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Symbian OS ditched by Sony Ericsson and Samsung

James Thornton

James Thornton

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Symbian logoThese are troubling times for the Symbian mobile operating system. Earlier this week, Sony Ericsson announced that it will stop making devices based on the OS. Today, in another blow to the open source platform, Samsung has also revealed that it is pulling its support for Symbian.

This leaves Nokia as the only major handset manufacturer to still be making phones that run Symbian, a platform which remains the world’s most popular mobile OS. From a software developer’s perspective the ditching of Symbian by Sony Ericsson and Samsung could actually be a blessing, however. These developers will now be content in the knowledge that their creations will probably only ever go to market on a Nokia handset, allowing them to concentrate on implementing apps that tightly integrate with this hardware.

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