Nokia plans to speed up Symbian development Q3 support Multi-Touch

February 3 News, Nokia Taiwan Branch general manager Hubeltian said today that the company will speed up the Symbian platform development, plans to release the third quarter of this year to support multi-touch functionality of Symbian 3, the end of this year or early next year, the release of Symbian 4. According to foreign media reports, industry sources said Symbian 4 will be based on Trolltech developed QT cross-platform Application Development framework. Nokia bought Trolltech in June 2008.　　QT will allow software developers to develop applications that support both Symbian and Maemo platforms, say the source.　　Hubeltian said Nokia will continue to produce mobile computing devices using Maemo platforms, smartphones using Symbian S60 and ordinary handsets using the Symbian S40 platform, in which Symbian S60 handset prices will be very competitive this year. According to people familiar with the Nokia Product Development program, the Symbian S60 smartphone will account for about 10% of all Nokia handset sales by 2011 55%,symbian S40 handsets will account for the 35%,maemo product.　　Nokia also plans to release products using the Maemo 6 platform in the second half of this year. Nokia has launched a E72 commercial smartphone in the Taiwan market.　　E72 supports a variety of e-mail services, such as Ovi Mail, Yahoo Mail, Windows Live hotmail, and Gmail. Nokia sold 6.1 million e-series handsets and 4.6 million N-series handsets in the fourth quarter of last year.　　Last year, e-series and N-series mobile phone sales have reached 18 million units. Author: Liu Yanqing