In an open letter that was published a few days ago, Purnima Kochikar, head of developer relations at Nokia, assured the developers that Nokia intends to sell Smartphones running Symbian software even after the Finnish devices based on Windows Phone are released.
“We will be selling (Symbian) devices long after Windows Phone devices from Nokia have already started to appear,” Purnima Kochikar said in the letter.
As for the Nokia products that will operate on Microsoft OS, the first examples of them will appear only in 2012.
Let me remind you that in February Nokia and Microsoft announced the signing of a cooperation agreement, according to which the Finnish company chooses Windows Phone as the main operating system for its smartphones, and some people were concerned that Nokia will stop producing Symbians.
Unfortunately, Kochikar didn’t mention how long Nokia is going to continue producing Symbian-based devices, but analysts believe that the Finnish company will continue offering smartphones running Symbian during the next few years at least.
Kochikar also said that Nokia’s new smartphones will have better hardware characteristics. In particular, they will receive a 1 GHz processor, which is already good news. I guess you already know that at the moment, even the flagship products of Nokia (such as the N8 and E7) operate with processors with a frequency of 680 MHz, while the competitor companies started using much more productive solutions more than a year ago.
Kochikar also noted that the company has already adopted the line of Symbian-based products for 2011-2012. “Over the past weeks we have been evaluating our Symbian roadmap and now feel confident we will have a strong portfolio of new products during our transition period — i.e. 2011 and 2012,” Kochikar said.
