Nokia Still Relies On MeeGo and Symbian

Nokia is committed to restore the glory in the realm of smartphones. Not only that, the Finnish mobile phone vendor is also planning to not using the operating system (OS) other than Symbian or Linux MeeGo. “I have a goal to ensure that Nokia still leads in the market and become intellectuals in creating the digital world,” wrote Head of Mobile Solution Nokia Anssi Vanjoki in a blog on the official website of Nokia.

He added that the first battle that must be able to pass by Nokia now is to bring the products and services desired by consumers.

Quoted from the Times of India, Friday (7/9/2010), Nokia’s profits and sales of smartphones in the world’s is getting weaken in the second quarter, with Apple’s iPhone as the toughest challenger. Vanjoki said, it would be a tough task to make the Nokia back to lead the smartphone market. But he is optimistic, Nokia has all the assets realizing it by using Symbian OS and MeeGo. “Symbian and MeeGo is the best software for our smart devices. Therefore, we do not plan to use other software,” he said.

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Nokia Will Not Turn To Android OS

Will Nokia use Android as its OS ? The rumor on Nokia’s next OS appears when Nokia has recently launched Nokia N900 with Maemo OS which based on Linux. Not only that, Nokia will also launch Meego OS in cooperation with Intel. The decision on using open source OS like android is the reason behind the question.

Kenny Mathers, Nokia’s Head of Developer Relations and Marketing for Pacific Asia, stated that Nokia will not turn to Android as it’s basic OS. Nokia so far already use Symbian which still lead the markets with percentage over 44%. The statement was made during Nokia Connection 2010 that is held in Singapore recently.

In the middle of high-end android OS, Symbian Operation System is still used by some manufactures like Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson. Nokia N8 has even based it’s OS using Symbian^3 platform, the latest version of Nokia’s Symbian.