[skyee]

Hi all,

I wanted to share the latest Nokia statement about Symbian support with you as well.

‘Nokia will provide software support for Symbian until at least 2016.  In the short term that means delivering a series of updates, starting with Symbian Anna and followed by further future updates, including a second update in 2H 2011.  These will bring exciting new features to the Symbian user experience including a complete visual refresh and improvements in the browser and text input.  Beyond that Nokia’s commitment means maintenance of the software alongside customer care and other services so that anyone buying a Symbian-based Nokia smartphone can be confident they will be supported for the lifecycle of the product.  We predict that will mean providing software support until at least 2016.’

BR,

yvonne

[donofworld]

in next 5 years
should i assume software updates for my c7 until end of 2012 atleast?

[chanchan05]

2012 at least i would probably think....usually updates go for as much as 2 years...

[holybone202]

starting with the anna? What about ^1 phones.... Skyee you said n97 mini wud recieve an update Q2, and that you guys were currently working on the mini. I'm quoting you.... Not to mention what was mentioned about chat 2.5... We are still waiting and i dont see 5th edition phones included in what you've posted above.. Please clarify for us n97/n97 mini users..

[imlite]

Yes the link to the Elop interview is here:

Stephen Elop Interview

But, taking the other information, that has been released, into consideration all it means is that the consulting company which is taking over Symbian software services will offer bug fixes and support the Ovi store and services until 2016. A 5 year contract with Nokia for Ovi and Symbian software support.

Now, what of advancing  Symbian with releases such as Anna?, I think, if we ever do see futher major updates to Symbian  they will be the last ending by next year as the first WP7 phones are released.

I suppose it will be like MS still supporting XP with bug fix and security updates even though they now have all there focus on Windows 7.

[skyee]

Hi,

as we're not doing any official release timings announcements I can't give you anything on Symbian 3.2 & 5.0 phones yet but there will be something coming as mentioned earlier. We're working on update for several models there.

BR,

yvonne

[ApurvGupta]

Hi skyee, Great to see you helping us users out here and answering to the questions put up by them. But we all users are really eagerly waiting for symbian Anna. Please tell us - Can we expect Symbian Anna really really soon or we have to wait a while?

[markfirst]

could we have an estimated date (Q2 or Q3) for elease of update for S^3 and S60v5?