14 DAY TRIAL // Symbian is not dead just yet, at least this is what Nokia claims, although the company already signed the OS's death sentence when it announced the adoption of Windows Phone as their primary mobile platform. In a recent interview, Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop said that the company would still offer updates for the mobile platform in the following few years, and that the OS is not dead just yet.
According to Elop, Symbian would receive updates until 2016 and even beyond, and that Nokia is committed to provide all of the necessary support for users in the next years.
Customer services, applications for Symbian, specific services for the mobile operating system, they would all be there from Nokia, he continued.
Of course, the platform would still fall into oblivion into the end, but, for the time being, Symbian fans can rest assured that Nokia would be there for them.
Here's what Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop stated on the matter (via All About Symbian) So we are in a period where the investment in Symbian absolutely continues.
Even as we go through a transition to our primary smartphone platform, Windows Phone, you will see that continued investment and I know there have been questions about how long does that continue and we've now been very clear about that - that software updates to Symbian devices are expected until at least 2016.
So there's a long history still to be paved for Symbian in the future.
You can have a look at the video embedded below to learn a few more details on what he stated in the aforementioned interview.
Unfortunately, no other details on Nokia's plans for Symbian were unveiled, and we do not know for how long would the company plan on releasing new devices powered by it, nor how long would the actual support for devices powered by it would be there for users.
Given the fact that Nokia expects for a number of over 150 million Symbian devices to be sold in the next few years, we might expect for it to commit to supporting users for a little longer, that's for sure.