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Symbian UI update expected in the fall of 2011

Published on: 16th March, 2011

As said by the Dutch site AllAboutPhones, Marc Driessen, Product Manager at Nokia Netherlands, has recently confirmed that a new major user Symbian interface update is about to come out this fall. There is also a smaller update planned for the summer. The larger, more important update is expected to offer a pull-down status bar [...]

Canalys research shows Symbian overthrown by Android as top smartphone operating system

Published on: 7th February, 2011

Researchers at Canalys hinted at a historic milestone related to smartphones by claiming that Android had overtaken Symbian as a best-selling platform. With 32.9 percent of shipped smartphones during the fall, Google’s operating system passed Nokia, which slipped from 44.4 percent to only 30.6 percent. Although the Finnish phone maker still leads as the most [...]

While Android and iPhone go up, BlackBerry and Symbian share crashes

Published on: 17th November, 2010

As Gartner says, Symbian has lost an important part of its smartphone market share, precisely more than a sixth. The platform is almost exclusively used by Nokia and fell to 36.6 percent this year, from 44.6 percent a year before. The BlackBerry platform of Research in Motion, although having record high sales, dropped sharply from [...]

iPhone jumps over BlackBerry for second place in smartphones

Published on: 31st October, 2010

The 14.1 million iPhones sold by Apple made it jump over the BlackBerry’s market share, as Strategy Analytics say. The total of 77.1 million smartphones shipped in the summer helped the iPhone to leap to 18.3 percent of the whole market and pushed Research in Motion down to third place, with 12.1 million phones and [...]

Symbian CEO’s resignation effective immediately

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Symbian CEO Lee Williams has resigned his position as an Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation and his resignation is effective immediately. Williams only gave personal reasons for his departure and will be replaced by the CFO of the Foundation, Tim Holbrow. Multiple blows have affected Symbian recently and some of its main proponents at [...]

Symbian not included anymore in Sony Ericsson’s future plans

Published on: 30th September, 2010

In a recent interview, Sony Ericsson has put an end to any future plans for Symbian on the company’s handsets. Jan Uddenfeldt, the new CTO, explained for Sweden’s NyTechnik that his company had no plans to make Symbian smartphones after the existing Vivaz lineup. Most of the company’s efforts are now placed on Android, with [...]

Mobile analytics company bought by Nokia for improving application quality

Published on: 24th August, 2010

On August 20, 2010, Nokia declared that it has bought out Motally in a bid in order to improve its mobile applications experience. The eight-person company’s technology is able to show usage patterns on both websites and in native applications in order to identify where these could be optimized. The plan is to keep supporting [...]

Fring for iPhone 4 allows video calling with Android and Symbian

Published on: 14th July, 2010

On July 8, 2010, Fring updated its namesake iPhone application (available for free in the App Store) to facilitate some of the first multi-platform video calling on Apple’s iPhone 4. This new addition is using the front camera, even over 3G, for two-way video and is able to support it with any device which can [...]

Nokia’s new N9 to have 4-inch display and MeeGo

Published on: 8th July, 2010

A recent look at the future Nokia flagship, the N9, comes to confirm the company’s promise concerning the Symbian S60 OS, which will apparently not be the default operating system, but only a placeholder for the MeeGo software. The news put to a rest a previous report, confirming some of the new specs too. The [...]

The iPhone hurts Nokia and grows to 18 percent of the European market of smartphones

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Recent data from comScore show Apple ranked second in the European market of smartphones in a period shorter than three years. The company has grown to 18 percent of the core European countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain, starting from scratch. It has maintained Microsoft at 13 percent, Research in Motion at [...]

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