New Delhi: Amidst Nokia's endeavours to match wits with rivals Apple and Google, a new report from Financial Times claims that the Finnish manufacturer is all set to dump its legacy Symbian software. If the report is to be believed, Nokia will stop shipments of its Symbian smartphones this summer and will bet its future entirely on Microsoft's Windows OS.
"The Finnish group will bring to an end deliveries of its last homegrown smartphone platform, which had looked unassailable as the world's leading operating system before the launch of Apple's iPhone," says the report.
Nokia seems to have taken this decision as its Symbian OS could not help it much to keep pace with innovations from Apple and Google. Following Apple's 2007 entrance into smartphones, Google rolled out its open-source Android operating system, which has become the standard for smaller phone makers.
Sales of smartphones with Microsoft Windows software have surpassed those using Nokia's old Symbian system. The report says, "Nokia sold just 500,000 Symbian units in the first quarter of 2013, much less than the 5.6 million Windows-based Lumia phones."
Nokia came up with the last new Symbian device in 2012 named the "808 Pureview". However, it also proved to be a dud.
"It took 22 months to get a Symbian phone out of the door. With Windows Phone, it is less than a year. We spend less time having to tinker with deep-lying code and more time on crafting elements of the experience that make a big difference, such as around photography, maps, music and apps in general," said Nokia in a statement.
It seems plausible that Nokia will not announce that it has stopped shipments as there exist stocks that need be sold.
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