Everyone fears about Symbian OS when Nokia join hands with Microsoft and adopted Windows Phone 7 its primary platform for future smartphones. But according a news now Nokia confirmed that they will not going to kill Symbian but only shrinking for now. Symbian is still one of the most used mobile phone operating system in the world. Over 200 million phones running Symbian OS. This fear about shutting down of Symbian platform come in rise when the Finland based handset maker Nokia started to shifting its Symbian projects back to Finland from Bangalore. Nokia has around 2,500 of engineers at its Bangalore research center.
The partnership between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his ex-employee and current Nokia CEO Stephen Elop only let down the Symbian mobile app market place and its development but does not kill the Symbian any more.
According to Nokia’s Malaysian general manager, Vlasta Berka, in an interview to CNet, "Just because we're changing our direction in terms of smartphone platform, it doesn't mean that the existing platform is completely broken. Symbian is here to stay. Symbian will still be around, but it's just going to go somewhere around the corner."
The adoption of Windows Phone 7 by Nokia is only to stay in smartphone market to beat its great rivals like Samsung, Motorola, LG and Apple in smartphone categories
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