If you’re among the people who still use Windows XP, you must have grown fond of this OS, so you might want to take it with you on the road, perhaps even on your Nokia handset. If this sounds impossible, wait till you see what a very smart developer did (iXP and MyPhone running on Nokia 5800 XM) and showed the world in the video below: The iXP...
Symbian Foundation has recently announced that it’s going to release its first OS pretty soon, in a beta version, in the next weeks. This software is an open source operating system that will hit retail in the first half of 2010. Here’s a video showing the new Symbian’s graphic architecture in action: The first Symbian Foundation...
Spb Software have just announced that the Spb TV app is also supported on Symbian S60 3.1 devices (Feature Pack 1), not only on Windows Mobile smartphones. Just like the WM version, Spb TV for Symbian S60 is a user-friendly piece of software that comes with on-screen controls for options like volume, brightness, picture in picture mode (channel previews),...
If you’re a Symbian device user, one thing’s for sure: you lack a decent Twitter client. There are two options at this point: either you wait for the providential Symbian App Store or keep your eyes on the Fring Twitter add-on for Symbian. The software is not ready for public download yet, but you can test it right now. Find out how, after...
After seeing the mobile Firefox early developer version get released for Nokia’s Internet tablet, we recently got word that the long-awaited browser will be ready to run on your favorite Symbian devices starting April 2009. That’s when the Mobile Firefox team and the Symbian engineers will have finished working on the software and will probably...
Nokia just made it official that it acquired Symbian Limited. The handset producer now has a valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that it did not already own. Almost unanimous acceptance. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices....
Nokia claimed yesterday that it plans to close the acquisition of Symbian till the end of this year. We remind you that this is a $339.9 million transaction we’re dealing with, announced in June, when the Finnish giant said it plans on buying the shareholders of Symbian. They intend to make the software of the British company available royalty-free,...
While some of us could have sworn that Windows Mobile was dead and buried by now, the figures published by Canalys for the Q3 2008 smartphone market show that Symbian’s in deep trouble. It had a 21.5% drop of its marketshare and a 12.4% drop in shipments, as you can see in the table below: Windows Mobile surprised everyone with a 42.9% growth...
As Android and OHA grow, so does the Symbian Foundation and since the Symbian Smartphone Show started a couple of days ago in London, it’s time for some fresh news. We found out that Symbian Foundation welcomed 12 new members, companies like ARM, CieNET, Flander, FUJISOFT, Huawei, Inmote, InnoPath Software, Red Bend, Scalado, Symsource, TRANGO...
Natasha Lomas, from silicon.com recently interviewed Nigel Clifford, Symbian CEO in an attempt to find out if the mobile OS champ, Symbian can keep its title. We remind you that earlier this year, Symbian announced that it would take an open source approach, relying on the friendly developers all over the world. Clifford impresses right from the start,...
