"They have to come up with something bold" because "Symbian continues to decline, " the person said.
The transition will take through 2012, but there will be Symbian support provided through 2016.
He says they have to make implementation flawless in the transition to Windows from Symbian.
Several executives, including the boss of the Symbian Foundation as of yesterday, have resigned.
The company dropped its Symbian platform in 2011 in favor of Microsoft Corp.
Last August, the companies signed a wide-ranging agreement to load Microsoft software on Nokia Symbian devices.
As a result, Nokia ended up dropping the Symbian platform in favor of Microsoft's Windows-based devices.
The new family of Symbian smartphones will include a completely updated Ovi Store experience.
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All are built on the new version of Symbian, the world's most popular smartphone platform.
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Symbian and Windows will be complementary in terms of their target audiences, Slater added.
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This machine powered up instantly, was lightweight, and ran an operating system related to Symbian.
Symbian sales were declining fast and Windows Phone had yet to pick up the slack.
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Obviously, Symbian phone softness was more than evident in July, when Triquint issued guidance.
Nokia's Symbian operating system, which powers the X7, is seen as cumbersome and outdated.
By 2014, Gartner predicts, the Android will tie with the Symbian OS in popularity.
Is there anything else besides Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian that I should be considering?
But of course, this suggestion, like my suggestion to dump Symbian, will fall on deaf ears.
He says by far the most common start phone OS in the world today is Symbian.
Option two, he says, would be to phase out Symbian, and shift resources to MeeGo.
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And that brings us to option 4: Adopt Windows Phone 7, and phase out Symbian.
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Nokia remains the largest vendor still supporting Symbian, along with Japanese vendors Fujitsu, Sharp, and Sony.
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No wonder Play.com best-seller lists do not even register the new Nokia Symbian phones.
Qualcomm wrote an operating environment known as BREW, Microsoft wrote Mobile Windows, and Nokia used Symbian.
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The only one that is open and mature is Symbian. 250 million phones using it.
It also sold 2.2 million Symbian smartphones and 9.3 million of its lower-priced Asha full-touch smartphones.
Representatives of MeeGo, Symbian and other programs within Nokia all struggled to make themselves heard.
As a rival open-source mobile operating system, Symbian was often compared to Android, sometimes unfavorably.
So, by month end, Symbian phones are dead in the water as far as Twitter is concerned.
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It will run the Symbian operating system, which is what many Sony Ericsson phones use as well.
With Matsushita on board, Symbian's parents now account for some 85% of the world's 175m-odd mobile phones.
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