Nokia Is Expect to Stop Symbian Smartphone Shipments

Nokia is expect to finally stop production of its Symbian based smartphones this summer as the company completes its migration over to the Windows Phone operating system supplied by Microsoft.

The Nokia 808 PureView was the company's last Symbian smartphone.
The Financial Times, without citing sources reported that the company is not expected to issue any sort of notice about the final date, as it would still have units in the delivery chain waiting to be sold.
Nokia's Symbian shipments dropped to around half a million units in the first quarter of this year, as compared to 5.6 million of its WP based Lumia smartphones. The company shipped a total of 61.9 million mobile phones though.

Nokia told the FT that: "It took 22 months to get a Symbian phone out of the door. With Windows Phone, it is less than a year. We spend less time having to tinker with deep-lying code and more time on crafting elements of the experience that make a big difference,"
Kantar Worldpanel has estimated that Symbian held a European market share of about 1.8 percent in the three months to April, down from 8 percent a year ago. The OS, which was originally developed by Psion for its handheld computers, still accounts for about 2 percent of the Chinese market.
Nokia is not totally reliant on Windows Phone for its handsets software, as the company still uses its own in-house OS for more basic handsets.