In related news, PalmSource, guardian of the Palm OS that is now selling more quickly on smart phones than traditional PDAs, introduced its updated Treo 650 to Europe. It also announced another handset from GSDPA, new applications and software to...
Handset makers that back the Symbian operating system, such as Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia, can build phones with AOL features more quickly if the development work already has been done, Symbian spokesman Peter Bancroft said.
The critical metric for mobile operators has long been ARPU - average revenue per user - and Orange, prominent with several cutting-edge devices, has declared smart phones such as the SPV, using the Microsoft OS, and Handspring Treo 600, based on...
PalmSource, guardian of the Palm OS and other software that is increasingly being used in smart phones as much as PDAs, has long boasted of the number of applications available for the platform and Palm remains the PDA market leader.
Nokia smart phones such as the 6600, based on the Symbian operating system and Series 60 interface, are undoubtedly at the start of a growth curve, and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile advances with its contract-manufactured SPV (also only on Orange...
He cited reasons including Palm software's ease-of-use, a commitment to Java, the new OS - which supports fast, ARM-based processors, an area where Microsoft has had a lead - and a strong and growing developer community.