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Nokia Reasserts Control Over Symbian OS

Posted by Soulskill on from the back-in-the-saddle dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Nokia is asserting its control over the Symbian OS that runs many of its smartphones, taking the tasks of developing the operating system away from the independent Symbian Foundation, which will now focus on licensing and intellectual property issues. Of course, this also illustrates Symbian's importance to Nokia's smartphone plans, even though the company is also developing phones that run the Linux-based Meego OS."

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  1. They're still around? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's been a long time since I've used a Nokia. People still buy those cumbersome old phones?

  2. Re:Yes i do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it's just related to n900 Persecution Syndrome. The same way that n900 fanatics feel the need to crowbar their favoritest phone EVAR into every conversation no matter how tangental they make the connection just to evangelize their clearly superiorer phone (because they and they alone need to break the stranglehold the global conspiracy of all other smartphones has, which clearly exists else the obvious superiority of the n900 would dominate all, hands down), other Nokia users see accusations and questions in everything that has to do with cell phones in general, complete with the deeply-rooted urge to constantly defend their phone and their loyalty to it.