Nokia's Nseries to ditch Symbian after the N8, adopt MeeGo

By on Jun 23, 2010 at 12:35 PM
General June 23, 2010

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During a meeting with representatives from Nokia, CNet Australia was informed that the Nokia N8 will be the last Nseries handset to ship running Symbian. After it launches, all future Nseries handsets will be running MeeGo. But that isn’t to say that this is the end of the line for Symbian-based handsets from Nokia. Instead of placing Symbian on its flagship devices, the S60 version of the OS will be relegated to middle of the road handsets from the X and Eseries, while S40 will be loaded up on handsets from the Cseries.

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  • sirpaul

    Ban the vuvuzela!!!

    • mingkee

      NO WAY!!!
      It’s a fun African trumpet to play.

  • mingkee

    It’s about time.
    Even short-lived Maemo (envolved to MeeGo) is better than Symbian square.

  • mi_canuck

    great news, but kinda stupid to announce it so close to the N8 releasing… pretty much guaranteeing no one will buy the N8 as it’s made obsolete with the announcement of MeeGo

  • Carniphage

    Thank the skies! – Finally Nokia realise that having two competing OSes is not helping them sell phones to consumers.

    Stage 1 completed.

    Now for stage 2.
    Make sure that MeeGo is fit for purpose – as a user-friendly phone OS.

    Currently it isn’t.

    Then there will only be 4 or 5 more stages before Nokia have a credible way forward.

    C.

  • http://www.alphamaven.com justin

    Where’s the press event coverage of the droid x? No one seems to have mentioned it today and it should be well under way.

    • sirpaul

      They put it up a few minutes ago :)

  • SW Engineer

    Decided to splurge and just bought an N900 today. Should probably start getting familiar with Maemo/Meego anyway.

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