Nokia ships its last Symbian phones this summer

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/nokia-808-pureview-619.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/12/nokia-ships-its-last-symbian-phones-this-summer/)That moment we'd been expecting (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/rip-symbian/) (and to some extent, dreading) has come: Nokia is near shipping its last Symbian smartphones (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/24/nokia-808-pureview-the-last-symbian-phone/). The company should deliver the final round of 808 PureViews (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/26/nokia-808-pureview-review/) sometime this summer, marking the effective end to an 11-year-old platform. Those still attached to the software will have to take comfort in support that will last until at least 2016 (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/26/elop-symbian-will-continue-getting-updates-until-2016-at-least/). We're not overly attached to Symbian -- itnever completely adjusted (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/) to the modern era -- but it's hard not to shed a tear for the OS that brought us the N95 (http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/hands-on-with-the-nokia-n95/), E71 (http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/19/nokia-e71-review/) and other smartphone classics. Let's just hope that thenext round of Lumias (http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/07/nokia-eos-video-shows-mechanical-shutter/) can fill the hole in our hearts.

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