Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

Nokia Starts Windows Phone Training for Symbian Developers

June 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia’s Czech department has started to invite Symbian developers to the Microsoft offices. There, the companies will help developers in their transition from Symbian development to Windows Phone.

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Symbian open for Business

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

While Nokia invested a lot in letting Symbian go open source under the Symbian Foundation, it seems the giant has changed it’s plans now it bought Symbian back. From now on, clients have to pay again.

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Three Updates for Symbian in 2011

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Though Nokia has been reported to be sacking part of it’s Symbian developers, the vendor announced that it still expects to roll out three updates for the Symbian platform in 2011.

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Opera Launches Opera Mobile Store

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Opera has launched it’s own browser based app store called Opera Mobile Store. The app store is active in over 200 countries and supports platforms like Android, BlackBerry, Palm and Symbian.

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Ovi Store Ads QT and Arabic Support for Symbian^3 Devices

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Sometimes you stumble across things that sound pretty logical, yet they seem to come late. One of those things is Nokia’s announcement that the Ovi Store will finally support Arabic on Symbian^3 devices.

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Herocraft Passes 12.345.678 Downloads on Ovi

December 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Talking about big numbers, Herocraft announced the company has passed the joyfull number of 12.345.678 downloads on Nokia’s Ovi Store.

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PlaySpan Enters the Mobile Payments Arena

November 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

If PayPal doesn’t offer enough in-app purchase opportunities, you might want to check out PlaySpan’s new UltimatePay Mobile system. The system allows billing on Android and Nokia phones.

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AppCon: The Future of Apps with Nokia and QT

November 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Andreas Jekl explained the OS strategy of Nokia. While many expect Series 40 to be replaced with Symbian, Nokia will remain building S40 devices for the low-end markets.

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SEE: Nokia Takes Back Symbian

November 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The rumors are true, the Symbian Foundation is winding down, but symbian itself won’t. In fact, Nokia has announced it will be taking Symbian back in-house, not long after the EU funded it.

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Symbian Receives €22 Million Investment

November 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

While we recently reported that cash reserves at Symbian had been drying up, the foundation now announced new funding coming straight from the good old European Commission.

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