silicon.com has an interesting Symbian-related article. Author mixes Nigel Clifford’s (Symbian’s CEO) quotations with some research data and analysts’ prediction. Discussed issues involve current Symbian’s markets, including Japan and EMEA, and the markets where Symbian sees its future growth – i.e. China; Symbian’s enterprise plans; and mid-range product offering. It’s concise and provides a nice…
Phone or a Multimedia Computer
According to The Seattle Times, workers in Nokia are forbidden to call any Nokia device a “phone”. Instead they are “multimedia computers”. Now, that’s weird. I can understand that people call their smartphones “mobile computers”, but “multimedia computers”!? Kind of obsolete – almost all computers today have the multimedia features. Also, what about Nokia’s regular…
Nokia 770 with Google Talk is here
Yesterday, I wrote about the new Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Well, it’s here. Not hardware – just the OS. The upgraded features of the introduced OS 2006 edition include support for rich Internet communications, including pre-installed Google Talk which is based on open standards and is compatible with all instant messaging clients that support Jabber/XMPP.…
100th commercial Symbian phone model ships
Symbian Ltd. today announced that Symbian OS has shipped in 100 different commercial phone models to over 250 major network operators worldwide. In its Q1 2006 results issued today, Symbian also announced it had shipped 70.5 million phones to date worldwide since its formation. Since the Ericsson R380 shipped in 2000, Symbian has set the…
11.70m Symbian OS shipments in Q1 2006
Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS, today released the following unaudited financial and operational figures for the quarter ended 31 March 2006: Q1 2006 Highlights: Global shipments of Symbian OS phones during Q1 2006 rose to 11.70m; year on year quarter growth of 73% (Q1 2005 – 6.75m) Cumulative shipments of Symbian OS…
Few questions with Hannu Markus from Nokia
I’ve been privileged to get some questions answered from Nokia‘s Communications Manager, Mr. Hannu Markus. In the email discussion, he resolved some of my thoughts about Nokia and its strategy. Here are some question he answered: Q: One of the important recent news is that Palm’s market share is going down. That could be good…
Connecting the S60 phones and Linux
Developer, Nick Burch, prepared a page with details how he got his S60 phones play nicely with Linux. He also provided the details explaining what applications he’s put on them, how he’s (trying to) program them, what he’s used them for, and other similar things. Some of the issues he covered: Communicating with S60 phone…
Nokia to open stores in the US
PC Magazine notes that Nokia is planning to open stores in the US. A “flagship store” will be opened in Chicago on June 21, with a New York store in the “Fifth Avenue region” opening before the end of 2006. Both stores will sell phones not available directly through US carriers. The stores will sell…
Can we install OS in our mobile phones ourselves?
Have you thought about it? It seems reasonable to think that way. After all Apple had its operating system on their own computer and they’ve managed to get only the tiny piece of the market share in the long run. IBM PC is the dominant platform on the market today, since everyone can make it.…
Palm's going down – a chance for Symbian
After two years since the release of the last major upgrade to the Palm operating system for mobile devices, CNet’s News.com notes that Palm OS may be losing its mojo with software developers. Some larger developers of mobile applications are looking elsewhere when launching their new multimedia applications and both Symbian and Windows Mobile emerge…