While officially announcing the Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet, Samsung has also unveiled some details on its future smartphone-related plans.

The South Korean company told Reuters that Android and Bada will be its key software platforms – which was already obvious, given the number of Android and Bada handsets introduced lately.

Samsung also says “a smartphone” with Windows Phone 7 will be launched this year, and that likely means only one model (probably the Samsung Cetus).

As for Symbian, Samsung has no devices based on it planned at the moment, because it doesn’t see “visible demand” for the platform – this could, and probably does mean that we won’t se any Symbian^3 smartphones from Samsung, ever.

Of course, Samsung is still a board member of the Symbian Foundation, so it may be interested in making Symbian^4 devices in the future. That’s if it won’t ditch Symbian altogether, as we’ve previously heard.

In related news, Symbian is reportedly losing market share in China, where it used to control about 70-80% of the market. To blame are, unsurprisingly, Android, Apple, and RIM’s BlackBerry.

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