The Losing Symbian

As we know, Symbian got its popularity in 2005-2008 and most of its popularity was come from its Nokia’s creation, S60, while the others are not too popular because MOAP is only in Japan, UIQ is bankrupt and S80 and S90 are discontinued by Nokia. So, in 2010, the all Symbian source code are made open, hopefully Symbian will develop nicely and can compete with other Platform. The first open source Symbian is Symbian^3 and made its debut in Q4 2010 with Nokia N8. Okay, some people are praised the Symbian^3 but later in 2011, it’s getting worse. Nokia will use Windows Phone 7 after made agreement with Microsoft. Symbian won’t be discontinued at all, but Nokia still want to use it, but not in higher priority.

So, why Symbian is losing right now, while all analysts said its popularity won’t be down until 2013?

Well, their analysis is coming sooner, 2 years faster, in 2011. This is why Symbian is gonna be lose:

Old Fashioned

Current Symbian-Foundation-supported platforms UI model are still same since long before (except Symbian^2).

And here, I will give you all Symbian S60 UI (until Symbian^1) from 1st Generation until Symbian^3.

Generic Symbian S60 1st Generation UI (released in 2002)

Generic Symbian S60 2nd Generation UI (released in 2003)

Generic Symbian S60 3rd Generation UI (released in 2005)

Generic Symbian S60 3rd Generation Feature Pack 2 UI (released in 2007)

Generic Symbian S60 5th Generation a.k.a. Symbian^1 UI (released in 2008)

Generic Symbian^3 UI (released in 2010)

p.s.: No need to see Symbian^2 and MOAP because it’s only in Japan.

No Innovation

Nokia, as the leader of this Open Source project, seems not too serious in developing Symbian. In the other side, Nokia develops Maemo (not based on Symbian, but Linux) and seems gonna be the premier smartphone. Then, this is the result, both platforms are losing.

 

So, this is why Symbian is losing right now, and sometimes everything should be changed, and have its own portion.

Then, voila! Is this gonna be the Nokia phone with Windows? (from engadget, taken from DetikInet)