Symbian ends 2011 in style

Recently StatCounter, an online statistics tool published their analysis on the global smartphone users. The StatCounter tool is embedded on many websites which in turn tracks the browser and the operating System used. According to the statistics released, the Symbian Operating system tops the chart for the year 2011. The Symbian OS still dominates the market with over 31% of the smartphone market share. The iOS finishes second just above the android operating system.


The Symbian OS started 2011 just above the apple iOS at around 30%. The surge in the popularity of Symbian rose to around 34% during mid-June, where the iOS shows steady decline owing to constant competition and lawsuits. However, the Symbian OS saw a gradual decline halfway through 2011. The introduction of Symbian Anna brought back the stability to the Symbian Smartphones for which it is known. The hardware on the handsets and the stable operating systems saw Nokia win over many new fans. The last quarter saw the most growth in popularity of the Symbian. This was mainly due to the introduction of Symbian Belle(Currently Nokia Belle). The Nokia Belle boasted of an array of exciting new features. Naturally the new OS was made available to the existing devices which met the hardware requirement. Nokia Symbian ended the year 2011 with a strong 31% share still dominating the market.


2011 has been an excellent year for the Nokia fans with Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle both being launched. There was no doubt in the dominance of the Symbian OS, mainly due to its simple and lightweight design. Though the collaboration of Nokia and Microsoft has raised a few concerns regarding the fate of Symbian OS, we can confidently say after the statistics of 2011 Symbian is far from over. The year 2012 promises to be an exciting year for Symbian loyalists, with the Symbian Belle update being made available for Anna users.


Also 2012 marks the debut of two new operating systems the Symbian Carla and Symbian Donna. According to reports both the operating systems must be out by the second or third quarter of 2012. Let's hope they can claim many many accolades as their predecessors and help Symbian dominate the 2012 as well.       

Advantages of Nokia Symbian over other Operating Systems

Since the age of smartphones has begun,there's been a constant hassle over the best smartphone operating system. Let us consider the main criteria which denote an ideal Smartphone Operating System :

• Variety : There is a wide range of Nokia Smart Phones to chose from like Bar,Slide,Touch Screen models, QWERTY and Touch Screen with QWERTY models. All other Operating systems work on touch screen models or the QWERTY models(iOS,Android,Blackberry).

•  Navigation: Nokia Smart phones offer better navigation through A-GPS and the Ovi Maps application(pre-loaded with maps).  Voice guidance is another feature that doesn't come free in most phones.

• Battery life: No one can beat Nokia in terms of Battery life. Nokia offers the best battery life in case of smart phones. The main reason being the use of operating systems that sustain on lower usage of the processor.

•  Camera Quality: Camera quality of the Symbian phones is relatively better than other OS. Nokia is known for its picture quality in camera phones. The N8 when released gave Digital Camera's a run for their money.

• No Permanent Internet Connection: Nokia phones require the Internet only for short periods of time. Its not the case with other Operating systems. Their functionality is dependent on a permanent data connection and the traffic in terms of data of symbian phones is very minimal. 

• Multi-tasking: Multi tasking in Symbian is the simplest there exists in any smart phone.Every Symbian phone consists of a home key,which can be used to multi-task with ease. Other smartphones provide assisted multi-tasking by means of an external application or just suspend the other application and call it multitasking ( No offence iOS).

• PC and Ovi Synchronisation: Synchronization of data is much more simple in Symbian Smart phones. It can be done via an Ovi account. Also PC synchronization of various personal information is much less complex in Nokia Phones courtesy the Ovi Suite(Universal for all Nokia Phones).

• Audio and Video: The loudspeaker and the audio quality of Nokia Smartphones is the best in its class. The Symbian is known to support many video formats with subs without external software's to include other extensions 

• Apps: In the field of apps Nokia has a huge developer networks for Symbian phones. Its very simple to design apps for Nokia in any platform using the Qt framework. Also Nokia Apps are compatible within various platforms.

• Price : Nokia offers smartphones in various price ranges suited for customers in every price band. The customer has a variety of choices to chose from.