Nokia loves telling the realm concerning the 150 million Symbian handsets it’s going to ship within the future years. Problem is, that’s removed from a factual statement — it’s a goal, a hope, and something in an effort to only be possible if developers and fans don’t abandon the platform wholesale because the company transitions from Symbian to Windows Phone smartphones over the subsequent two years . As such, Nokia is desperately looking to convince us that Symbian and the Qt developer framework are removed from dead. In an open letter of encouragement to developers from Purnima Kochikar, VP of Nokia Forum & Developer Community, Purnima attempts to coax devs into fine-tuning their Qt skills in preparation for a “strong portfolio” of recent Symbian products with “GHz+” processing and faster graphics coming in 2011 and 2012. Presumably she’s talking in regards to the T7 , X7 , and E6 leaks among others. And since Symbian continues to be the leading smartphone platform in markets like China, India, Russian, and Turkey, she hints that Nokia will likely continue to support Symbian well past the transition to Windows Phone, at the least in select markets.
In fact, hardware hasn’t ever really been Nokia’s issue so it’s nice to listen to Purnima decide to a primary major Symbian user experience update this summer that comes with the hot home screen, icons, browser, and navbar we’ve already seen , as well as a “fresh appear and feel” to the Ovi Store and Maps with the latter also getting a integrated social media services update. The Symbian update — a number of which has already been seen at the C7 Astound — will come to “all users” over the air. Too late to save lots of the platform but just in time for the Symbian faithful.
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