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The smartphone market isn’t exactly the realm of LG, whose handsets often offer fashion before function, but if a report from Telecoms Korea is to be believed, it looks like the company may be completely changing its stance for the next year.
It appears that LG has realized it will need to start...
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Filed under: Software , Linux , Symbian , Windows Mobile What else can we say? Sure, 2010 is a long ways out, but you knew good and well alpha / beta versions of Firefox Mobile would emerge long before then, right? Here we have the first living proof that Firefox Mobile (or Fennec, as it were) is alive...
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Engadget Mobile
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10-12-2008
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Filed under: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux, Software, internet, web browser, WebBrowser, Browser, Web, MobileFirefox, firefox, Mobile Firefox, mobile internet, MobileInternet, screenshots, FirefoxMobile, firefox mobile, Fennec
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Filed under: Software , Linux , Symbian ActiveSync and Windows Mobile Device Center have historically dominated Microsoft's first-party mobile sync support for Windows, but there's a little problem with that: not everyone uses a WinMo phone. Enter Phone Data Manager, a new app in the spirit of...
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“Windows Mobile”and “iPhone-like”are not two phrases you tend to see together (other than in the sentence “Windows Mobile is far from iPhone-like”).
Nevertheless, a group of ex-Apple engineers are aiming to bring a touch of the iPhone’s UI class to smartphone...
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Filed under: Handsets , Samsung , Orange , Linux , Symbian , ALP , Android Without much fanfare, the Samsung i800 was canned at the tail end of last month. When asked why, Orange simply noted that it was pulled in order to "prepare a more competitive Linux mobile." A recent writeup at Ostatic...
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Engadget Mobile
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08-17-2008
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Filed under: Samsung, Handsets, Symbian, Linux, Google, Orange, alp, Mobile Linux, Access, MobileLinux, LiMo foundation, android, LiMo, LimoFoundation, i800, access linux, AccessLinux
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Dredging up memories of flopped rumors from days gone by, Michael Dell, the founder of the computer manufacturer that bears his namesake, has hinted at the possibility that Dell is entering the handset business. More specifically, Dell could be poised to take a swing at the smartphone segment that fellow...
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The two largest open-source mobile platform initiatives are swirling up rumors that they’ll be joining forces to combine the Symbian and Android platforms spearheaded by Nokia and Google, respectively. Allegedly informed analysts at J. Gold Associates are claiming that a merger between Nokia and...
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07-26-2008
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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, merger, rumors, Linux, Google, Mobile OS, Announcements, open source, Partnerships, android, mobile platform, symbian foundation
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Analyst J. Gold Associates said the merger of the two mobile operating systems will begin within three to six months. Nokia (NYSE: NOK)-owned Symbian and Google (NSDQ: GOOG)-created Android are destined to be combined to provide a single open source operating system for smartphones, an analyst firm said...
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Google is pushing their Linux-based mobile operating system, dubbed Android, to the development community as the mobile platform destined to revolutionize the mobile space. And, under the search-giant's mantra of "do no evil," Google has been touting Android as a completely "open"...
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Symbian's buy-out by Nokia, by far the largest handset manufacturer to rely on the Symbian smartphone mobile operating system, paves the way for an open-source Symbian environment that will hopefully spark a new wave of Symbian-based mobile platforms. With Symbian's code destined to be opened...
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07-16-2008
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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, Linux, Google, Announcements, friend, android, Open Handset Alliance, oha, collaboration, symbian foundation
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Thanks to everyone that replied to my cry for help on mobile operating systems. I’m trying to take a developers view on the mobile platform market and work out why a developer might choose a particular OS or platform. Coming from an X86 world myself, I find it difficult to understand how Moblin...
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James, Kevin, and I spent a bit more time than planned talking about the upcoming iPhone 3G on MobileTechRoundup show #138, but we eventually did move on to talk about lots more in the world of mobile tech. I talked about my experiences with upgrading the Nokia N78 over the air and James is going to...