Here's the good news for Symbian: The open-source mobile OS remains the leading smartphone platform worldwide, capturing 36.6 percent of the international market in Q3 on the strength of unit sales in excess of 29 million, up from 18 million a year ago.
As Engadget puts it, "the other shoe just dropped" for anyone hoping that Samsung might yet be planning a Symbian^4 device or two in the future. In an email out to registered developers and on the Samsung Mobile Innovator web site, the company says that it "will discontinue its Symbian support service from December 31st 2010".
On Thursday, Samsung posted a message to its Samsung Mobile Innovator bulletin board.
Nokia's latest prototype has leaked into the wild and shows that the world's largest phone maker still knows good industrial design.
James Gosling, who is often called the Father of Java, has been chiming in on the recent litigation between Oracle and Google.
Some people became pretty worked up when independent market researcher firms Canalys and the NPD Group claimed that Android had surpassed Apple and Research in Motion to become the top smart phone in the U.S market.
I think that Iphone OS 4.0 is the best operating system.Iphone OS 4.0 is much better than Android 2.2 or Symbian 3.By the time Nokia was presented as the most backward in terms of operating system is concerned, but the Finnish company has set to work and believes in the latest version of your operating system, Symbian ^ 3, for more advanced terminal, Nokia N8.
If you have a Nokia smartphone, then the chances are that it will be running a form of Symbian as its mobile operating system. It’s the software that keeps everything going and includes many of the smart phone applications that come installed out of the box. But there’s a lot more to Nokia’s operating system of choice than meets the eye – join us after the break to find out more.
The Symbian S60 operating system hasn’t had a great reputation on high-end devices of late, with the main problem being its basic interface and slow response times.
T-Mobile plans to launch the Nokia E73, a thin Symbian smartphone with a built-in keyboard, on June 16 for $70 with a two-year contract.
