Nathan Eagle's Forum Nokia Blog - Android / Symbian Merger Predicted

GerryG

This will be a monster collaboration and definitely will benefit the mobile community!
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emil300

A combination of the Android and Symbian efforts would be good for the industry, good for Google and good for Symbian
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Android / Symbian is a great feature I must admit!
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Not only well managed event is, but well designed too. I like this demo booth much!
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harry.potter

Till now, more than three thousands Nokia 5800 have already been sold. And it's out of stock now. (As I said, it's for one who reserved for it only.) Wow! This is only the first day. They will be available for general users in next few days.
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harry.potter

very nice phone looks good, but similar with iphone. Which much better phojne the 5800 of nokia or iphone of mac. Will it works long since it a touch phone?
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Can someoneshow me a screenshot of Android OS?

Damavik

I think rumors are overestimated grossly. Really, it's more actual just to integrate a set of Google (search, maps etc) services into Symbian OS low levels. Nothing else.

Rumour?

tote_b5

The "other" side is also represented here:
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/07/no_plans_to_merge_symbian_with_android.htm
and here
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/26/nokia-and-google-rebuff-claims-of-symbian-android-merger.html

But I agree that it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Reality factor?

natecow

Here is a quote from the Symbian CEO about their willingness to collaborate with Google on the operating system. Will be interesting to see how this progresses.
http://www.arcchart.com/blueprint/show.asp?id=493

Reality factor?

tote_b5

Hi Nathan,

You've been silent for such a long time, it's great to see you posting again. Welcome back! :)

As to your question, I wonder what is the reality of this move. I have some comments, please see below.

First, Android platform is based on Linux, whereas Symbian is based on ... err, Symbian. Two, totally different systems, at least they both have their own peculiarities. How could they merge? I think only by one giving up itself and yielding to the other (e.g. Android would throw Linux away and build the rest of the stuff on Symbian). It would be technically VERY challenging.

As to carriers demanding their own custom user experience, it will never disappear. They will insist on branding no matter developers and platform providers think about it.

I disagree with another statement of the article, too, namely that the "downside is minimal". As this step would require huge effort both at technical and management level, the probability of that something would go wrong is very high. Not impossible, though, and eventually it might be worth the effort. However, it'd be very risky.

Finally, a question: what's wrong with competition? I can imagine, though, that what Google is really interested in is not a new open-source mobile platform per se, but a means to deliver their ads. So why not change? :)