Engadget: Don't count the Symbian Foundation out just yet, because the European Commission has emerged like a knight in shining armor thanks to a €22 million public / private joint investment and a new consortium of some 24 organizations awkwardly called SYMBEOSE: "Symbian – the Embedded Operating System for Europe.
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular instant messaging service will officially stop working on the dated Nokia Symbian software and the BlackBerry OS after June 30.
well its nothing new for them to stop supporting older OSes.
it only makes way for them to improve the app for more recent devices.
Nokia started the dominant mobile business before Samsung and Apple were the big telecommunication industries in history. If we compare the stats of Nokia sales with Samsung sales in 2012, Nokia had sales of 83 million handsets in 2012 whereas Samsung has 92 million.
ZDNet- Nokia's Symbian and MeeGo app store entered a state of suspended animation yesterday, ahead of the store's total shutdown once it's in Microsoft's hands.
