Android + Symbian Merger just Speculation

Android-Symbian Merger just Speculation. Following the previous rumor about Symbian + Android Collaboration? Officials from Symbian, Nokia, and Google all dismissed the prediction -- contained most recently in a report released yesterday by mobile analysis firm J. Gold Associates -- as pure speculation.

Dismissing it as a "rumor," a Nokia spokesperson declined to comment on the report. Symbian officials were unavailable but have dismissed such talk in private.

"We don't comment on market rumors or speculations," said a Google spokesperson.

"There is no substantive basis to this," said mobile analyst Carmi Levy, senior VP for strategic consulting at AR Communications. "Nokia was quite adamant last November when it first shrugged off suggestions of a possible merger with Android."

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