The story of Nokia buying out Symbian had caused us to cheer in joy with the anticipation that it’d usher in some kind of application revolution for S60. Alas, that never happened and it seems it will never happen again. Symbian Foundation is planning to replace the S60’s Avkon API with Qt when Symbian^4 is released in late 2010.

This means one thing straight forward and that is the future version of Symbian might not support S60 apps. I am not really disappointed with this because in the first place the apps for S60 were few, very very few. Nokia did manage to entice me with the N-Gage offering but other than that there was nothing much for a software geek like me.

Just to make it sound little more convincing all of this basically means that Symbian is going for a completer UI overhaul with new application suite for Symbian^4. This development can also mean that we may now keep loftier anticipations from Symbian for the better future versions in all the departments and most importantly in attracting developers to create lots and lots of cool apps. After all, why should iPhone owners have all the fun.

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