Nokia Announces That It Will Support The Symbian OS Until 2014

Nokia is not going to abandon its legacy Symbian mobile operating system anytime soon, or at least not till 2014, the company revealed.

Chris Carr, the managing director of Nokia Australia said that due to contractual obligations the company will continue supporting Symbian phones currently on the market until two years after their launch date. He also said that Nokia will continue with the production of its new Symbian phones at least until 2012.

"There is still a lot of ongoing development with Symbian, the two will co-exist. We have invested a lot of money in Symbian," said Carr. "Its not unusual in the industry to have multiple OS strategies," he continued, according to reporters in Australia.