FT Outs Nokias Intention to Stop Shipping Symbian this Summer
- Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
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Although there is no word from Nokia itself, the Financial Times is reporting, without naming a source, that the manufacturer will stop shipping Symbian handsets this summer.
Nokia announced more than two years ago that it was dropping the operating system for smartphones to focus on its partnership with Microsoft and its Windows platform. The latest Nokia Lumia 925, running on Windows Phone 8, went on sale in the UK today.
Symbian is still the third largest OS in the world and Nokia was expected to provide support to these handsets until 2016, but gaps are starting to appear in its services; Nokia closed its own Symbian site at the end of 2012. 
Commentators have considered what Nokia will do if the Windows platform fails to gain a foothold. It does of course still sell feature phones, and now lower-end smartphones like the Asha 501, running the Series 40 OS.
The FT points out that the company isn’t keen to announce a shipping cut-off as it still has more handsets to sell.
