(OFFICIAL THREAD) How do you feel about Symbian?

Actually, that chart shows that Symbian in the US has no to little change for the length of the chart, so the only thing that it shows is that it's just low. The only ones going down are BBOS and BBOS. It also shows that most of the Android market share has come from mostly from Windows Mobile and a little from BBOS. So that chart doesn't demonstrate anything beyond common knowledge.
 
SO SORRY.

What the hell does popularity / adoption rate / usage numbers have to do with power?

Please tell me why the chart has Windows Mobile and Palm OS on it. Also, what specifically does "Linux" refer to? Get a real source to back up what YOU'RE saying and then come back so I can poke holes in it.

Where do you little gophers keep popping up from? I'm getting tired of beating skulls in.
 
I feel like it's a great OS for tweakers and people who time to fiddle. much like the early PC industry, there was a real market for systems that allowed for tweakers to have fun. but things change fast and Nokia was very slow to recognize the change and adapt to it. now they are in danger of becoming irrelevant in North America and in time ROW. nokia will continue to offer product that appeals to a certain niche market, tech savvy, iconoclastic, people who don't mind figuring stuff out themselves. but that is not going to be enough to sustain such a huge company. I predict that nokia may adopt Android for low and mid range and try to make a go of Meego for high end....
 
@ sillieidiot: The whole reason they are abandoning Symbian in their future phones is because there US sales have plummeted.

@ Lordscr: While it may not show too much change, it shows the common knowledge that is moving Symbian away from Nokia; Nokia US sales are down. That is why this thread was created, because Nokia US sales are down and to fix that Nokia is switching to another OS for there newer phones.

@ oddsocks: I would say the Nielson company is on top of their "real" sources: http://en-us.nielsen.com/

@ bendit: thank you for your opinion rather than trying to pick a fight. I can see Nokia considering the Andriod OS, mainly because its popularity is jumping at a quick pace.

It is common knowledge that Nokia is dominating global sales but the reason why they are switching OS of their high-end phones is because US sales are down.

Now please everyone, stay on topic and express your opinion of Symbian and this change.
 
They will definitely support Symbian for a while. For the most part, Symbian^3 appears good enough, but S60 V5 at this point should be cast away.

At this point however, there is nothing on Symbian^3 that will draw back users that have moved out to iPhone, Android or even Blackberry, but Nokia can still catch users migrating out of featurephones into smartphones for the first time and probably able to keep some Nokia users migrating out with the new devices being introduced. Also at this point, Nokia is suffering from brand erosion, especially on South East Asia where it has traditional stronghold.

The four new devices (C6-01, C7, N8 and E7) appears it can hold the fort for a while, maybe give a vital short term life injection on Nokia, but they need to follow up with even more devices to keep the "buzz" going.
 
As it is, no problem, it does what I need and I have no complaints other than it could be a little quicker and it could stream asf/ram files in the background.
 
That's all you have to say to my reply? I don't care a flying fig newton about Nielson - you're linking a chart that has Palm OS, Windows Mobile and an obscure reference to "Linux". This is relevant how?

Nokia isn't switching to Symbian solely because of the US market. If *all* they cared about was winning on the good old 'merica, they'd switch to Android (like all the foamed-mouth-breathers are clamoring for) and become a dunce-OEM manufacturer. That's not their game.
 
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I think I would be concidered a part of the somewhat "tech savvy" community that doesn't mind figuring stuff out. In it's current form I actually like the OS for what it is and how i'm able to integrate many of it's "out-of-the-box" native features into my life. The "tweaking" of these handsets was just par for the course. They called these "smartphones" for a reason. What does everyone think of this scenario: E-Series for business/communications, N-Series for AV/media-entertainment, and a product line of feature phones for EVERYONE ELSE.......oh.....wait.......they tried that already didn't they? Oh well. My only gripe is the subpar memory limitations and data transfer rates. Fix that for us Nokia, then give the lemmings with their feature phones a trillion useless apps to chase after....
 
Yes today the battle seems to be turning to an App battle. I my opinion, Nokia really needs to up their advertising game in the US. It is very seldom you see a Nokia commercial and many people know little of what Symbian is capable of and how many apps it has.
 
Having Symbian since the N82 and now seeing and feeling what a real open OS can allow...The way I feel about Symbian is ...It s a GREAT OS.....a few hears ago and still has that old tired feeling and look about it. The OVI strore is a mess. great Apps are few and far between more expensive and cannot be refunded within 24Hours.

Having a phone automatically integrate with Gmail, Picassa, Outlook. Maps, Latititude, goggles, Google checkout, etc without issue is sweet especially if one was already Google centric and used those applications for years anyway.

My N97 is officially benched in the used nokia drawer with my N95
 
I would have to say that while Symbian is slowly dying out, Meego will be the system we all will love and treat like symbian.

I don't think they will go with andriod...
 
Me neither after viewing their version of Android on YouTube.....Meego will do next year what Android is already doing,,,,
 
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