According to an article in Financial Times Germany, they have a source saying that, Nokia is now done with their popular smart phone mobile OS, Symbian and is now looking forward to Maemo, a flavor of Linux, to be made available on most of its smart phones going ahead in future. You would be aware that Nokia has been using Maemo on its Internet tablets like the N800 and the N810. Also, the new Nokia Tablet, Nokia Rover, which is going to be unveiled at the Nokia World 2009, will be having the latest version of Maemo on it and is also capable of making phone calls unlike the previous Nokia tablets. So the Nokia Rover is the first Maemo based smart phone from Nokia and going forward you might see Maemo being used on more and more Nokia smart phones. The FT source said that Nokia thinks Symbian is unable to keep up with competition from Apple and RIM, which has forced Nokia to think about its future along with its smart phones. I guess this is just a speculation from some industry analyst given the fact that Nokia Rover would be launching soon. Symbian as a mobile OS has a string smart phone market share along with a huge developer base around the world and Nokia wont let that go so easily. It will take a lot of time for Nokia to leave Symbian and embrace Maemo fully for its smart phones.
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