Nokia Is Not Taking A U-Turn To Android!
The Guardian in its report had hinted that Nokia is planning to introduce an Android-based smart phone at the Nokia’s World conference in September. But Nokia immediately squashes the speculation about Android Handset. Nokia has more than 40 percent worldwide mobile phone market share but it is losing its market share to other platforms such as iPhone and Blackberry. Last year Nokia bought out remaining 52 percent of Symbian(more info) and made it a free and more open mobile operating system.Nokia’s popularity has been dwindling in recent years, and HSBC analysts quoted by the Guardian reckon that the Finnish company has lost smartphone market share, going down to 31 percent at the end of 2008 (from 47 percent in 2007).These story has created quite a buzz in the market but Nokia in the statement release to Reuters said
Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever. Everyone knows that Symbian is our preferred platform for advanced mobile devices.
Nokia denial seemingly seems that it is committed to its strategy of sticking with Symbian, which is the dominant smartphone OS globally. Nokia believes in driving straight!
Follow-Up
Guardian:Nokia Turns to Android in phone wars by Richard Wray
ZDNet: Could Nokia and Android be just what each other needs? by Jason Hiner
GIGAOM: Will Nokia Jettison Symbian for Android? by Om Malik
ComputerWorld: Nokia is/isn’t going to build an Android phone by Seth H. Weintraub
CrunchGear: Nokia denies plans to debut Android handset by Peter Ha
If Nokia were to head toward Linux, it would be much more believable that they’d use their own existing mobile linux platform (Maemo, which runs on their N810 MID). At most, I think they’d use Canonical’s project to run Android apps on top of Linux, to make Android apps run on Maemo.
(Twitter: @ ksantani )
says:
Great Thought John.. Running Android applications on top of Maemo can serve both the purposes for Nokia. First they dont have to use Android and the same time they can have hi-end applications of android.
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
says:
@johnkzin : That is right… It is both difficult and out right stupid if Nokia altogther shifts to Android.. They have invested a hell lot of time and money in Symbian(they even bought it out)… So, why on earth will Nokia dump it and adopt a 3rd party platform..?