The underlying story is that Nokia controls over a third of the world handset business and is committed to the Symbian OS, even if it is playing with different user interfaces, so there are questions as to whether Microsoft can get to where it...
Other Japanese vendors to have licensed the Symbian OS include Kenwood, Panasonic, Sanyo and Sony. Fujitsu has announced it has licensed the Symbian operating system which it will place at the heart of future 3G phones.
Operating systems from Symbian, PalmSource and Microsoft combine the functions of a cell phone and a personal digital assistant. Monday's announcement from Samsung means all five of the world's top phone makers - Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Samsung...
The mobile phone industry will sell 150 million smart phones in 2008, 15 times this year's sales, with the Symbian OS leading the smart phone operating system market, according to a report by ABI Research.
Several big players are currently competing to establish themselves in the fuzzy area where computing and wireless devices come together: Microsoft with its Windows CE-based devices, PalmSource with Palm OS-based wireless handhelds and smartphones...
True, Palm does have a ragtag bunch of manufacturers in its stable but smart devices based on the Symbian OS are going to dominate this space. Symbian got off to a bit of a slow start after a big fanfare surrounding its founding but now it’s...