Sony Ericsson and Motricity announced today the launch of the new, global Sony Ericsson Application Shop for Sony Ericsson’s Symbian OSâ„¢ enabled phones. It provides customers with an enhanced user experience through completely new design, easy access to a broad applications catalog and several billing options. Motricity, a leading global provider of mobile content services…
Together for the S60 as a standard platform
Nokia Corporation and Vodafone have today announced that they are collaborating to strengthen the S60 software platform’s role in Vodafone’s device portfolio. The collaboration will help Vodafone to offer new services more quickly to its customers by increasing the use of S60 as a standard software platform for mobile handsets worldwide. Nokia and Vodafone will…
Yahoo! – Symbian Platinum Partner program
Yahoo! Inc. and Symbian Limited today announced that Yahoo! has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian OSâ„¢ phones and applications. Last month Yahoo! announced its new Yahoo! Go Mobile service which will soon launch in North America, Europe and Asia. This new service provides Symbian OS phone users with…
Symbian's new pricing models
Symbian Limited today announced new alternative software license pricing models designed to enable handset manufacturers to target lower cost device market segments and drive higher volumes of Symbian OSâ„¢ phones. With strong growth in unit shipments at over 100 per cent annually for four consecutive years, Symbian is now introducing new scaleable pricing options to…
First-ever 3G single core reference design
Freescale Semiconductor, Nokia Corporation and Symbian Limited are joining together to create the first 3G mobile phone reference design using Freescale’s single core modem, targeted to run S60 software on Symbian OS. This reference design is expected to provide handset manufacturers and operators the first real solution to address the mid-tier 3G market segment, and…
New brand – BenQ-Siemens
BenQ Mobile today unveiled its new consumer brand BenQ-Siemens to a global audience and set out a 2006 strategy for asserting its position in the mobile handset industry. Forged from the partnership between Siemens’ ex handset business and the Taiwanese consumer electronics group BenQ, the new company will focus on expanding its offering in the…