A Symbian Spokesperson gave a statement to ZD|Net and apparently said they are thrilled that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to port Qt to S60 and it agrees with Nokia’s statement that this purchase will make S60 more competitive in the marketplace.
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) told Linux Devices that since joining the LiMo foundation over a year ago they’ve been in the process of switching to GTK; none of Motorola’s development tools are based on Qt either.
There you have it. The whole mobile industry is sitting on their hands trying to understand why Nokia purchased Trolltech. I think they did it to reduce coding redundancy, others say Nokia plans on gutting Symbian, frankly we will not know what the outcome is for at least a year or two since that is typically how much time it takes for a mobile phone to be conceived, prototyped and shipped.
Definitely enjoyed reading this ARCchart article by Matt Lewis. In a nutshell he says that Trolltech was practically the only Linux vendor making money, they’ve been around forever and the purchase price of $153 million by Nokia is in line with what the company was worth over 2 years ago. How are other Linux vendors expected to react to this cold hard reality that frankly no one cares about them?
Thanks for the link Jouni Miettunen. Recommend read for people into mobile platforms.
CFO of HTC Hui-ming Cheng is saying that the company is going to earn 20-30% more revenues in 2008 compared to 2007 and will be launching 3G products in Q2 with lower end EDGE units later this year. The products that are launching next quarter will be different from the current Touch lineup (what does that mean?) and Q4 of this year their new Shanghai factory is expected to be up and running churning out a million mobiles a month.
Instead of shoving a really fast, battery hungry processor, inside a mobile phone Accenture choose to offload the computing to a nearby laptop that did all the maths and then transferred the results back to the low powered LG feature phone shown above. It sounds great in theory, but will it scale? Will latency ruin the user experience? Will operators be happy that the network is being flooded with data going out to be processed and the results coming back in?
Too early to tell, but definitely something to watch out for. Intel and ARM would rather that processing power be inside your mobile phone, because they make more money selling processor dies, where as Accenture’s solution can drive data usage and therefore increase the use of underutilized 3G networks.
In an effort that seemed envisioned to boost efficiency and cut costs along the way, Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) is outsourcing production of its recentlyannounced mobile phones to two Taiwan-based OEMs.
According to DigiTimes, Arima Communications will be making T270, T280 as well as R300 Radio models, while Chi Mei Communication Systems (CMCS) will handle the production of the R306 Radio clamshell. Sources in Taiwan’s handset industry say total shipments from the two makers is expected to reach 15-18 million units in 2008.
Last year, Sony Ericsson purchased about 8.5 million handsets from Taiwan-based OEMs…
Nokia Siemens Networks has selected Ubiquisys to cooperate and market 3G femto cell solutions to operators around the world. A brief introduction to femto cells: your mobile operator gives you a box that you connect to your broadband internet, now that box handles your voice and data versus the cell tower somewhere in your neighborhood. You benefit by getting signal in your home where you otherwise wouldn’t and they benefit by removing the load off their cell towers. It is a win win situation in theory, but I’m unaware of any operators who have deployed a large cell femtocell augmented network.
Verizon today announced that the popular BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) 8830 World Edition is now available in red. Boasting both CDMA and GSM radios, this red baby is designed for the modern, fashion-savvy globetrotters. Or that’s just ladies Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is targeting…
Whatever the case is, if you want it – you’ll have to wait for another day when the old-new global-roamin’ BlackBerry starts selling online for $299.99 after a $100 rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Those that prefer to “first touch then buy” will wait a bit longer, as Verizon Communications Stores are getting their devices on February 8th. Yeah, it’s a Valentine’s Day thing… Full release follows after the jump.
230 people in the San Francisco Bay area are trialing electronic wallets embedded into Samsung mobile phones that allow them to pay for public transport and fast food. They’re probably using NFC, but CBS (3 minute video) is too afraid to get too geeky on us and explain the actual technology. Consumers shouldn’t have to know how it works, they just need to know it is safe and reliable. If trials are successful then they’ll roll this out throughout the country, half a decade after Japan.
Lenovo makes mobile phones, you probably didn’t know that however and that is why they never made any money. In a move that surprised no one they’ve decided to get rid of their mobile phones unit for a cool $100 million; Hony Capital is the buyer.
In a video that looks to create dollar signs in the eyes of sports therapy professionals and make sufferers of carpal tunnel syndrome even more uneasy, KEYnetik, makers of RockNscroll, are demoing an application that uses the accelerometer inside the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95 to act as an input mechanism.
I can’t imagine doing this for more than 30 seconds much less all day.
According to DigiTimes, Arima Communications will be making T270, T280 as well as R300 Radio models, while Chi Mei Communication Systems (CMCS) will handle the production of the R306 Radio clamshell. Sources in Taiwan’s handset industry say total shipments from the two makers is expected to reach 15-18 million units in 2008.
Verizon today announced that the popular BlackBerry (
