Japanese electronics manufacturer, Sharp and Fujitsu will release Symbian-based phones. Unmitigated number of phone models that excluded both these producers reached 11 phones.
The presence of 11 Symbian phones are expected to build again the triumph of middle Symbian hobbled by other platforms, such as IOS, Android, and Blackberry. Symbian itself, the plan will be taken over directly by Nokia in April 2011. Nokia will fully control the development direction of the Symbian platform.
Sharp and Fujitsu can be said to replace two mobile phone vendor who previously had stated attracted support from Symbian, namely Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Similarly, reported by Reuters.
Ben Wood, research director of a British consultancy CCS Insight, said the Japanese manufacturer has effectively created its own version of Symbian and will most likely continue to use it even if Nokia takes over it.
“On this basis, chances are they will continue to forge their own path. However, this approach does not provide economies of scale for Nokia as depicted by the Symbian Foundation,” said Wood.
Nokia does not receive direct benefits from the use of Symbian by other manufacturers. But at least Nokia would be helped by the expansion of the use of software which in turn increases a larger user base.