The one-size-fits-all vision behind wireless PDAs and Microsoft's smartphone initiative, a vision carried over from the homogenous world of PCs, is doomed to remain a niche in the wireless market, said Peter Zapf, president of mobile phones for...
At the end of Q3 2003, ten phones from four Symbian OS licensees were shipping worldwide. Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during the third quarter of this year, which...
Most major handset makers, including Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson, have licensed the Symbian OS and also own stakes in the company. The mobile phone industry will sell 150 million smart phones in 2008, 15 times this year's sales, with...
Work on the Symbian OS kernel is ongoing, with security in mind, and version 9.0 will start appearing on devices at the end of this year with improved platform security features. Mobile phone operating-system maker Symbian has reacted to growing...
Symbian OS is the most popular operating system for smart phones, including those sold by market leader Nokia. Two-thirds of all smart phones shipped in the third quarter of last year ran the Symbian OS, according to recent Gartner research.
In the first release of the software available this spring, the new Unified Mobile Communicator will work on smart phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Symbian OS or RIM's BlackBerry operating system.