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Sony Ericsson Leaving Symbian

Sep 24, 2010, 2:38 PM by Philip Berne

Sony Ericsson has announced that it has no plans to develop any new products using the Symbian Foundation operating system, according to Bloomberg. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz, recently launched on AT&T, is a Symbian phone, and Sony Ericsson used to pioneer a Symbian interface design, UIQ, that competed with Nokia's S60 interface. Sony Ericsson has not left its position on the Symbian Foundation. Symbian remains the world's biggest-selling smartphone system with a declining 41.2 percent share of the market, mostly on the strength of Nokia's sales leadership. Sony Ericsson also produces smartphones that use Google's Android, and the company has created Windows Mobile smartphones in the past.

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Omagus

Sep 24, 2010, 5:29 PM

1) Can't really blame Sony Ericsson. Nokia does take a long time to roll out Symbian updates. You have to think that SE is tired of putting an effort into an OS where the ROI takes so long to show.

2) Does this really hurt Symbian all that much? Sure, SE has a name presence but how much of a factor does it actually have in the market? Its market share is probably less than 5%. And on top of that, SE is kinda like that person your mom warned you not to date. It will always go after the latest flavor of the month: Symbian UIQ to Windows and now Android. Hasn't exactly shown stability here.

T Bone

It's true that Sony does seem to change around a lot, but I think that's only because they have never really had any meaningful success in the smartphone market.....

Sony is a big company which manufactures tons of consumer electronics products, i...
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Mr. Scary

Sep 26, 2010, 4:02 AM

So who gets custody of the kids?

It's always the children who suffer in these situations...

imapolymorph

Sep 24, 2010, 11:36 PM

about freakin time now start rocken that ELSE platform -nt

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