n8 is cameraphone. n9 will have great camera, but i'm sure it will be worse than n8's, n9 will have other selling features.
they simply cannot forget symbian, because:
1) they are still relevant because of huge number of symbian users
2) meego is not ready and will some need time to mature
3) if there is problem with meego, or meego adoption and symbian is obsoleted, they are dead.
+ they need OS for low/mid-end and symbian is better for that than meego.
they still sell more smartphones than apple, android or rim - but not in usa.
nokia still sells more devices each quarter. so their share is getting smaller, but nowhere negative.
fascinating, how much is android open.
there is new version very close, but nobody knows what the new features will be, or even what version number it will have.
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