Competitions and Alternatives: Possible Ending
In February 2011, Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate Windows Phone 7 as their Primary OS, leaving further Symbian development in question. As a part of this plan, Nokia announced on 29 April 2011, to transfer symbian activities to Accenture along with 3000 employees. Timelines for transitions are still not clear. For other alternatives to Symbian, see Symbian.
For historical alternative user interfaces for Symbian (UIQ, series 80, series 90), see history of Symbian.
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