Unsurprisingly, Nokia has rebuffed yesterday's speculation that the company was dropping the Symbian OS for Maemo, an open-source OS that could appear on Nokia Internet tablets and future smartphones.

"Nokia remains strongly committed to its current open OS software strategy for smartphones, which is based on the world leading Symbian software," said Joe Gallo, a Nokia spokesperson. "This provides a mature and consistent platform for rich mobile devices and application development."

The German edition of the Financial Times had quoted someone "close to Nokia" saying Symbian would be going the way of the dodo.

Post by Sean Ludwig