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First Glimpse of Nokia’s Symbian 4 Operating System
- mseebach 17y agoNokia can not enter the game at this stage by merely imitating Android and iPhone. They need a game-changer, and judging from this video, they don't have it. Series 60 and 80 were decent for their time, but Android has them beaten on every single front, IMHO. There's still time to enter the high-end hardware market for Android, Nexus and Droid are so far unchallenged, but they'll have to move fast. If they insist on Symbian 4, I predict they'll be wiped out from the smart-phone market.
- zokier 17y agoSymbian is Nokias low/middle-end OS, while Maemo (think N900) will be more direct competitor to iPhone and Android. edit: also imho Nokias problem is not the quality of their products, but the heavily distorted market in US which makes it difficult to a foreign company like Nokia to compete.
- nickpp 17y agoAre they still relevant? Seems to me that the mobile war is between Apple, Google & RIM at this point, with Microsoft and Nokia already out.
- AndrewDucker 17y agoThis would be the company who owns 36% of the global market in phones. The largest phone maker in the world today. Oh, and 47% of the smartphone market: http://www.cultofmac.com/gartner-data-places-iphone-os-as-third-biggest-smartphone-platform-globally/31803 http://www.cultofmac.com/gartner-data-places-iphone-os-as-th... Yes. Still relevant. Android, on the other hand, has 4%.