Symbian and MeeGo axed in UK and US

Symbian is officially dead, in North America and the UK at least. Here lies a mobile OS which paved the way for the smartphones of today, now destined to be remembered as another missed opportunity in a line of failures from Nokia.

Nokia’s final Symbian phone was the Astound, which had the misfortune of launching directly after the announcement of the company’s adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile OS. Thanks to the upcoming closure of its US Symbian division, the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 will also not be making its way to America, or according to breaking news, the UK more or less guaranteeing its rapid demise as a force in the smartphone market. This first and last MeeGo mobile phone was announced in Singapose in June, but its exact shipping date internationally is unclear.

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