Samsung and Symbian collaboration goes on

18th November, 2009 by adina
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Samsung has denied dropping Symbian in favor of the bada mobile in-house developed operating system, one day after the company’s VP, Don Joo, said that the break-up between the electronics manufacturer and Symbian is bound to happen. On November 12, 2009, the company stated that this strategy is not included in their future plans concerning smartphones. They also said that the company is one of the first members of the Symbian Foundation and wants to continue the group cooperation, alongside Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others.

The company’s statement is still far from being sure, as Samsung also sustains other operating systems, such as Linux, Android and Windows Mobile. Samsung’s policy is, as they said themselves, to listen to customers’ desires.

Symbian has had, however, its problems. It seems that Nokia, the most important user of the operating system, has also been thinking to drop Symbian in favour of Android for new, upcoming smartphones. These still remain as rumours.

Bada is supposed to be an open-source platform, created as a rival for Android and LiMo OS. It seems that it will be based on universal standards, allowing open up core features (contacts and dialer) for developers. Samsung phones will probably get bada OS somewhere in 2011. The cost of a new OS is yet to be known, as recent Samsung reports have been unclear.


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  1. Batterycentury says:
    November 18, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    I think Symbian will replaced by Android or other new OS one day.