Samsung discontinuing support of Symbian December 31

By on Oct 1, 2010 at 2:20 PM
General October 1, 2010

Last week, we heard about Sony Ericsson bailing on Symbian and this week it looks like Samsung is following suit.  In a message to developers, Samsung noted that it would stop supporting Symbian developers on December 31, 2010. “We recommend posting any new discussion board queries no later than the 10th of December 2010 to ensure your issue can be addressed prior to the Forum’s closure,” wrote Samsung. “Please take this opportunity to download any required documentation before all content is removed.” It doesn’t get more clear cut than that. Samsung is suggesting developers utilize symbian.org as an alternative.

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  • Nokia N900

    What!?!?!

  • Digger

    I would’nt be too broke up about this. It’s not a big surprise. Samsung does’nt support anything. That’s their M.0. Their WM and Android Support is nothing to crow about either.

    Samsung, like Nokia wants to be a player in the services & software end of things. That is what bada is all about.

    They can’t continue to support Symbian/Nokia Services while trying to develop their own which in the end they won’t support either.

    • Steve B Job

      Mr Digger. You dotn get it. Samsung is dropping Symbian bcoz they see no hope for symbian. Get it ??.

      Wait , within 12 months Nokia will drop symbian AND meego.

      • Mike

        Sorry Steve-O

        You don’t get it.

        Dig Man is absolutely correct.

        Nokia will end Symbian and go towards Meego. You are correct there.

        But it has nothing to do with Samdungs actions now.

      • Steve B Job

        Nokia will be forced to drop MEEGO in 12 months. Only way for them to survive is with android.

      • Mike

        Didn’t you say the same thing a year ago?

      • Wild Bill

        Ahhhhh!

        More Boy Genuis Phone Pyschics at work!

  • TONY

    Samsung isn’t worth having around anyway, neither is Nokia, especially in the states. Only morons purchase these products.

    • Steve B Job

      Sour grapes. If you cant afford Galaxy or the tab, you need to find a better job than being at Wendy’s. Loser

      • Donny

        LoL at the Verizon homer above me…

  • Mike

    At least Nokia even if you are in the states supports its phones to some degree. I have a year and a half year old Nokia 5800 that I still use occasionally for music and a few other things, and Nokia is still rolling out updates and new software for it. Thats pretty decent support if you ask me.

    Samsung on the other hand as someone else mentioned, doesn’t support crap.

  • Beelzebub

    As filed under: Shit We Missed That Every Other Blog Reported On Yesterday
    :)

  • YeaBoy!

    About time Samsung dropped the Symbian OS. Symbian’s US market share has been bleeding out for years.

  • jarrod

    I’ve never seen a symbian device

  • http://shoe-nuff.blogspot.com cam

    not going to complain on bgr updates, rather than read thru engadget’s thesis about this bgr goes straight to the guts, honest reporting, now they do exercise some degree of apple bias but thats because apple makes everything seem new somehow. but on topic yeah have to agree with above users bada is samsungs own os so no surprise, symbian is aging but it still has few tricks, its pretty much android os little annoying brother. android and symbian can coexist quite nicely, meego is another story its a beast of a mobile os.

  • JM

    What was the last Samsung phone with Symbian that anyone cared about? I can’t recall a single one.

  • rp2009

    I hope Nokia does well with meego as well as MS and HP with their own OS. I would hate for Android and iOS to be the only alternatives. The more competition, the better for the consumer.

  • Joe C.

    History has shown that on any platform there is only room for two competing operating systems, with a third small alternative. All others are detroyed and or support is dropped. Consumers, as it were, don’t actually like choice.

  • http://aatechno.blogspot.com m4tic

    There’s no reason for symbian to fail. people, especially in the US believe touch screen phones are the way to go and only them. symbian’s large user base is on mobiles like the E-series, even my mom’s loving it. also iphone and android’s app stores, big as they are don’t have the reach nokia’s ovi has. nokia has over 190 countries supporting paid apps, apple and android? considering that both apple and google got a head start with their stores it would seem logical that they have most coverage right? in the long run nokia’s making a lot of money and if it takes sacrificing the US market why should they complain? the fact that they bring music downloads in every country more than apple ever has is quite an achievement and it’s good for the brand. so all this symbian is dead thing isn’t true, smartphones aren’t limited to touch screens you know. nokia’s still selling 270000 a dat and that’s an increase from early smartphone stats.

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