Nokia has plans to upgrade for all three of its platforms. Despite the large demand of affordable smartphones, the S40 platform will go on,with touchscreens, dual-SIM and QWERTY keyboards, while Symbian and Maemo user get improved speed and multi-touch.
As for Series 40, there have been attempts to make an S40 handset with a QWERTY keyboard but that didn’t catch on. Touchscreens and dual-SIM phones is breaking new ground for Series 40.
These new and improved S40 devices will begin appearing in 2010 along with the new Symbian and Maemo devices. Nokia maintains that Symbian is their smartphone platform of choice, keeping Maemo to high-end “mobile computers”.
S40 is here to stay as well according to Nokia’s strategy – multiple platforms to cover all the market segments for mobile phones, instead of stretching one platform from the low end to the high end.
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