Petition to save Symbian - please sign

Is this just troll bait?

monkeyandweasel wrote:Is this just troll bait?

Plan is to send the petition to someone very senior in Nokia.

Signed. 😊

It's not dead yet - just that it will be gradually phased out.

I don't expect Nokia to revive it, but certainly wouldn't mind a major update or two, after PR2.0.

Its probably too late now.

After a big announcement like that there will be no saving symbian long term. All we can hope is that the promised updates arrive and on nokias track record that is not certain.

The N8 C7 and E7 ect are probably as good as they will ever get.

Just wanted to share my thoughts.

Symbian is not dead... We will witness his improvement in the next weeks and months.

New features, New User interface... some inovation points...and so on..
Also, who stated that will be dead.

As smartphones will evolve. I am positive and I beliebe that Symbian will be used as Franchise for the entry level phones....

So.. Don't look it like that...

Nokia is a strong Company and Just reinvented herself.

You will see...

TheSpecialBoy wrote:
Symbian is not dead... We will witness his improvement in the next weeks and months.

It isn't dead yet, but its days are numbered. Updates will still come, but not for long.

N/A wrote:It isn't dead yet, but its days are numbered. Updates will still come, but not for long.

Totally Disagree.

try to understand CEO words and read between speak and body language
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NokiaConversations&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_548075#p/u/8/IlO1a22UC7U

Anyhow: Symbian 3 will receive new UI ( at least3 or 4) and alot of features & improvements and will transit the new OS the new version of Windows OS.

Mego will be the future alternative.. the market ain't ready yet for the MeGo but this process of Symbian will help.

The strategy looks good and we will have to wait the confirmation of the results.

We all will be surprised.

The writings on the wall for symbian. Nokia is currently saying it will support symbian for the next few years, It wants to sell 150m more devices.

This is because it has no windows phones ready and will take months to bring something to market. It can't get by with no new products before then

Also there will no doubt be some symbian products already developed and ready to go. It will want to get them out and sold asap.

This is totally different from continued support. They are trying to limit the damage they did last friday because they shot themselves in the foot.

For me am happy with my symbian device as it is now. Am not expecting a huge amount more developement down this road. It works now and its as good as its gonna get

Updated words for the petition:

"The undersigned agree to keep buying the wonderful Symbian OS based products you make. We appreciate the ground breaking products you have made and support your efforts to develop well engineered Smart Phones and devices. You have our full support in these difficult times. We firmly believe that Symbian has a promising future and we will help you however we can to sustain a continued development base for Symbian."

Should be updated soon.

Please post the petition link to other forums, thanks.

Idiotic idea. Symbian is about to become extinct. Please stop wasting time.

Arthur wrote:Idiotic idea. Symbian is about to become extinct. Please stop wasting time.

Thank you for your view, you try telling that to 6000 Symbian developers/engineers who have to suffer because of poor Nokia management. Many will lose thier jobs. but you and people like you don't care.

It doesn't look like Symbian is being abandoned. Just because Nokia say they are adopting Windows doesn't mean that it's given up.

The way I see it, Symbian's future is undecided. It's an evolving OS, which, in it's current form version 3, is still very new. A new UI and Browser, depending on how good it is, could be the turning point.

It's not even outdated. It's just not conforming to the simple icon based model that the likes of iOS and Android are using. It could quite easy adopt the same look and feel. The videos of the PR2.0 update do seem to suggest this could be a step forward towards rivalling other OS.

In my opinion, the ease of use of iOS has been partially copied by both Android and Windows Mobile. It's so simple for the developers to simply do the same with Symbian.

JohnnyN wrote:It doesn't look like Symbian is being abandoned. Just because Nokia say they are adopting Windows doesn't mean that it's given up.

The way I see it, Symbian's future is undecided.

Nope. It has been decided. Nokia has decided that they will phase out Symbian as their smartphone platform in favour of Windows Phone 7 and later.

Nokia will still do some updates/enhancements to Symbian, mainly for the few Symbian models they still have in the pipeline, but their true focus is now on Windows Phone 7 as far as smartphones go.

They're also scaling down their other high-end smartphone platform work around evolving the Linux based maemo to the joint-effort with Intel known as MeeGo.

Nokia will also continue with their proprietary "featurephone" platform, Series 40, which forms the majority of their phone sales and revenue.

