From the time since Nokia has decided to partner with Windows, there
have been plenty of news regarding Symbian being on its death bed. A few
days ago,
Daily Mobile Forum too had indicated that Nokia is bidding
adieu to Symbian and will not be adding new features to this operating
system.
This information was based on the response to the developer's
suggestion for improvements in Symbian. The response went on to read,
"Thank you for your improvement ideas, thus Symbian is in maintenance
mode and no new features will be implement without extremely good reason
(business case). We have written down your ideas for future development
if there is a chance that new feature will be released."
However
now the company has backtracked from its original statement and cleared
the air by stating that the term 'Symbian being in maintenance mode',
was used in reference to the earlier versions of this operating system.
Nokia's
new reply reads as, "I would like to make a small correction to our
previous comments just to avoid potential misunderstandings. When we
were talking about maintenance mode we were actually referring to our
earlier Symbian release. We do have new feature development for PureView
808 product and we periodically evaluate what updates are needed to
attract the end user. Your comments will be re-evaluated in these cross
check points."
The new statement from Nokia does offer some relief
to the users of Nokia PureView 808 but raises a few questions as well.
The Finnish handset maker had rolled out the last 'major' (if you can
call it that) update way back in October 2012 in the form of 'Symbian
Belle Feature Pack 2'. The smartphones running on this version of the
operating system are Nokia 701, Nokia 700, Nokia 602 and Nokia PureView
808. However, the reply to the post refers only to Nokia PureView 808,
does that mean that there will be no new features available to the other
smartphones running on Symbian Belle Feature Pack 2.
Even in the
starting of January, Nokia had rolled out a performance update for just
its Nokia PureView 808 smartphone. The software version 113.010.1508 was
a heavy 420MB file that brought in performance improvements to this
41-megapixel monster.
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