Nokia Stops Making Symbian Phones

Bangalore: Nokia is planning to put an end to its Symbian OS, which has powered its initial range of Smartphones. From July, the Finnish manufacturer will only develop Smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform.

According to Nokia’s announcement, the PureView 808 will be Nokia’s last phone running this OS and the company will be dispatching the final shipments late this summer. Nokia is blaming the low sales of Symbian phones and also the time lag in developing a Symbian product, which is almost double as that of a Windows based one.

After Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft, the company was giving less importance to its Symbian platform. Before the PureView 808, other popular Smartphones based on Symbian platform were Nokia 9210 communicator, the Nokia E61 and E71 in the QWERTY E-Series and the Nokia N95 and N8.

The company will now be focusing on its Asha platform for the low-range phones and Windows Phone for the Smartphone range.