When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a new smartphone, the N900, powered by its Maemo Linux variant, this summer, it seemed to be dipping its toe in to the water of an entirely new firmware future.
Nokia’s much-hyped 5800 and N97 showed that Symbian is now ill-suited to running a sophisticated, modern and easy-to-use multimedia phone, so maybe Maemo lights the way…
Now The Really Mobile Project reports that Maemo marketing managers told a London N900 gathering Nokia will “drop Symbian from the entire
This news is just not correct. The first question is what do u call a modern OS? Is it the ui? Well if it is the ui you are correct, but in reality it is more about the system itself than the ui. You cant call an OS advanced because of how it looks.. can you look at a ford and say it is advanced because it looks nice? The ui structure of symbian, avkon is what has been giving it a bad name. The avkon framework will be dumped in a year's time and replaced with a more flexible structure based on Qt. You argument about symbian not being able to compete with 'more advanced os' is flawed.
Tell me what does android and the iphone os has other than the ui that is more advanced than symbian? Symbian is the os not the ui. Iphone's os is so crippled it cant even multitask nor do we have access to the file system, do u call that advanced?
The iphone os suffers from a critical power management issue because of how the os handles the memory and processor, is that advanced? Android os can only run up to 6 apps in the background before it starts closing down no matter how much ram is available, i can run 25 apps on my e71 without 1 closing. Not that any1 needs 25 apps open but the point is that the android os is so darn dumb that it cant look on the ram available and decide whether or not to shut down a certain app, the limit has to be set by default. Now symbian have far superior power and ram management than any other Os available whether it might be iphone, java-smartphone os or a bunch of webpage running on a linux webserver that is called an OS. I dare you to argue with me on this one; symbian is the most advanced os out now. The only problem is the ui which will be fixed.
What part of the n900 ui is taken from s60v5 except the icons? Nothing else is similiar between the two so get your curves straighten before you attemped to inform the general public.
What hampers the N97 isn't Symbian OS but the archaic and cumbersome S60 UI framework, Avkon, and Nokia's poor hardware choices. The Samsung i8910, which uses the same software as the N97 but a TI OMAP 3430 chipset, flies in comparison. T
Nokia need to allow innovation of the Symbian UI and hopefully the move to Qt and open sourcing of the underlying operating system will enable that before it's too late.
Seems the author of the article has confused S60 (which is the UI framework) with Symbian (which is the OS). As someone who has seen the innards of all 3 OSs – Symbian despite being the grandfather is way more advanced than both iPhone OS and Android. The S60 UI is what needs to be dumped not the OS – dont throw out the baby with the bathwater!