Nokia to Make Symbian-based Tablets & Netbooks in the Following Years

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Some really surprising news comes all the way from the Symbian Foundation. It seems that chief executive Lee Williams has almost confirmed Symbian tablets and netbooks plans in a recent interview. Without revealing actual launch dates or product names he did say that “it’s very likely that, in the next year or two,” such devices will be created.

Are you surprised? Happy? Well whatever you’re feeling right now you’ll have to wait a long while until Nokia, or other manufacturers for that matter, are ready to offer us a dependable tablet or notebook running Symbian.

What Nokia must do for now is come up with a new Symbian OS version capable to resurrect their smartphone business. Current Nokia smartphones aren’t bad, don’t get me wrong, but the possibilities of current Symbian versions seem finite. We want more, don’t we?

Nokia has already confirmed that Symbian v3 and v4 are coming out later this year while Symbian v2 will be entirely skipped. Therefore the first smartphones running Symbian v3 are going to arrive probably before the holidays while Symbian v4 devices will be available early next year.

Symbian v4 might be one of the candidate OS for future Nokia netbooks and tablets as it’s supposed to “introduce a whole new graphical approach for the UI.” Nine different types of displays are going to be supported which doesn’t sound that bad, does it.

But it’s not only looks and appearances that we’re looking for in Symbian future versions. We also want them to be fast, support multitasking, get us where we need to be easier than any of its predecessors, and add a little magic on top of everything. Is that too much to ask from a mobile platform?

Hopefully Nokia, and other manufacturers, will find a way to launch their own tablets next year. Not because we need tablets and notebooks running Symbian OS but because some competition in these particular fields wouldn’t hurt. And if Nokia manages to do that with their proprietary OS it will also mean that their future Symbian v3 and v4 smartphones will be terrific machines.

What’s the last Symbian-based smartphone you purchased?