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Articles tagged with: Symbian and Open Source
Symbian Releases More Source Code as Open Source
The symbian Foundation has announced a significant milestone in its plan to move the entire symbian platform into Open Source - the release of the platform microkernel (EKA2) and supporting development kit under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). 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
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Vodafone, Sony Ericsson Join Google Phone Alliance
The Open Handset Alliance - which develops the Google backed Android operating system for smartphones - has announced fourteen new members, including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. more
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Nokia Launches Upgraded S60 Smartphone OS
Today sees the introduction of Nokia's S60 5th Edition, the latest release of the smartphone platform, S60 on symbian OS. With S60 5th Edition, the user interface is extended by the introduction of touch and with full support for tactile feedback. Enhanced display resolution support and a new Widescreen mode further compliments the touch UI and enables engaging visual experiences. more
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Open Source OS Assists Chinese Development of the Smart Phone Market
A report from Chinese research firm, CCID Consulting shows that the sales volume of smart phones in China's market in the first half of 2008 reached 15.671 million sets, up 32.1% over H1 2007, and the sales revenue reached 37.74 billion Yuan, up 25.7% over H1 2007. more
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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
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Microsoft faces Pressure from Smartphone OS Alliances
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- With the smartphone world increasingly shifting toward an open operating system model, Microsoft and its Windows Mobile face another obstacle in trying to penetrate the consumer market. more
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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
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Symbian Components to be Offered as Open Source Software
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo announced today their intent to unite symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. more
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Nearly 20% of Mid- and High-End Mobile Devices Will Run a Linux Operating System by 2013
Linux, which has been much maligned by symbian and Microsoft as a non-starter in the handset operating system market, is set to see strong growth as issues with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated. The growing momentum behind the LiMo Foundation initiative, as well as the marketing boost that has been realized from the entry of GoogleĆ's Android solution has been further enhanced by NokiaĆ's support of the Maemo solution and its purchase of Trolltech. more
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