Andre Yoskowitz
27 May 2011 11:21
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has said this week that the company will continue to support phones running the Symbian OS until 2016.
Earlier this year, Nokia made a billion dollar pact with Microsoft to turn Windows Phone 7 into its primary smartphone OS, pretty much leaving Symbian for dead.
Says Elop:
We're in a period where the investment in Symbian absolutely continues.
Even as we go through a transition towards our primary smartphone platform, Windows Phone, you will see that continued investment. And I know there's been questions about--so 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.