Last weeks rumors regarding Nokia dropping the Symbian operating for their new Maemo OS, Nokia is now making it known to the public that they are steadfastly supporting the Symbian OS. Based on the excitement surrounding the Nokia N900 announcement, Nokia top brass has decided that by 2012 Maemo OS will be the official face of the Nokia high-end family. With the new Nokia N900 sporting the Maemo and a recent announcement by the Maemo marketing team that Nokia will now use the OS for all their N-series phones, it is only natural that people would start assuming that the major phone manufacturer will be doing without Symbian after a while.

In detail, the announcement from the marketing team stated that by 2012, the N-series would all be using the Maemo OS. Considering that the N97 just won the title of Asia Mobile Award’s Best Broadband Device, the N-Series stands as Nokia flag-bearing device. For the Maemo to take the position of what can only be called as “favored OS” in a company, this is still a big blog to Symbian, whose OS has been a staple with Nokia mobile phones.

Still, according to the official Nokia Blog, the Maemo Marketing team had jumped the gun with their announcement. As stated in the blog, Nokia will continue to use the Symbian OS for most of their devices while their high end line (which is the N-Series) will be using the Maemo. Oddly enough, this announcement does not dispute that of the Maemo marketing team; though it does specifically classify that Symbian will still be in use. The Nokia blog confirmed that Maemo is best suited for phones that are similar to desktop computers; which leaves Symbian better used for all the types of phones.

At this point, the only thing for certain is that the Maemo will now be a mainstay in Nokia devices –particularly the N-Series and perhaps high-end Nokia devices outside the N-series. The Symbian OS will be used in all their mid-level smart phones to their greater mass of GSM devices. One thing is for sure though: there are more Maemo smartphone/tablets coming and N900 is only the first device of its breed.