Nokia shipping dual core processor equiped phones in 2011....?

I have an N8 and while the newer models "sound" great. I'm reminded of an old saying. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" Essentially I'm cool with having the model I have now rather than wait for pie in the sky.
 
Let's suppose the N9 is the flagship device, from what i've read it wont have a xenon flash. And for many, myself included thats a deal breaker right their. So if not having "the" flagship device means I get a real flash then I'll pass on their "flagship" as I prefer a photographic flash. Nothing can beat a xenon flash.
 
Nokia will probably keep using low/middle end chips for their Symbian phones. I expect the Japanese versions of Symbian to be the ones using the dual core chips.
 
Symbian is not Linux based but it is multithreaded. Symbian was already on a PSION organizer when Linux was some project in a PC.

I don't understand what you mean pseudo multitasking on Android. Android was meant, somehow, able to give a separate process ID and preempt/time slice each separate process within the Dalvik VM, and unlike Symbian, is able to suspend in state and then self terminate these processes without user's permission, allowing the OS to regain memory. You can keep on launching app after app on Android and you won't run out of memory (because previously launched ones gets suspended or terminated).
 
I suspect Nokia will do dual core with Meego tablets. But I do believe they still have do dual core even on their Symbian phones as they don't seem to have any choice on this matter, given their chip suppliers are all moving to dual core anyway.

Japanese moving to Android in a big way, fusing their unique mobile technologies with the Android OS to create a new breed of Keitai --- and these are selling so well (see recent sales of IS03 and Lynx 3D) they are beating both the iPhone and import Androids like the Galaxy S. If the trend continues, Symbian will be displaced on keitai.
 
The Japanese versions of Symbian probably won't run on dual core chips. NTT's symbian is even more dumbphoneish than regular Symbian... they don't support multitasking, for example. They don't treat it as a smartphone platform.
 
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