Nokia to push Symbian low-end machine

Xinhua News (reporter Zhao) yesterday, Nokia in Singapore connection 2011 Congress released the Meego system of the first mobile phone N9, while the Asian market also launched 3 Symbian platform Low-cost mobile phones. In his first big speech to the Asian market, Nokia CEO Elop said 90% of the world's people did not or could not afford a smartphone, creating an opportunity. Nokia announced at the conference that next month Nokia will upgrade its Symbian platform to launch Symbian Ann Software. In the next 12 months, will also launch 10 Symbian system smartphone.　　It is reported that low-end mobile phones accounted for the Nokia mobile phone shipments last year 78%.　　Luribin, an international analyst at Analysys, said the new S40 platform's three touchscreen phones, which used 1GHz of processors and priced at around 600 yuan, had been targeted by Nokia as a "market-damaging" product.　　But the industry commented yesterday that with the popularity of the thousand-dollar Android smartphone, the 3 S40 handsets are at best limited to the low-end market. Before the conference, Nokia was expected to issue an Asian strategy to stop the company's declining market share in Asia. Last year, Nokia's share of the Chinese market fell from 31.5% in 2009 to 20.4%, according to Gartner, and Nokia's market share fell from 48.9% to 30.2% in the Indian market over a year.