There were rumors in the air regarding Nokia working on Android phones
as an ad appeared in LinkedIn calling for Engineers to work in Embedded
Linux middleware. However, Nokia has officially clarified that they are
not working on Android phones at this moment and the ad has also been
removed from LinkedIn. Nokia has made it also clear that they are only
working on their native maps app, Here for Android.
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Linux is core to Android OS and that is the reason why many assumed that
Nokia is starting to work on Android phones when they called for Linux
engineers. It may be recalled that Nokia is now bringing out more
Windows based phones and Linux is not a component to it. This fact too
made people guessing on a likely marriage of Nokia and Android OS.
Experts believe that Nokia may not think about switching to any other OS
than Windows for the time being as it would be a costly exercise and
Nokia is not in a position to take any such bigger financial
commitments.
Nokia has officially declined on the possibility of
working on Android phones. Mr. Doug Dawson, Media Relations guy from
Nokia tweeted ""Our recently posted job is linked to our HERE Maps
support for other platforms, including iOS and Android." They have made
it clear that their only Android association is with respect to the
development of Nokia Here maps for Android app.
It was reported
earlier that Nokia is already working on Android version of its Here
Maps app and they are planning to send the SDK soon to OEM's of Android
devices to integrate their native maps app. Nokia had released their iOS
version of Here maps app some time back (Read the news in Gizbot).
Nokia Here is expected to give more unique features like public
transport information and turn by turn navigation.
courtesy: oneindia.in
courtesy: oneindia.in
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