The first day of the Mobile World Congress is over and all major announcements have been brought out to the media. We’re going through the key-announcements which are relevant to the Symbian world. Due to the lack of time we’ll cover these and many other topics in the next days. Nonetheless, here are the major announcements: Read the rest of this entry »
The Symbian Foundation has just announced that Symbian, the worlds most popular smartphone operating system, is now officially open source. In 2008, Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia for USD 410 million, and in April 2009 a new independent non-profit organisation called Symbian Foundation was established. The foundation includes Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. The Symbian Foundation’s decision to make its code open source means that any organisation or individual can now use and modify the code for ‘any purpose.’ Read the rest of this entry »
DigiTimes have reported that Nokia is planing to speed up the development of the Symbian platform by launching Symbian^3, which will feature multi-touch functions, in the third quarter of 2010. Apparently the Finish giants are looking to scrap Symbian^2 altogether and continue to push the Symbian development even further with the release of Symbian^4 by the end of this year.
Recently the official Symbian site launched a new webpage; countown.symbian.org, which, you guessed it, is some sort of cryptic countdown. It usded to be titeld 108 and changed to 49 now. What these numbers mean, well no one is quite sure. There is also a message in the source code of the web page reading “if you’re looking for a secret, here’s one: 108.” What do you think it could be? We’d love to hear your thoughts, so drop a comment below or join in the conversation on twitter with hash tag #symbiancountdown.
As far as we can tell this countdown refers to a major announcement
This refers to a major announcement coming soon, so please keep your eyes peeled.
At the Nokia Capital Markets Day Nokia revealed and showed how Symbian will look like next year. Apparently Nokia learned that the UI is the most important element of a smartphone. It isn’t much we got to see but that what we saw looks really good and innovative. Finally Multi touch as well as single tap will be added. More over, the Internet experience will be improved due to kinetic scrolling with 60fps instead of 15 and better flash support. Other than that simplicity is also a key factor. Thus it will be easier to create a new email account (2 instead of 4 clicks) or to jump to your favorite music. In terms of the UI’s speed it be 3 times faster. Nokia said that they will deliver these major changes in two steps. Fist, we can expect the first package before midyear and the second in winter 2010. All in all these are major milestone for this truly open operation system.
Symbian Foundation has just set up a Symbian UI Brainstorm blog in order to improve particular aspects of the user interface on Symbian devices. What they are asking for is for users to send visual suggestions on where and how the Symbian interface can be improved. So that one thing you always wished you could have different, nows your chance to write in and have your say… There are a few good suggestions already up and I’m sure there will be many more flooding in soon. Read the rest of this entry »
The Sony Ericsson Satio, also known as the Idou, has been announced just yesterday and we do have a promotion video already. The device features a 12.1 megapixel camera, Xenon-flash, a 3.5” touch-screen and a bunch more. Enjoy the video!
Here a short and good news for all Sony Ericsson lovers. According to Sony Ericsson’s german product manager Steffen Grosch the highly anticipated Idou will be released in October. As you know, the Idou features a touch-screen, a 12 megapixel camera and all other features you wish. The Idou runs on the Symbian Foundation OS and will get a new name before it will hit the markets.
The Symbian Foundation has open its gates recently. To be up to date with all news and activities related to the Symbian Foundation you can head over to the official Symbian Foundation blog. The latest post features a round table discussion with participants from Adobe, AOL, AT&T, Eclipse Foundation, Nokia, Orange, Sony Ericsson, Symbian Foundation, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Visa hosted by Lee Williams and David Wood from the Symbian Foundation.
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DigiTimes have reported that Nokia is planing to speed up the development of the Symbian platform by launching Symbian^3, which will feature multi-touch functions, in the third quarter of 2010. Apparently the Finish giants are looking to scrap Symbian^2 altogether and continue to push the Symbian development even further with the release of Symbian^4 by the end of this year.
At the Nokia Capital Markets Day Nokia revealed and showed how Symbian will look like next year. Apparently Nokia learned that the UI is the most important element of a smartphone. It isn’t much we got to see but that what we saw looks really good and innovative. Finally Multi touch as well as single tap will be added. More over, the Internet experience will be improved due to kinetic scrolling with 60fps instead of 15 and better flash support. Other than that simplicity is also a key factor. Thus it will be easier to create a new email account (2 instead of 4 clicks) or to jump to your favorite music. In terms of the UI’s speed it be 3 times faster. Nokia said that they will deliver these major changes in two steps. Fist, we can expect the first package before midyear and the second in winter 2010. All in all these are major milestone for this truly open operation system.
