Samsung Drops Developer Support for Symbian

From PC World: Samsung is dropping support for Symbian from its Mobile Innovator developer support program, it said in a letter sent out on Thursday.

All Symbian developer activities at Mobile Innovator will end by Dec. 31, according to the letter.

Officially, Samsung has long maintained that it has a multi-platform strategy that includes Symbian, but the company hasn't announced a Symbian-based smartphone since February last year.

Instead, the world's second largest phone maker has chosen to push smartphones based on its own platform, Bada, as well as Android and Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7.

Samsung is a very opportunistic company when it comes operating systems, according to Carolina Milanesi , research vice president at Gartner: if a big operator such as Vodafone asked the company to manufacture a Symbian-based smartphone it likely would, she said.

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