In his latest insight article just published online, David Wood, executive vice president of research at Symbian, explains the reasons increasingly powerful and useful smartphones are spreading ever more widely in the real world. Pointing out the different categories of device that smartphones are likely to supersede, such as music players, games consoles, messaging terminals…
Expanding the Symbian platform
Today, I’m ranting about the possibilities of Symbian platform beyond mobile phones. Symbian Inc. is the mobile phone OS development company, but as mobile phones are getting smarter and new needs arrive, maybe they could jump-in in the other markets. Just a thought, but think for a moment – one day we will all need…
The hidden value of the mobile operating system
Symbian’s David Wood insight no.7 covers growing mobile OS debate with a hard look under the bonnets of Linux, Microsoft and Symbian OS and asks which is truly delivering a product purely for the mobile environment and who will ultimately bring smartphones to the mass market? Author suggests six of the problems faced by Linux…
History of Symbian, 1980-2004
Today, we’re going back in time. There’s a Symbian history not many of us ware aware of. For instance, did you know that Symbian OS has its roots in Psion, which was founded in 1980 by David Potter. Don’t want to rant much about it – it’s just great to know how all this has…
The Series 90 future
No Symbian news today, or at least I haven’t find any. So, I’ve decided to blog about the thing I was thinking for some time – the future of Symbian series 90. Let’s roll… So far, the only device which supports series 90 is Nokia 7710. Nokia used to promote this phone heavily in all…
Nokia and Linksys for the Digital Home
Nokia and Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, today announced a product bundle entitled, “Go wireless at home”, which includes the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet bundled with either a Linksys high-speed wireless router or gateway. This convenient and secure wireless Internet bundle has been designed to provide freedom for home users who wish to access…
Symbian eyes feature phone opportunity
CyberMedia News reports that Symbian Ltd. is now setting its sights beyond its traditional realm of high-end smart phones. As the article says, Symbian is changing tacks to target the mid-range “feature-phone market”. Feature phones are phones, which lack the typical bells and whistles associated with smart phones, but instead carry specific features such as…
Tough times for Symbian are coming!?
TechNewsWorls reports about Microsoft Windows Mobile census deal. Analysts see this as a score one, at Symbian’s expense. After getting out of the gate slowly, Microsoft won its largest-ever contract for mobile phone software from the U.S. Census Bureau. The contract covers 500,000 handsets and could lead the software giant to dethrone Research In Motion’s…
Making phones act like PCs
The Seattle Times brings an interesting article about overall smartphone industry. As we all know Symbian is leading the way, but the giant from Redmond doesn’t sleep. Author argues that (not suprisingly) Microsoft envisions a day when the Start button makes it into a corner of most mobile phone screens. Furthermore, author discusses different approach…
Where Fixed Line and Mobile Merge
Nokia and T-Com, a division of Deutsche Telekom Group, are testing Internet Protocol (IP) convergence solutions on the Nokia N80 and Nokia E60 devices. New service will be called T-One and will offer customers a simple and convenient way to access both fixed line and mobile data services on the aforementioned Nokia devices. Using the…