Symbian is not dead yet, in spite of having lost support from Samsung and Sony Ericsson. It appears that the platform is still evolving and now it has reached the point where it’s migrating to new hardware. Symbian Foundation announced the SYMBEOSE project, the name standing for “Symbian – the Embedded Operating System for Europe”. SYMBEOSE...
Last we heard, the Symbian Foundation announced that Symbian is now available as an open source platform, with the entire software being published under fully open license. Now, Symbian makes the headlines again, this time thanks to Symbian^3, that got detailed on the official blog of the platform. Here’s a short video showing what the novelty...
A bunch of Symbian^4 screenshots have just appeared online, courtesy of Scott Weiss, UI Technology Manager at Symbian Foundation. These images were published to the My Nokia Blog first and videos should also be available soon on Symbian’s website. Weiss claims that Symbian^4 brings a lot of innovations, like the menu bar, persistent back button...
The Symbian Foundation has recently announced that the complete Symbian platform is available for download now and use under open source licenses. Here’s a video explaining what the innovation of this initiative really is, explained by Chris Davidson from the Symbian Foundation. All Symbian platform source code is now available as open source...
Symbian hasn’t been doing so well lately, mostly because Apple and the Android Alliance have taken away quite a lot of its market share. For example, in Q2 Symbian held 51% of the global smartphone OS market share, an impressive feat, but not as impressive as the 57% of last year’s second quarter. However, there are people interested in...
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...
We’ve heard talks about a Samsung Android phone and we’ve even seen one, followed by a similar LG initiative and recently Motorola and Huawei joined the gang of companies interested in working with this platform. Now, Nokia steps in, according to the Guardian who claims that the phone manufacturer will reveal a touchscreen Android device...
Eldar Murtazin, Mobile-review.com editor claims that Nokia is about to launch its very own App Store, that will get introduced next week, at Mobile World Congress 2009. Rumours claim that the app portal is not 100% ready yet, but what we do know is that distribution and revenue sharing model (with the app developers) looks pretty appealing. This might...
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,...
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