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Filed under: Software , Nokia , Symbian , Android Nothing like a couple passive-aggressive keynote speeches and some spirited debate to get the blood pumping -- and with competition in the open mobile platform space more heated than it's ever been before, it was just a matter of time before these...
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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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Somebody just had to say it. Google has been blowing mighty horns about how its open-source Android smartphone OS will blow all its competitors out of the water. Nokia, meanwhile, with Symbian and access to the largest smartphone market share, is surely to make a difference when the first traces of its...
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07-26-2008
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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, merger, Google, Featured, os, free, operating system, open-source, wireless, android, Software&Services
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Industry analysts J. Gold Associates has a theory that, if true, could mean that the mobile market is going to get a LOT more interesting.
Nokia and Google, says J. Gold, are close to combiniing the Android and Symbian operating system “to provide a single open source OS.”
In some ways it...
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Filed under: Software , Nokia , Symbian , Android According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates, Google's Android OS and Nokia's Symbian will " combine to provide a single open source OS," sometime in the very near future... say, three to six months. Sure, Android is...
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07-25-2008
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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, speculation, Google, Software, rumor, OpenSource, open source, analyst, android, j. gold associates, J.GoldAssociates
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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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Kai Öistämö, Nokia’s head of devices, said during a press conference in London that the first Symbian Foundationsymbian powered devices will come in in 2010 at the earliest.
Developers apparently can start working on the new open-source platform immediately, since according to Öistämö, “applications...
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06-25-2008
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Filed under: Nokia, Handsets, Symbian, s60, os, operating system, open-source, wireless, android, mobile platform, symbian foundation, 2010
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Just in time for the Symbian 10th anniversary do, Nokia has announced plans to buy the remaining shares in Symbian and open up the S60 operating system for public use.
Nokia already owns 48% of shares and is set to spend $140 million on the remainder. 91% ofsdhareholders have reportedly agreed so far...
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This was quite unexpected, but Nokia together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone are going to build the Symbian Foundation, and will dedicate their time and efforts to open source mobile technology.
At the same...
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06-24-2008
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, Nokia, Symbian, s60, Google, Software, uiq, wireless, android, moap, Software&Services, mobile platform, symbian foundation
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Filed under: Handsets , Nokia , Symbian , Android We don't know too much about the clip you're about to watch, but we can tell you this: someone has apparently gone and gotten Android up and running on a Nokia N95 , and they've captured it on the lowest quality video we've ever seen....
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Analysts at ABI Research have put out a report that’s sure to delight the hearts of Linux fan boys everywhere: the company says that by 2013, mobile Linux will be the second place operating system behind Symbian with 23 percent of the market. ABI says that in the coming years, Linux wars will see...
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Filed under: Handsets , Software , Nokia , Linux , Symbian , Windows Mobile , Apple , Android Palm's not the only company that isn't afraid to speak out on the Open Handset Alliance . Nokia, Microsoft and Symbian made it most clear today that they don't perceive danger from the new initiative...
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11-05-2007
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Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Mobile, Apple, Nokia, Handsets, Symbian, Linux, Google, Software, uiq, android, Open Handset Alliance, oha, OpenHandsetAlliance, symbia