February 4th, 2010
Last June Nokia announced its plans to go open source with the Symbian platform. Already handed over to the Symbian Foundation, the smartphone OS that currently powers over 300million handsets has been battling it out with the Apple iPhone, Android OS and others in the race to be the smartest mobile OS. It announced today that the Symbian OS is now open sourced (and free), full 4 months before schedule. This opens the door for Symbian to be ported on other mobile devices like netbooks, tablets or perhaps even PMPs.
While we heard since years that mobile is the future, mobile is the future … the fact remains that true smartphone capabilities were tested only by the iPhone in 2007 and since then we have seen newer platforms like the Android and WebOS steal the show with nothing competitive being presented by Symbian / Nokia. Nokia is one of the most efficient mobile manufacturers in the world and still the largest globally, but the loss of mindshare to the competition is significant. Samsung has climbed up to the number 2 slot globally and might well be knocking on Nokia’s door. The enterprise market is ruled by Blackberry and powerusers are diehard Android / iPhone lovers. How long can Nokia survive on the common man? As a matter of fact most common users use a decade old WinXP on their desktop, but when it comes to mobile the industry is moving fast, unbelievable fast!
Nokia avoided the Google backed Android OS in favor of Maemo (not to forget that they are also working on oFono with Intel). This has made many to term the OS strategy by Nokia as “Confused”. However Samsung has been offering everything that one can expect, low end phones with its own non-smart OS (some on the other side aswell), Windows Mobile & Android smartphones and an upcoming BADA OS. So will Symbian manages to turn the tables with the ambitious move to go Open, we hope to see Nokia deliver some new wine 
Categories: Tech Industry News, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: free mobile os, free os, nokia os, open source, os, smartphone os, symbian | No Comments
December 3rd, 2009
Nokia is promising that they are re-engineering the UI of their offerings in 2010, working closely with Symbian. The new interface would sport multitouch, lesser clutter, easy email, significantly improved browser etc. It sounded to me as they are making the iPhone after Apple released it 2.5 yrs back. Though over 3 times faster OS sounds good, lets see how they deliver. Pics below, video on Engadget. (more…)
Categories: First look, Tech Industry News, nokia |
Tags: nokia 2010, nokia full touchscreen 2010, nokia smartphone in 2010, nokia symbian 3, nokia symbian 4, symbian, symbian version in 2010 | 1 Comment
November 1st, 2009
With the major cellphone OS application stores already in place, why should the one having the largest market share be left out? We are talking about Symbian. The platform has announced that its own application store is now ‘open’.
The announcement about the Symbian application store, dubbed Horizon, came at (more…)
Categories: First look, Market Watch, Softwares, Tech Industry News, mobile app |
Tags: Hoizon Symbian store, symbain horizon app store, symbian, Symbian app store, Symbian Horizon | 4 Comments
August 28th, 2009
After numerous leaks and lots of excitement, Nokia has officially announced the N900. The N900 is the first Nokia phone powered by the Maemo OS. Previously we have seen Nokia’s internet tablets like the N800 running the Linux-based Maemo 5, so while Nokia has phased out its internet tablets, devices like the N900 will pack in all the features of an internet tablet as well as a phone. Industry experts believe that (more…)
Categories: Launch Pad, Reviews, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: maemo, maemo5, n900 review, n9000, nokia, nokia n900, nokia n9000 review, review, syimbian, symbian | 4 Comments
November 5th, 2008
While the Nokia E71 is not too expensively priced (@ Rs 20000 in India); a cheaper version E63 has leaked out during a Symbian Software Show. The E63 is similar in design but features a plastic body instead of the metal used in E71, and runs on Symbian v9.2 OS with S60 v3.1 UI.
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Tags: e63, e71, leaked, nokia, symbian | 1 Comment
July 25th, 2008
Though I haven’t had the opportunity to hold the E71 for too long, the few minutes that I had with is enough for a short review. I am currently using a E61i (and my next upgrade most likely is E71) and I have used the Treo 650 and the E62 for a long time. So whats so common in all these? Well, the QWERTY keyboard! Ask any Blackberry user what he loves in his cell, and he would undoubtedly tell you that the pleasure of typing on the QWERTY is addictive, and add to that a fast and responsive OS and you would have a winner. The E71 is very handy and probably much more sleek than its predessors
The navigation joystick that we originally has in E62 was replaced with the D-Pad in E61i and is still good enough with excellent performance in the E71. Its crisp and big enough for my thumb. E71 packs in a lot of features: AGPS, 120MB internal memory + MicroSD slot, 3.2MP camera with Flash!, WiFi, Bluetooth with AD2P, Adobe Flash support (lets you surf YouTube and other flash content).
Dealers are selling the device claiming that all E90 features are here and its half the size. Can’t blame them for that can we? The device sure is sleek. E71 has a 1500mAh Bp-4L battery which is the same that was used in E61i, but is strong enough to handle the GPS and WiFi.
One thing that I miss on the Symbian based Nokia devices, the speed and swift OS like the Palm OS (the one I experienced in Treo 650). The messaging app in E62 and E61i gets slow as soon as you cross some 1200 messages in your Inbox. Although I couldn’t test the E71 with that much data, but with a faster processor and three times more RAM am hoping it would be better!
Comprehensive review at All About Symbian
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August 1st, 2007
Sony Ericsson has unveiled its newest pocket-sized smart phone, the P1i.
Based on Symbian OS (v9.1), the P1i has a 2.6-inch touch screen and a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera. P1i is the successor to the SE P990i which didn’t live upto the expectations of its fans.
However this totally business class phone is set to show up the other business phone out there. It’s a 3G enabled with Wi-Fi, support for Blackberry connect, Pre-loaded Exchange ActiveSync with hi-speed UMTS. It’s also equipped with a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera.
Among its many other features it also supports GPS and VOIP. It has a QWERTY keypad and supports handwriting recognition. The P1i is equipped with a large 2.6 inch touch screen with a Transflective Display.
It also has support for Memory Stick Micro (M2) besides having an internal phone memory of 160MB.
Listed below are the specifications of the Sony Ericsson P1i Smartphone:
# Screen: 262,144 color touchscreen
240?320 pixels
# Memory: Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
Phone memory 160MB
# Networks: GSM 900
GSM 1800
GSM 1900
UMTS 2100
# Available colors: Silver Black
# Size: 4.1 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches
# Weight: 124 g
The Sony Ericsson business class P1i smartphone carries a price tag of Rs.24,000.
Categories: Launch Pad, sony ericsson |
Tags: 3g, blackberry, gps, launch, P1i, qwerty, SE P990i, sony ericsson, symbian, voip, Wi-Fi | 1 Comment
