Is the mobile OS Symbian retiring soon after serving its fans for so many years, when at the same time the Finnish company Nokia promises to sell at least 150 million smartphones on this platform during the next few years.
Over the past six months, rumors have been circulating with the information about its future updates, which the company didn’t seem in any hurry to announce.
As it can well be guessed from the invitations sent out to journalists, Nokia is arranging a presentation for …

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Samsung may be wooing Nokia engineers to come work on the Korean company’s Bada operating system for its mobile devices, reports say.
There has been a lot of speculation about what will happen to Nokia’s proprietary Symbian mobile operating system after the Finnish company announced with Microsoft that it will be using the Windows Phone platform in it future high-end device market.
Many analysts say that it basically means the death of the Sybian OS and …

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For employees of Nokia who will be let go due to the company’s recent pact with Microsoft, Skype said that it would be happy to hire them, according to Reuters.
Recently, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that the Finnish phone giant will be making the Microsoft-developed Windows Phone mobile operating system the main platform for its high-end smartphones.
The deal sparked speculation that the company will soon be abandoning its …

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“It’s now a three-horse race,” Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop said.
Nokia announced today that it will make the Microsoft Corp.-developed Windows Phone platform the primary software platform for its high-end phones, in a bid to become more competitive in the persistently aggressive smartphone industry currently led by Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
Various experts see the partnership as confirming Nokia’s and …

Speculation that Nokia is in talks with Microsoft over building a line of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) phones have been renewed as Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review reported that the two companies have recently had closed-door meetings.

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There have long been rumors that Nokia will be building a line of WP7 devices mainly because its current Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Elop, has had close ties with Microsoft Corp.
Elop was the man overseeing the Microsoft Office suite from January …