Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

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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Symbian Foundations in Financial Problems!?

October 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Earlier this month, both Samsung and SonyEricsson announced they are no longer developing mobile phones based on Symbian OS. Last week, Symbian’s Lee Williams also left. A sign of things to come?

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Distimo Adds BlackBerry and Ovi Support

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me, Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Distimo has updated its Distimo Monitor to support both BlackBerry World and Nokia’s Ovi Store. Through the Mobile Monitor, developers can check the performance of their apps as well as that of competitors.

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CTIA: Smaato Announces Symbian SDK

October 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Mobile advertising company Smaato has announced that it will make available a special advertising SDK for the Symbian platform called the Smaato Open Mobile Advertising SDK.

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Nokia’s Ovi Store Crosses 2.3 Million Daily Downloads

October 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia’s Ovi Store is growing in popularity, that’s no secret. Today, the company announced that its Ovi Store is service more than 2.3 million downloads on a daily basis.

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Samsung Departs from Symbian

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

Following in SonyEricsson’s footsteps, Samsung also announced to stop using Symbian for its smartphones. Samsung will focus on Android, Windows Phone 7 and of course its own Bada OS.

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Informa: 0.5 Billion Android Users in 2015

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Android’s growth seems unstoppable if we have to believe Informa. The analyst expects half a billion people will be using Android powered phones by 2015.

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SonyEricsson Drops Symbian Support

September 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

It seems Nokia will be the only European company to support Symbian the coming time as SonyEricsson announced that it has chosen Android above the good old Symbian platform.