MeeGo and Symbian on Nokia: No Room for Androids
According to Nokia, it is unlikely that they would be releasing an Android smart phone. While the phone maker is more than able to produce a smart phone that can handle Google’s open source operating system, they are already supporting two major operating systems that the Espoo based company is already heavily involved in.
In some ways, Nokia is pretty much like Apple in that same sense that they are an integral part of the development of the operating systems that they use. The only difference is that Apple only uses their proprietary OS: the iPhone OS.
On the other hand, Nokia has been a major supporter of the Symbian Foundation since the company’s earliest days (and in many ways, Nokia has a control over the development company as well). At the same time, Nokia is working on the MeeGo operating system –which they co-developed with Intel. The new OS is a combination of two proprietary mobile platforms: the Nokia Maemo and the Intel Moblin.
With the new upcoming Symbian^3 confirmed to be an open source operating system and the MeeGo also being open source in certain aspects (the Moblin is a Linux based OS after all), it would be a conflict of interest for Nokia to support the Android as well.
Unlike companies such as Samsung that is supporting several operating systems aside from their own proprietary OS, the Bada. Nokia considers their exclusivity to the Symbian and MeeGo platforms to be integral as part of their operations.
On the other hand, the company is already looking forward to the development of the Symbian^4 operating system. While the Symbian^3 has yet to be established –the Nokia N8 has yet to be made available (it is expected to launch sometime later this August), the current head of mobile solutions, Anssi Vanjoki, has confirmed that he is heavily considering the possibility of an N-series Symbian^4 smart phone.
