Nokia will focus on building for the Windows Phone platform

Oct 1, 2012 06:58 GMT  ·  By

Last year, Nokia announced the adoption of a new strategy on the smartphone market, as Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has become its main operating system for these devices.

As part of this strategy, the company is moving the focus on the development of a series of applications to Windows Phone, while leaving previously used mobile platforms aside.

This is the case with the handset vendor’s Nokia City Lens augmented reality application, which was launched on Symbian devices a few years ago.

Those of you who head over to the Nokia Beta Labs to grab a version of the application will learn that the Symbian and MeeGo versions of the software will see no further development.

These app iterations will remain available for download in the form they are today, but they will see no new enhancements.

In fact, the City Lens team also notes that no support for the Belle Refresh platform is planned for the application.

“With Windows Phone as our new main smartphone platform, naturally our focus for the development of our mobile location-based applications has also switched to Windows Phone,” the team explains.

“Thus moving forward, we are concentrating our efforts for the further development of Nokia City Lens on our Lumia range. You will still be able to use this current beta version for Symbian and the N9; however, it does not support the latest Nokia Belle Refresh update. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

“We are very grateful for your feedback, suggestions and insights and thank you for using and contributing to Nokia City Lens,” the team continues.

One thing that is certain is that something like this was bound to happen, and that it doesn’t come too much as a surprise that Nokia did make the move. Most probably, other applications that are currently available for both Symbian and Windows Phone might share a similar fate.