Nokia's Symbian legacy comes to an end with N8 successor

Nokia has confirmed that it will be releasing one final Symbian-powered device before putting the platform to bed for good.

Nokia gave an official statement confirming the end of Symbian early on in 2011. In their letter to the Symbian community, Nokia stated:

'Our intention is that when users come to the end of the natural lifecycle of their Symbian device they will make the change to a Nokia Windows Phone device and so it would not be in our interests to undermine their Nokia smartphone experience.'

According to the theregister, 'Nokia is said to be hastening the demise of its legacy Symbian platform, cancelling the development of all but one new Symbian-based device. Although Nokia Belle updates will continue to ship to existing customers, only one new model – a successor to the N8 high-end camera phone – will reach the market.'

This move nevertheless places the jobs of nearly 3,000 Symbian developers in jeopardy as well.

According to GSM arena, this is tricky situation for Accenture too who absorbed the 3,000  Symbian developers from Nokia and has an agreement tying them into providing Symbian development until 2016.

Even though the Symbian was a great OS, Nokia is likely to focus more on the Lumia range, which is gradually bringing some life back to Nokia's ailing brand.

The successor to the Nokia N8 – and the last ever Symbian device – is expected to feature a 12-megapixel camera and some seriously hot-to-trot design work. 

So we're looking forward to seeing what Nokia comes up with, providing the N8's successor isn't shelved.