Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line

Snirt writes "Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company's earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform: 'During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian,' the company wrote. 'The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia.'"

Comments

Sorry to see Symbian go

[johanw]

Symbian phones were very feature complete (much more so than Android and iOS, my E72 has functionality that even now isn't standard on those) and I don't like to see it go. I still use a Nokia E72 as my primary phone and plan to do so for some more years, I even bought a spare used E72 in case something happens to it. Now that rooting Symbian is easy I even get functionality that was Android specific for some time, like adblocking with a hostsfile. And of course a week of battary use, get that from any current device.

Re:Sorry to see Symbian go

[gstoddart]

I'm betting you'd only get the core OS, but most of the stuff related to actual telephony would be patented/proprietary.

I'd be surprised if you could fully operate your phone with the open source bits -- but admittedly, that's mostly just a guess.

Re:I didn't like it

[cshark]

Both systems are expensive, clunky, profit losing failures. I wish Nokia would go with Android. Their hardware isn't bad.

Re:I didn't like it

[Kjella]

People like you don't seem to get it. Symbian HAS failed. If it hadn't it would be here today.

That's like saying a man's heart failed - because it had a knife stabbed through it. It's dead but not by natural causes and the CEO holding the knife is Elop.