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Articles tagged with: Symbian and Nokia,
Asian Handset Vendor to be First with Symbian 3 Based Phone
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Symbian Foundation Launches App Store
The symbian Foundation has announced the launch of symbian Horizon, an app store for symbian developers. Users can now sign up for the program to have their applications listed in the symbian Horizon Directory, processed through symbian Signed, and published to a growing list of application store partners. more
Related Tags: app-store, symbian-foundation, three, option, global-mobile
Nokia Adding Support for Microsoft Software to its Smartphones
Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to port Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia's symbian based smartphones. Starting from next year, Nokia intends to start shipping Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile on its smartphones, followed by other Office applications and related software and services in the future. more
Related Tags: nokia, microsoft, microsoft-office, stephen-elop
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by Ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
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Related Tags: app-store, ovum, smartphone, nokia, google, microsoft, sony, windows, google-android, os, cagr, 2g
Nokia's CEO Outlines Vision for the Future
Today at its Annual General Meeting, Nokia President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo outlined the company's future strategy. "Nokia is fundamentally changing its business model to transform both the company and the industry. While we continue to compete with the traditional mobile device manufacturers, we also are dealing with new competitors entering the market from the PC and Internet industries," he said. more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
Related Tags: android, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, wimax, motorola, eu, w-cdma, ict, smartphones, tim, cdma, hspa, ericsson, lg, infonetics-research, open-source, wimax,, gsm, operating-system, os, apps
Nokia getting on top of handset media portability
Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum
Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the
fifth edition of its S60 platform for symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the
problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An
important addition to the core is Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA)
format, which largely completes Nokia's audio codec support. However, some
gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and
free, Ogg family.
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Nokia, Qualcomm Arguments Come to Head in Delaware Court
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Nokia and Qualcomm begin a key trial on Wednesday that could bring the long-running rivals closer towards a resolution, potentially determining the fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty payments and setting the tone for how technology standards bodies are created. more
Related Tags: android, google, intel, european-commission, wcdma, qualcomm, wind, tim, patents, operating-system, leo, delaware, option
Nine New Members for the Symbian Foundation
Following Nokia's proposal to buy out its fellow shareholders in the symbian mobile OS company and release it as an open source platform - the company has now announced that nine more companies have joined the symbian Foundation. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, semiconductor, texas-instruments, samsung, docomo, texas, lg, sony, open-source, symbian-foundation, os, motorola,, marvell
UPDATE: Nokia, Mobile Cos to Create Symbian Foundation
Nokia, Tuesday said it will acquire the remaining stake in symbian it doesn't already own and with a range of partners create the symbian Foundation, an open source model for the symbian wireless operating system. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, microsoft, texas-instruments, samsung, smartphones, driving, docomo, texas, apple, motorola, lg, blackberry, panasonic, sony, open-source, samsung-electronics, siemens, operating-system, license-fees, symbian-foundation, olli-pekka-kallasvuo, os
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