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Nokia to take charge of Symbian platform development
It seems that after the hefty $31 million donation, not all is fine at the Symbian camp. The Symbian Foundation recently announced that starting next spring, it will no longer focus on platform development but instead it will license software and other intellectual property. This puts the Symbian platform back into the hands of Nokia, the company who purchased Symbian back in 2008 and set up the Symbian Foundation to aid the development of Symbian. With the Symbian losing support and just getting trumped by their competition lately, things haven’t been smooth sailing. But Nokia still strongly believes in the operating system and is in it all the way until the end. Nokia’s senior vice president of smartphones, Jo Harlow, said the company’s plans have not changed. “Do not confuse the end of the Foundation with the end of the Symbian platform,” she wrote. “The Foundation has been very important in steering the platform through increasingly challenging waters, but the Foundation and the platform are not the same.” With Nokia’s implementation of Qt to make development better and their apps compatible with future versions of their operating system, it looks like Nokia are really commited to making Symbian work. What do you think about the future of Symbian?
Now here is an interesting leaked render of what is allegedly known as the Nokia C1, which is supposed to be the next smartphone which will feature the Nokia logo – never mind the fact that the Finnish company had already sold its smartphone business to Microsoft some time back. Well, the most interesting aspect about this leaked render would be the fact that it sports an Android operating system on the foreground, while another model hiding behind it looks as though it runs on Windows 10 Mobile.
Does this mean that we will have to face not one, but two variants of the same device? Only time will be able to tell, but for the moment, it will be an agonizing wait until 2016 as that is when the alleged Nokia C1 smartphone will launch then.
So, you happen to be rocking to one of the older Lumia handsets from Nokia, and would love to check out what all the hoo-haa is about concerning Windows 10 Mobile. If you happen to live in Poland, then here is a spot of good news for you to kick start your week – the Windows 10 Mobile update will be heading to the likes of the Lumia 630, 635, 640, 735, and 830 this coming December 14, whereas those who happen to be making use of the Lumia 520, 532, 625, 720, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, and 1320, will have to wait until February 1st next year.
Again, bear in mind that the Windows 10 Mobile update will only affect those smartphones which were purchased from Orange in Poland, so if you happen to own any of the above mentioned devices but from different people, then you would have to give the updates a miss.
A quick look at the calendar shows that we are still in March – early March, in fact, and April is still some ways of. Still, this has not stopped the fact that an alleged leak of a Nokia 1100 has been benchmarked, and in that particular benchmark, it revealed that the Nokia 1100 would sport Android 5.0 Lollipop as the mobile operating system version of choice – how cool would that be if it were to be true?
Other hardware specifications in the alleged leaked benchmark sheet point to a quad-core MT6582 processor which has been clocked at 1.3GHz, a 720p resolution display, and most probably 512MB RAM. We would take this bit of information with more than just a pinch of salt – perhaps and entire tablespoonful.