were one of the key members of the Symbian Foundation, have already transferred their products to the Android platform, so it is no longer interesting for them to invest resources in developing about 100 “packages” or functions of the Symbian operating system.

Initially, the idea was that each company would serve an equal number of packages: 20% for Nokia, 20% for Sony Ericsson, 20% for Samsung - but this did not happen. One or two packages were supported outside of Nokia, but the main part was already done by the programmers of the Finnish company, so the redistribution of powers that is taking place is quite logical.