UPDATED · News · 19 Nov 2009 · MTW Editorial Team
Well it looks like it’s now sort-of official. According to Jean-Philippe Illarine, Marketing Director at Samsung Mobile France, the South-Korea giant is no longer going to produce Symbian based phones. When asked about the future roadmap:
« aucun terminal Symbian à date dans la liste des prochains smartphones à venir »
« Notre roadmap de produits pour le premier trimestre 2010 ne comporte pas de smartphone Symbian »
There are no Symbian device in Samsung’s Q1/Q2 2010 roadmap so far.
There are 3 Android devices planned for an early 2010 (February) release thought.
When asked if Samsung was going to leave the Symbian Foudation, he answered that it’s to earl to say and that theses kind of decision are made at the Korean HQ.
Source: Mobinaute
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