Now it's official and we no longer have to depend on rumours. The Nokia N900 was launched today, a new type of a computer running Maemo 5 on Linux, featuring Mozilla browser, 1 GB apps memory, and designed for multitasking. The blogs have been speculating for some time already that Nokia would be replacing Symbian with Maemo as the preferred OS. Now would be a good time - once again - to kill those speculations.



Image: Nokia N900

Symbian is Nokia's platform of choice for smartphones. N900 comes from the world of PCs, and could be thought as a computer shrunk into a portable device, telephony capabilities added. Symbian devices, on the other hand, have their roots in mobile phones that have grown into smart and feature-rich portable devices. Symbian was designed for smartphones and is doing an excellent job in that category. Upcoming improvements with Qt  developer  opportunities and new UI stuff will make it even better.




Image: Nokia 5230


The new Nokia 5230 is a nice example of what Symbian can do. Nicely packaged music, multimedia and other services operated with a touch screen, available in reasonable prices for those hundreds of millions of people who wouldn't be spending several hundreds of euros on a mobile device. Symbian volumes are multifold compared to any other smartphones or mobile computers in the industry, in other words the consumers see its value proposition. With all of Ovi , Forum Nokia and Symbian Foundation efforts ongoing, it is also constantly improving on the developer promise.