Nokia 808 PureView - The Last Symbian Smartphone

Nokia has confirmed that 808 PureView which was launched last year is officially the last Symbian smartphone. Nokia signed a deal with Microsoft back in 2011 for  Nokia using Microsoft's Windows Phone as it main mobile platform. Microsoft agreed to pay Nokia $1 billion per year in quarterly payments of $250 million. But now it would appear that Nokia will have to start paying Microsoft.
Nokia pays Microsoft royalty fees for Windows Phone, and according to Nokia, their commitment to Microsoft is now more than the remaining amount that Microsoft is due to pay them.
Symbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture.Symbian was originally developed by Symbian Ltd., as a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. The current form of Symbian is an open-source platform developed by Symbian Foundation in 2009, as the successor of the original Symbian OS. Symbian was the most popular smartphone OS until the end of 2010, when it was overtaken by Android and iOS. On 11 February 2011, Nokia announced that it would use Microsoft's Windows Phone OS as its primary smartphone platform, and Symbian will be its franchise platform, dropping Symbian as its main smartphone OS of choice. On 22 June 2011 Nokia made an agreement with Accenture for an outsourcing program. Accenture will provide Symbian-based software development and support services to Nokia through 2016; about 2,800 Nokia employees became Accenture employees as of October 2011.The transfer was completed on 30 September 2011.
It will be interesting to see what Nokia’s position is in the next financial quarter,and whether they are able to make a profit again like they did in the last quarter.