Samsung drops all Symbian support by the end of December

01 October, 2010
And when we say all, we really mean it. By the end of December Samsung will close its Symbian forums, developer site and will remove all Symbian-related documentation and data from its servers. Ouch!

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  • 03 Oct 2010

Anonymous, 03 Oct 2010Symbian is dead. Noones talking about it either. There are... moreThree big players? You do know that Symbian is the mobile OS with the largest marketshare right?

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    • Anonymous
    • p5%
    • 03 Oct 2010

    Anonymous, 02 Oct 2010This is a bad news for Nokia I think. As Samsung officially... morebad news for you, Nokia knew that. they put symbian open source and they developped app with qt easily to use on symbian and meego.

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      • slamet
      • PAq
      • 03 Oct 2010

      i never buy sumsung handphone it's suck. my u700 only can stand 1 year. the flip has 2 times broken. the paint has already peal. samsung so arogan not to use symbian any more. i think it's just want to make samsung get populer by that rumors. NEVER USE SAMSUNG HANDPHONE

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        • Anonymous
        • ne{
        • 03 Oct 2010

        Symbian is dead. Noones talking about it either.
        There are three big players - iOs, Android and Windows Mobile. Additionally I predict that Windows Mobile will disappear long-ranged as well.

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          • Eldamri
          • Kg%
          • 03 Oct 2010

          So S.E. and samsung will drop symbian..

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            • Anonymous
            • uWx
            • 02 Oct 2010

            SAMSUNG sucks! seriously. I bought i8910 HD six months back and from that day, I've been facing problem, as I was having problems with firmware, they released a new firmware year after they released the i8910. and now by stating that they will close everything relating symbian OS, it really has disappointed me and I'm never ever going to purchase any of samsung's shit.

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              • Anemone
              • wHr
              • 02 Oct 2010

              So be it! Symbian will still be alive anyways.

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                • pcuser
                • SnA
                • 02 Oct 2010

                [deleted post]I know it's for Symbian but Samsung always drops support of their devices too early for example: Omnia HD, Jet, etc.... . And my point was to sell my Galaxy S and get a more future supported device and never buy another Samsung product again because how they leave their customers behind.

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                  • premashis poddar
                  • wdQ
                  • 02 Oct 2010

                  you do something wrong...because symbian os is the one of best os in the world..many people don't know full use of symbian os and their softwares,it can change a simple mobile to a complex mobile.i am using symbian mobile during 5 years and compare with others..symbian os is best os....good bye samsung.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 8WC
                    • 02 Oct 2010

                    I will drop my Samsung wave due to the lake of support and continuous lies about what this phone does which in fact doesn.Is only on paper.Further more. . . not to speak about banning all voip applications, which every OS platform has it. Bada is not an OS!WAKE UP!

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                      • evo
                      • 0@f
                      • 02 Oct 2010

                      Alessandro, 02 Oct 2010Just another reason not to get a Samsung phone.Samsung just ditching a failed operation system. faylbian :)
                      which nokia had to do a 3-5 years ago....but they didnt...
                      and now you can see there failure

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3Tq
                        • 02 Oct 2010

                        Why are y'all bashing Samsung? It's a logical step from them.

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                          • dj
                          • IWa
                          • 02 Oct 2010

                          I think is too much to focus... too many os... maybe they want Bada to replace Symbian phones in the future.
                          SE... haha too danger man. They only left Android. Until now we didnt hear any news regarding WP7 running on SE phone. Unless they also have the same idea as Samsung..having their own OS lol...

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 39k
                            • 02 Oct 2010

                            BrianAW, 02 Oct 2010You gotto know between Symbian and symbian UIQ..thats not s... moreyou just said it yourself that they're both symbian so don't correct me
                            in 1998 Ericsson made 1st touchscreen smartphone which was also 1st symbian phone
                            so basically everybody follows SE's and Ericsson's trend of touchscreen smartphones
                            and UIQ is almost same as Symbian as with crack (no need for flashing) UIQ phones can play all S60 games

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                              • Anonymous
                              • xpJ
                              • 02 Oct 2010

                              Now they can focus on Bada, Android and WM7 to take out NOKIA and APPLE at same time.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • kx7
                                • 02 Oct 2010

                                Alessandro, 02 Oct 2010Just another reason not to get a Samsung phone.Exactly my thoughts. Samsung has absolutely horrible support for their products. They don't release things into the market as much as just dump them there and hope for the best. After the i8910, I am really put off from ever buying another Samsung device. I may try my luck with the Tab, but if they drop support on that or leave it in a half-working state then Samsung is history in my book.

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                                  • Pankaj
                                  • 2@t
                                  • 02 Oct 2010

                                  I knew this was coming. But They should've waited at least a year before announcing this.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • x%6
                                    • 02 Oct 2010

                                    This is a bad news for Nokia I think. As Samsung officially dumped Symbian and Sony Ericsson is also less interested in it. If all leave then Nokia only will be member of the Symbian foundation and that means less developers will be interested. Samsung still has no problem as they have got successful Android phones and recently licensed WP7, Sony Ericsson be careful as they are going Motorola way!

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                                      • xpJ
                                      • 02 Oct 2010

                                      Symbian is dead. There is no point in supporting it.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • fty
                                        • 02 Oct 2010

                                        This is the beginning of an end for Symbian. All those i400, i450, i550, i560, L870, G810, i8510 INNOV8, and i8910 OMNIA HD users will be very disappointed. They probably won't buy a Samsung/Symbian product again. After Nokia ruined (and is still ruining) Symbian OS, and Sony Ericsson left the party, the last thing we need is THIS.