This downfall of Symbian has to be blamed on Google’s Android. Android is given more publicity than anything else. Whatever be the fact, Android is setting its stage. Symbian is made the Operating system for Nokia only. But all the other leading mobile phone are now providing phone with Android operating system in them.
Apart from developers android is getting support from mobile handset manufacturers. It’s like they are waiting for the successor in the industry to take on. Also Google is providing secure and user’s friendly brand to its customers. Here is where Symbian fails.
Symbian and android has not given developers any open community or open code. So the main difference comes in the brand. Even though Symbian has been in the market for decades and it is sad to say it hasn’t got enough market value like android.
Symbian has weak user interface. When developing a software product source code, market value all should be foreseen .This is where android has made its foundation. It is a counter blast for Nokia that it could not keep its name in market like android now. It is trying its best compete with brands like iPhone and Blackberry .So there should be a good effort from company side to keep its market value up. Nokia N8 is such a model that can compete with others.
But it took a long time for Nokia N8 to be released in the market after its announcement. It was the first phone to have latest Symbian 3 Operating system. Even then its demand has decreased with the delay in release. The world then started to think about new feature other than this. Review about Nokia N8 says that it has got good hardware but bad software. Good camera, aesthetics and durability are shown as the exceptional features of the phone. This new Symbian OS has overcome it errors than the previous version. But if it needs to be competent with the iPhone they have to develop products than of now.
Because of these problems the Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elope has said they will switch to Windows Phone 7 operating system. So Symbian will only be a history then.
When talking about Symbian the users think about its difficulty in implementation. The hang applications, rebooting at uneven times, pop up message shown when opening message box are only a few problem out of a large set.
But only when smart phone were introduced we came about these problems. Symbian was not introduced for these phones. We much think about what Symbian has given us. Without giving much amount Symbian gave the latest and advanced feel in technology to common people through low end phones. There are a number of people who cannot afford the high end ones. Only Symbian was there for their need.
So we can call Symbian as a real phone operating system. Nokia has said to cooperate with Microsoft recently. So Windows Phone 7 will be the future operating system in Nokia phones .This will take at least two years to completely change to its new one. Also last year’s market review show that the demand for Symbian phones has not been affected so much.
In between the switching to its new operating system Nokia said, it will try to support Symbian market. But such a move is said to affect the company’s growth.
Smartphone Future
Symbian Anna operating system is the latest Symbian version from Nokia. Modified user interface, fast browser, search through Ovi map are said to be its main features. This shows that even though switching to Windows Phone 7 operating system, Nokia is concerned with Symbian. In the next five years drastic changes are said to takes place in smart phone market. We can see this by looking at history of last five years. Google has not only introduced a new operating system, Android, but its changed the concept of using phone. Accelerometer, touch screen, GPS based location tracking etc has come to phones. All these happened within just two to three years.
Wireless HDMI, built-in projector, figure print scanner,3D etc are expected to be in smart phone in future. Also phones are said replace computer in future. In Japan Docomo has already started such a move by giving Toshiba T-01A to its customers. Nokia itself has released a device calling N900.
Fully connected location sensitive devices are next. It is the successor of Bluetooth connectivity in Business phones. Sending application through Wi-Fi to another smart phone is the concept here. Gaming is the next development area.Alive-4 in iPhone has already given hints that games become more graphical in future. Smart phones will revolutionize area of socialnetworking also.
