Obviously very popular smartphone
Nokia to skip Symbian v2 to v3 in 3Q10, says Nokia Taiwan executive
Nokia plans to speed up the development of the Symbian platform by jumping over version 2 to offer version 3 featuring multi-touch functions in the third quarter of 2010 and then version 4 in late 2010 or early 2011, according to Michael Hsu, general manager of Nokia Taiwan.
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Smartphones a Hot Seller, Up 39 Percent in Q4
Thanks to a combination of technical breakthroughs making mobile devices cheaper and Apple making them cool, no one wants just a ‘cell phone’ any more. How long will the solid growth continue?
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What to expect from open-source Symbian (Q&A)
Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams talks about the open-sourcing of its mobile OS and whether to expect a Symbian-based tablet.
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Symbian: It’s Really Free, Baby
The Symbian Foundation has finished the project to take its market-leading smartphone operating system open-source, calling it “the largest in software history.”
Read more on Unstrung.com
Smartphones Evidently Quite Popular
The fourth quarter was a record one for smartphone sales. Research firm IDC reports that the industry shipped 54.5 million of the devices during the period. That’s a 39 percent increase year-over-year and one that from which most of the top smartphone peddlers benefited — particularly Apple .
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