Nokia confuses developers with Symbian roadmap

Nokia confuses developers with Symbian roadmap GalleryBy Stewart MitchellPosted March 28, 2011 at 12:25 for Symbian developers are confused over the future of the platform after mixed messages from Nokia.
Nokia has issued a letter to the developers that describe the future of Symbian and Windows 7 Phone - and it seems the Finnish firm is a long way from being settled on a strategy.
Nokia has lately signed a pact with Microsoft, agreed to make Windows 7 Phone their preferred platform as it tried to stem the declining market share.
Symbian platform will keep getting the same handset planned for 2011 and 2012, which is what Nokia calls \its transition period \\ u0026quot;.
Symbian developers have since been left wondering what would become of their platform if Nokia pulled the plug, but an open letter to the Symbian community has raised as many questions as it answered.
That transition is defined later in the letter that the point where Nokia is looking to get as many customers on Windows 7 Phone as possible: Our intention is that when users come to the end of the natural life cycle of their Symbian device they want to make it change to Windows phone a Nokia device and then it would not be in our interest to weaken the Nokia smartphone experience.
In recent weeks we have been evaluating our Symbian roadmap and now feel that we should have a strong portfolio of new products in our transition period, 2011 and 2012, said vise president Purnima Kochikar in the letter.
Thurs support opera has also been very supportive of their commitment to help us to continue to sell and support Symbian devices, while we make the transition to Windows Phone.
But Nokia complicated matters by admitting that it did not want to put the feature phone market, Nokia said it sold a million phones a day, especially in emerging markets.
The lights are dimmingBut the writing is clearly written on the wall for Symbian - Nokia's plan is just to push it in markets where there are already strong (ie, China, Turkey, Russia, etc) and also while it is working to get Windows 7 Phone ready for areas where there is still inconsistent: why some markets will play a more significant role in selling the 150 million Symbian devices than others, and we will sell the devices long after Windows phone devices from Nokia has already begun to emerge in other markets .
The company says it will continue to support Symbian for the foreseeable future, especially considering that WP7 was not ready for all the emerging markets where it sells many of those phones.
That is why we can not give you the date on which Symbian is no longer supported.
I've been asked many times how long we will support the Symbian and many of you feel we have been avoiding the question, said Kochikar.
The full letter is published here if you want to read all about Nokia's Symbian and promises of the QT development platform - if you're a die-hard Symbian fan, we should warn you it will not fill you with hope, massive ...
There are no simple answers.
From the programmer.
Windows phone will not have any language and location of all abilities from day one.
Some markets will play a more significant role in selling Symbian devices than others, and we will sell units long after Windows phone devices from Nokia has already begun to emerge in other markets.
If that's your plan, and if you forget Europe so sorry, but I see no reason to continue development for Nokia devices anymore, posted miksuh.