Sony Ericsson’s recent announcement that is dropping its backing of the Symbian operating system and it has already geared into opting for Google’s open-source Android operating system. As of late, the Google operating system Android is advancing by leaps and bounds in the smartphone industry. The Symbian OS on the other hand is well-known being Nokia’s official mobile operating system for smartphones and other mobile gadgets.
Sony Ericsson spokesman Aldo Liguori said in an interview with Bloomberg.com stated that, “We have no plans for the time being to develop any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system”. He also added that while they are discontinuing their support for the Symbian operating system, they will stay on as a member of the Symbian Foundation. However, he was already speaking along the lines of the Android being the exclusive (if not a very vital) part of the current Sony Ericsson mobile marketing plan starting today onwards. The following companies form part of the whole Symbian Foundation: AT&T, LG Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Samsung Electronics, Vodafone, Texas Instruments, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Nokia, and of course Sony Ericsson.
Microsoft, in support of the Symbian Foundation, announced that it is making the Silverlight technology available for the Symbian operating system after releasing a beta in March of this year. This marks the very first time Microsoft through its Silverlight technology is being used to support a non-Microsoft mobile gadget and this move may be paving the way for Silverlight’s support of other mobile devices in the near future.
Gartner, an IT research company boldly reported that the Android operating system is poised in taking second place in the mobile operating system field swinging past the iOS of Apple and Research in Motion before this year ends. Though Symbian would still command a huge chunk of the mobile operating system with more than forty percent of the market still in Nokia’s grasp (owing to the huge margin in the number of Nokia mobile phones in current circulation), the Android operating system is set to eat at the most eighteen percent of the whole market share. Nokia is still leading in the handset sales arena shipping a whopping more than a hundred million units only in the second quarter of this year.
Sales of smartphones shows a promising massive increase by almost twenty five percent next year and will continue to increase exponentially until 2014, according to the IDC research firm.
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