2014, the Nokia "Kill" Symbian and Meego

Nokia announced it would lay off support for besutannya mobile operating system , namely Symbian and MeeGo . Early 2014 , a long drive ending Symbian and MeeGo .

" Beginning January 1, 2014 , you will no longer be able to publish new content or updating existing content for Symbian and MeeGo , " wrote Nokia team to application developers through an email , as quoted from Maemo.org forum .

Application designed for Symbian can still be downloaded by the user . The developers also still earn money on paid apps for Symbian that they sell in the Nokia Store . However , developers can no longer publish updates to Symbian application on Nokia Store .

Symbian is an operating system that was released in 2002 . He first used by the Nokia 7650 phone , and was last used by Nokia Pure View 808 in 2012 .

While MeeGo , the operating system is an open source program that uses core ( kernel ) Linux . MeeGo is a joint project between Intel and Nokia began in February 2010 . However , one and a half years ago , Intel withdrew from the project , till Nokia itself, that develop .

Since Nokia established an exclusive partnership with Microsoft in February 2011 to adopt Windows Phone , MeeGo less attention from Nokia .

Nokia said its main focus now is the Lumia family of phones based on Windows Phone and mobile Asha family .

Business unit of Nokia mobile phones and services , along with the patent , has been acquired by Microsoft in September 2013 valued at 7.2 billion dollars . The acquisition transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2013.

Officials and approximately 32,000 employees planned to be transferred to Nokia Microsoft . A total of 18,300 employees of whom are directly involved in the manufacture of products and services Nokia devices .

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