symbian

Owners of iPhone most eager to recommend their phones

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

It seems iPhone and iPod owners are the most inclined to recommend their devices to friends, as latest researches reveal. A high number of iPhone users, about 91 percent, and 88 percent of iPod touch owners would gladly tell their friends to buy such devices, as January information says. At the same time, only 84 [...]

Multi-touch and visual multitasking for Symbian^3

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Symbian has opened its Mobile World Congress introductions with the presentation of Symbian^3. The new operating system, as expected from its previews, includes multi-touch, single-tap actions where they are possible and a set of home screens with widgets. A unique feature is a visual multitasking system allowing users to bring up views of active applications [...]

Skype for Symbian beta early next year

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

There was an original idea that Skype could only be used while being at home. People could use VoIP services with their computers or purchase dedicated phones to do that. However, users are more interested in Skype service on their mobile phones and if iPhone users are already able to do it, Symbian users will [...]

Nokia expected to take Symbian interface to a new level

Published on: 7th December, 2009

The Capital Markets Day gathering projected a pessimistic forecast for Nokia next year unless new developments are considered. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the company’s CEO, said that Nokia would improve the Symbian interface and take it to a higher level and also improve the user experience. The cell phone manufacturer is however expected to have a flat [...]

End of Symbian-based Nseries?

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Nokia’s N900 has recently been launched. On this occasion, the company said that it will renounce using Symbian in all Nseries services by 2012. Nowadays, Nokia has only one Maemo-based smartphone, but the company plans to quit using Symbian S60 on Nseries, in the future. The end of Symbian-based Nokia smartphones will be gradual, as [...]

Samsung and Symbian collaboration goes on

Published on: 18th November, 2009

Samsung has denied dropping Symbian in favor of the bada mobile in-house developed operating system, one day after the company’s VP, Don Joo, said that the break-up between the electronics manufacturer and Symbian is bound to happen. On November 12, 2009, the company stated that this strategy is not included in their future plans concerning [...]

Symbian – no longer desired at Samsung in 2010

Published on: 13th November, 2009

It is already clear that Symbian has no future related to Samsung smartphones. It will be completely replaced with the in-house-made operating system bada. Analysts’ forecast had Symbian use decreased to a few percents and anticipated the complete exit in 2011, but Samsung’s officials decided to eliminate Symbian use in 2010.
The replacement of Symbian with [...]

Sonny Ericsson – Windows Mobile… Break up?

Published on: 13th September, 2009

Contrary to its success derived from a partnership with Windows Mobile in order to create XPERIA X1 smartphone, it appears that the awaited XPERIA X2 will be the last Sony Ericsson product equipped with a Microsoft Windows platform. This sudden change in the approach of the organization seems to the cause of Sony Ericsson`s unconcern [...]

New Symbian Smartphone Platform Offers Massive Change

Published on: 21st August, 2009

It looks like Symbian S60 v3 is living its last days (and even its successor, Symbian v5), as the Symbian Foundation is considering a complete redesign of the operating system codename Symbian^4 (a number they have previously skipped). Qt will replace the Avkon UI engine and this leads to app incompatibility – older Symbian apps [...]

Nokia is finally looking to update its Symbian core

Published on: 14th July, 2009

Nokia prepares new Symbian UI, the HTC Sense UI and the iPhone UI looking great. Although Symbian and Nokia are technically separate, they are, in fact, the same. The touch-based S60 5th Edition is supposed to look and feel better than the S60 3rd Edition, although improvements can still be made.
Scott Weiss, User Interface Technology [...]