Along with the release of Nokia’s Q4 financial report, the company also confirmed that the Nokia 808 PureView would be the company’s last smartphone to be powered by the Symbian operating system. The Symbian platform has been on Nokia devices since the late 80’s and has been Nokia’s main platform since the company acquired it in June 2008.Since then the platform has found it difficult to compete against the new era of iOS and Android devices and eventually was overtaken by Android by the end of 2010 as the most popular smartphone operating system.
Even through Nokia chose to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform as it primary operating system, they have continued to ship Symbian based devices as part of their transition. It is fitting that the Symbian platform is bowing out with a device like the 808 PureView which demonstrates Nokia’s amazing imaging capabilities on smartphone cameras.
The 41 megapixel PureView camera is capable of capturing some amazing images and has still to be succeeded by a Windows Phone device. This imaging master is probably greatly responsible for the 2.2 million Symbian devices which the company reported to have sold in its Q4 report. While Nokia seems to have found success with the Windows Phone platform, the company still has a long way to go and we hope that the upcoming EOS smartphone will be the suitable successor to the 808 PureView.
Despite newer operating systems like iOS, Android and Windows Phone boasting user friendliness, we still feel that Symbian is unmatched in its features, and we are sad to say good bye.
source – Nokia