Nokia bought Symbian Limited

[M.Helen]

President of the Finnish company Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo announced the deal of purchasing Symbian Limited to be ended. The transaction amount is not specified.

Symbian Limited worked out Symbian, one of the most spread operating systems in the world. Almost all nokia smartphones use the Symbian OS.

Nokia's intentions were declared as far back as on 24 June, 2008. At that time, the negotiating amount was 264 million euros.

Until this transactions Symbian's shares was belonged as follows: Nokia - 56.3%; Ericsson - 15.6%, Sony Ericsson - 13.1%, Panasonic - 10.5%, Samsung - 4.5%

[M.Helen]

earlier or later, this should have happened. Most Nokia phones' platforms are symbian. I find it even better than windows mobile.

[Steven]

Did you know that Samsung announced that its all new models will be based on Symbian platform, and not windows mobile?

[Faw_Peter]

Did you know that Samsung announced that its all new models will be based on Symbian platform, and not windows mobile?

well that's because common users find it difficult to deal with windows mobile. It's best for pocket PCs but obviously not for phones, unless they have good interface similar to iPhone's