My understanding is that the S60 flavour, which was the one most people were getting excited about in the old days (pre-iphone, and def pre-android) is pretty much dead in the water going forward. Instead, Symbian's future lies in stripping back features - it's S40 that's going to hit the big time as a very simple, very cheap OS in the millions upon millions of phones that are being shipped into developing countries.
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My understanding is that the S60 flavour, which was the one most people were getting excited about in the old days (pre-iphone, and def pre-android) is pretty much dead in the water going forward. Instead, Symbian's future lies in stripping back features - it's S40 that's going to hit the big time as a very simple, very cheap OS in the millions upon millions of phones that are being shipped into developing countries.