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Kakrona Chan
Samsung has informed developers it will discontinue its Symbian support service beginning December 31 2010.
The news comes just days after Sony Ericsson announced its intention to cease Symbian support. The announcement means that the Symbian Foundation has lost two major members in as many weeks.
This doesn’t come as much of a surprise since Samsung has recently been focused more on manufacturing Android-based devices, such as the Galaxy S, while developing its own mobile platform,bada.
Besides Samsung and Sony Ericsson, other members of the Symbian Foundation are Fujitsu, Huawei, LG Electronics, Nokia and Sharp. With LG openly admitting it’s no longer interested in Symbian, Nokia stands as the biggest — perhaps even the last real — Symbian supporter, and even Nokia has lately been focusing much of its efforts on MeeGo, at least when it comes to high-end smartphones.
Symbian is still the world’s most popular smartphone platform, but it has consistently lost ground to competitors such as Android and iOS. The next two iterations of the OS, Symbian^3 and Symbian^4, should bring significant improvements and make Symbian more competitive against other mobile platforms, but with most major device manufacturers giving up on it, one has to wonder if Symbian is dead in the water.
[via mashable]
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