Most tech experts would tell you: that is no longer fit to be a question. Instead, people should consider it as a fact. While we are initially inclined to agree, there is something that many tend to forget about the mobile phone market: despite the fact that the Apple iPhone sold over 1.7 million units and the Samsung Wave has just hit a cool million, there are still more people using basic handsets that rely on the older Symbian operating systems (S40 devices are still very much alive).

But yes, there is no doubt that when faced with the Google Android, the Apple iOS and the upcoming Windows Phone 7, the Symbian Foundation needs to rethink their strategy and approach. As it stands, even the Samsung Bada might even surpass the archaic operating system.

But if the initial looks and demonstrations of the upcoming Nokia N8 are to be used as a basis, it seems that the Symbian Foundation already knows of the dire predicament that it is in. And if the new Symbian^3 OS for the next N-series handset is not screaming social integration, nothing else is.

The current market stand regarding the Symbian Foundation (and their platform) is that it is a sinking ship; they are still afloat now, but the doom is inevitable. For those with Symbian however, this is going to be a major time of change, for it the company fails to come out with something new, then they just not might make it to the development of the Symbian^4 OS.

Nokia’s new head of Mobile Solutions, Anssi, offers a different perspective; the man has already tried out the upcoming N8 and he believe that both the device and the OS has plenty of surprises for users – but with most of the smart phone community anything but impressed with the S60 OS, that is a pretty big claim to live up to.

Tags: apple-ios-4, google-android, Nokia, Symbian, Symbian 3, Symbian-4, Windows-Phone-7

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