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.
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...
Symbian also announced a new interface from its subsidiary UIQ, allowing pen-based, touch-screen phone use, as well as a deal for its OS to be used by Arima, a vendor little-known outside Asia but Taiwan's second largest handset-maker with...
Symbian said it has no plans to make its brand well-known to consumers, even happy to sit invisibly behind user interface platforms such as Series 60 from Nokia and UIQ. UK-based Symbian has reported strong metrics, not least year-on-year shipments...
In a letter to Palm developers, Palm CEO Ed Colligan said: "I'm writing to you today because I'm concerned by the number of posts I've read that suggest that Palm's support of Palm OS is either wavering or short-lived.
OS maker Symbian has today announced it is to transform into a not-for-profit foundation - The Symbian Foundation - uniting the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) OSes and creating one open mobile software platform aimed at driving innovation in...