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

Posted by timothy on from the please-turn-out-the-lights dept.

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.'"

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  1. I didn't like it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't like it when the Symbians kidnapped Patty Hearst, but their phones were OK for a while.

    1. Re:I didn't like it by cshark · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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    2. Re:I didn't like it by Kjella · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  2. Sorry to see Symbian go by johanw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Sorry to see Symbian go by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  3. That's too bad, RIP Symbian... by VP · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is worse is that it is hard to find any existing Symbian devices...

    For all the drawbacks of Symbian, the combination of a camera that put to shame any other cellphones, and the built-in capabilities of the phone (e.g. a complete SIP stack, integrated with the regular phone functionality) is still unmatched. Even Nokia themselves cannot replicate the hardware capabilities of the 808 in a Windows phone, because the OS can't handle them...

  4. Get your gruesome details here: by whoever57 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Detailed analysis of Nokia.

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