The Symbian side of Nokia World

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Steve has put together a great overview of Nokia World from the point of view of Symbian. Yes the big news, the headlines, and the punditry went to the Windows Phone range of Lumia devices, and the long term strategy of emerging markets got some well deserved keynote time, but what about Symbian?

Elsewhere at Nokia World, there was plenty of Symbian if you looked, in amongst the higher profile Windows Phone handsets. Not least because of the sheer number of attendees with N8s and E7s, plus all the Nokia staffers equipped with C701s, reading the NFC tags on each attendee’s name badge…. remember that NFC has yet to make it to the brave new world of Windows Phone!

In addition, everyone I talked to seemed to be bowled over by Symbian Belle – it seems the tide of popular opinion has turned. With Belle becoming available and with Symbian now perceived to be the ‘underdog’, it has apparently now become acceptable again to say positive things about the OS.

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