Nokia looks at Symbian powered Laptops in the future
February 26th, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 70 times, 1 so far today
Nokia looks at Symbian powered Laptops in the future
Nokia has revealed that they are looking at the possibility of launching Symbian powered laptops in the future.
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement: “We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging. We are looking very actively also at this opportunity.”
Symbian is currently used on mobile devices and it is one of the most popular smartphone OS in the world.
It faces massive competition with the new players entering the market including Google Android and Palm webOS.
Asus in fact has already revealed that they are working on an Android platform powered netbook. Though they are not sure if they would make it available for sale in the retail market.
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February 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I hope smartphone OSs eventually evolve to a concept where there is a common Linux platform with different installable “desktops” (e.g. Android/webOS/Symbian/Blackberry/etc.)…kinda like KDE & GNOME.
This would make it easier for component manufacturers, since there would be a common set of drivers for all devices and it would also benefit consumers, since they could change “desktops”, without changing devices.