Nokia has announced - in 4000 more layoffs - as Symbian and 3 000 people working on it would be transferred to Accenture. It is quite surprising, in that Accenture is a consulting firm and not a company specializing in the development of mobile operating systems. The transfer should take place during the summer - if accepted - and ended at the end of 2011.
Accenture should continue to develop Symbian and Nokia to provide its mobile devices. It is interesting to note that Nokia will no longer develop its smartphone operating systems in-house: Meego is focused by Intel, Windows 7 Phone evidently comes from Microsoft and Symbian, therefore, changes in hand ...
Still remember that Symbian is a quite old: it was developed at the base to the PDA from Psion and Nokia has started using in 2001. Symbian was acquired by Nokia in 2008, but other manufacturers have used the system. These include LG (Symbian S60), Motorola (Symbian UIQ), Samsung (S60) and Sony Ericsson (UIQ and S60).
Remains to be seen what will become an OS that has been a leader in his time and who still retains a significant market share in the world of smartphones, even if current sales are weak. 
Accenture should continue to develop Symbian and Nokia to provide its mobile devices. It is interesting to note that Nokia will no longer develop its smartphone operating systems in-house: Meego is focused by Intel, Windows 7 Phone evidently comes from Microsoft and Symbian, therefore, changes in hand ...
Still remember that Symbian is a quite old: it was developed at the base to the PDA from Psion and Nokia has started using in 2001. Symbian was acquired by Nokia in 2008, but other manufacturers have used the system. These include LG (Symbian S60), Motorola (Symbian UIQ), Samsung (S60) and Sony Ericsson (UIQ and S60).
Remains to be seen what will become an OS that has been a leader in his time and who still retains a significant market share in the world of smartphones, even if current sales are weak.
- Nokia cuts 4,000 jobs worldwide, transfers 3,000 Symbian jobs to Accenture (27/04/2011)
- Nokia transfers Symbian development and 3,000 employees to Accenture, will downsize workforce by further 4,000 (27/04/2011)
- Nokia to transfer Symbian software activities to Accenture (27/04/2011)
- Nokia outsources Symbian to Accenture (27/04/2011)
- Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia (27/04/2011)
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