Symbian History is over

In October of last year, Nokia sent to developers writing applications for Symbian, which refers to the transition of the OS in "maintenance mode." Then it was almost certain that this is the end for the famous mobile operating system, with a long history, but the Finnish company officially confirmed it only today.







Nokia official statement was brief and concise:

Nokia 808 PureView, the device shown our ability to visualize and entered the market in mid-2012, was the last device in the Nokia Symbian.

Despite the fact that the company managed to sell 2.2 million devices in the OS for the last quarter, the manufacturer decided to discontinue these communicators.

Symbian conducted its history since 1997, and at the peak of its popularity, in 2006, took more than 72% of the mobile market. Main competitors, which developed more rapidly, and have managed to take away market share Nokia offspring were BlackBerry OS, iOS and, more recently, Android OS. As of Q1 2012 for Symbian was less than 7%, which has been steadily declining. The last update to the OS, Belle FP2, was released in October last year. Goodbye, Symbian.