In five years from now, we might work on laptops with Symbian software. Nokia has been recently heard about its plans to put the Symbian software program on laptops, and the vendor predicted converged devices to be available as likely as five years from now on.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the CEO at Nokia, confirmed the plans and the five-year deadline while he offered an interview for Finnish National Broadcaster last night. He said that they didn’t have to imagine themselves in five years from now as to see how a mobile phone and a PC may converge. Kallasvuo said that Nokia is looking very interested in the program.

Many would wonder why Nokia would do such a thing, especially when getting a Symbian to work on a laptop should cost about €500 million. The software was especially designed to work at lower power consumption so this would imply that the laptop should have a significantly better battery life.
 
The software already has some compatibilities with Microsoft and the Office packages (one of them underlines in blue the spelling mistakes), but it certainly lacks in a GUI fit for the desktop. Besides, the Symbian doesn’t have drivers for the myriad of hardware users expect to be able to drop into their laptops these days.

Many think that connecting a screen, a keyboard and a mouse to a mobile phone can be really awkward, as it is if using the Redfly. The compelling thing is to maintain the connection between the desktop and the mobility of the computer.

Nokia has all the necessary money to do that, but would it get it back by creating such a combination?