Nokia has told TechRadar that there is no truth in the rumours it is set to join with the Open Handset Alliance and launch an Android phone.
The Guardian is citing industry insiders who claim that the new device will be unveiled at the Nokia World event in Germany in September.
But Nokia has told us: "There is no truth to this story whatsoever. It is a well known fact that Symbian is our platform of choice for smartphones."
It would have been quite a departure for Nokia to launch such a device given the company owns the Symbian Foundation (makers of the Symbian Mobile OS) and is a staunch stalwart of said platform (obviously).
Market vs Ovi
Were Nokia to have moved to Android, it would have placed Google Market in direct competition with the recently released Ovi Store, which does the same thing.
However, the current high end Symbian S60 platform Nokia (and Samsung) currently use on the likes of the N97 and i8910HD may still have a limited life span, although there's no word on when that could be.
This is because Nokia is still beavering away on the new Maemo platform, its OS for its internet tablets, which could make the jump to future mobile phones too, so we'll have to wait and see which path the Finnish bigwigs take.
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anruari2
July 6th
2. Competition is good.
Open Source is good.
Nokia have 2 open source projects. Symbian and MAEMO. Presumeably they will aim to merge these two as it makes little sense to have two separate systems based on totally separate OS's.
Let's welcome open source diversity. Symbian and Android.
Nokia are aiming to consolodate the Symbian family of systems into a single operating system. and good on them for that.
I dissagree with Gavin. I had my first Nokia in a S60 based N95 8GB. I fournd getting used to most of the functions on that system to be very easy. Much better than on earlier semi-smart phones like my motorola A1000. And infinately superior to the dreadful interface of the WinMo implementation on my current Vodaphone V1615 (aka HTC TyTN / Htc Kaizer)
When Company B comes up with a better Idea than company A that's the market working correctly
Then when company A take those ideas and pretend that they are new and their own that's party politics / Microsoft
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gavin
July 6th
1. Thats a shame, NOKIA's UI is pretty dire.
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