JohnnyN wrote:It doesn't look like Symbian is being abandoned. Just because Nokia say they are adopting Windows doesn't mean that it's given up.

Nokia are keeping S40 but Symbian development will stop by 2014. Such a daft situation, why not drop S40 and continue Symbian. The only reason Nokia is to stop Symbian is because this is the condition that M$ has placed on Nokia; this is also why MeeGo development will stop. These decisions are designed to wipe-out Nokia.

jah wrote:Nokia are keeping S40 but Symbian development will stop by 2014. Such a daft situation, why not drop S40 and continue Symbian. The only reason Nokia is to stop Symbian is because this is the condition that M$ has placed on Nokia; this is also why MeeGo development will stop. These decisions are designed to wipe-out Nokia.

A revenge at Symbian. More importantly Nokia has given up the strategic position of driver seat of a total media delivery company. Without its own OS it has no control over the pipes anymore.

We have 240 signatues, come one we need a few more 😊

jah wrote:Nokia are keeping S40 but Symbian development will stop by 2014. Such a daft situation, why not drop S40 and continue Symbian. The only reason Nokia is to stop Symbian is because this is the condition that M$ has placed on Nokia; this is also why MeeGo development will stop. These decisions are designed to wipe-out Nokia.

WP7 is a pig with lipstick.
Symbian is a gazelle which for a long time was in a straight-jacket (S60).

M$ is still worried like hell about the Symbian/Qt combo.

Hence making sure Symbian is truly dead is their desire. The Elopement guards M$' interests first, not Nokia's.

jah wrote:We have 240 signatues, come one we need a few more 😊

Added my petition signature using my n8.
Let the Nokia beta lab take over the UI team and quickly release the latest optimized QT api and the Symbian realtime OS will shine.

jah wrote:Thank you for your view, you try telling that to 6000 Symbian developers/engineers who have to suffer because of poor Nokia management. Many will lose thier jobs. but you and people like you don't care.

Who cares? That's life.

Symbian was driving Nokia to its' grave and they made a business decision. Live with it and please stop acting like a child whose toys are being taken away.

Arthur wrote:Who cares? That's life.

Symbian was driving Nokia to its' grave and they made a business decision.

Live with it and please stop acting like a child whose toys are being taken away.

samson432 wrote:There are a lot of people who cares. Symbian phones are relied upon daily in all sort of place. For example, my company use SIP calls on Nokia phones to replace our internal digital PABX because Symbian SIP calls are totally integrated with normal cell calls on their phone. No other mobile OS comes close. As I travel to other countries, OVI maps works even in places where there is no network. Try roaming that with Google maps. Not everyone lives and operate in just ONE country.

It is the other way round. Nokia management has been putting stray jacket on Symbian since 5 years ago and suffocating Symbian to its grave. Too little RAM and nand flash and too many unnecessary phone models and therefore unnecessary customization. Cancellation of good and pioneer projects.

Toys ??? A true realtime OS and true multi-task and you call it a toy? Not only are they green phones, but Symbian phones always are more battery friendly therefore more reliable and trust worthy in excursions.
Keep your toys and stop labelling Symbian toys! In fact this is the exact problem of Symbian now: it is not being viewed as a toy so the younger generation are not keen to try it.

Great, thank you for your perspective. Now allow me to give mine: in my line of work I deal with a lot of international corporations (as well as smaller companies) mostly in Europe, Canada and Australia. I am yet to see one, I repeat: ONE company that uses a Symbian phone in a business enviroment.

You speak of SIP calling. What I do see is some companies using Skype for long distance calling and video conferencing and to be honest Skype integration on a Symbian phone is a joke from what I can recall.

You also peak of Symbian having great battery life. That's another myth. I think we can all agree that majority of smartphones today have to be charged every 1 or 2 or whatever days. I remember having to charge my E90/E71/N95/N97 every day. I don't care what Nokia specification sheet says.

I could go on and on but what for? What I'm trying to say is that you are in minority when it comes to defending Symbian. Nokia made a business decision to move on to WP and any effort to save Symbian is in my opinion a colossal waste of time.

I'm afraid I will not be signing this petition. :icon13:

If there's a petition to have Nokia make Android phones, I'll sign that. :icon14: