Nokia reveals new plans for SW development

Nokia has just published its Q3 financial report and things are looking healthy. The company also let us in on their new plans concerning their smartphone platforms and changes ins software development.

Nokia managed to ship over 110 million handsets, bringing in over 7 billion euro in the process. The numbers of units sold is 1 percent down from the same quarter last year, while the revenue is 5 percent up.

The achieved operating profit stands at 403 million euro, which sounds much better than the 426 million euro loss recorded in Q3 of 2009. Mind you, the mobile division actually earned over 800 million but NAVTEQ and Nokia Siemens Network continue to lose money.

The average selling price of the Nokia feature phones is 42 euro (a 3 percent increase YoY), while smartphones cost 136 euro on average (28 percent decrease YoY).

The New software plans

And the company is taking measures to catch up too. As of today the company is adopting Qt as its sole development platform. This means that all apps made available for Symbian from now on will be compatible with MeeGo and vice versa. So developers will not need to make the tough choice between the two operating systems used by Nokia.

Qt will also be getting HTML5 support for development of both web content and applications. The Nokia devices web browser will support the HTML5 standard as well.

Next Nokia announced that you will not be hearing any more talk of Symbian^4 from them. The improvements that were planned for Symbian^4 will be introduced as soon as they become available so instead of one big release, its going to be more of a series of iterative updates to the existing platforms.

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