The Nokia N8 has only just been confirmed as heading to Vodafone but new talk from the Far East suggests it might not be the first Symbian ^3 phone out of the gate. After waiting so patiently for the Nokia N8 to emerge, could we really see another phone stealing its thunder?
Since we got hold of it for our Nokia N8 photos and hearing that it’ll be headed to Vodafone imminently, we were pretty certain that the Nokia N8 would be the first Symbian ^3 phone. But Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation has suggested otherwise.
The Symbian supremo says that although Nokia has been suggesting that the OS is not quite ready yet, it is in fact on the cusp of shipping. He described the Symbian ^3 OS code as “almost completely mature”. And it’s already in the hands of an Asian manufacturer which plans to put out its phone imminently.
With Nokia N8 preorders reportedly planned in July and the phone itself apparently set to arrive in time for Nokia World in September, that would mean we’d have to see this mystery Symbian ^3 phone sometime next month. But with no other details who knows whether it will be able to match the 12MP camera and AMOLED screen offered up by the Nokia N8.
Do you think Symbian ^3 will deliver a batch of brilliant phones? Or are you all in for Android or iPhone 4.0 now?
Out TBC | TBC | Nokia (via Nok Nok)
