eetimes.com - 9/3/2008
—
SAN FRANCISO Nokia said Tuesday (Sept. 2) that Samsung Electronics has accepted an offer from the world's No. 1 mobile handset vendor to buy out its stake in software firm Symbian, according to a Reuters report. Samsung's acceptance of Nokia's offer would remove the final remaining barrier to ...
nokia.co.uk - 9/2/2008
—
nokia.co.uk —
You are here - Nokia UK Home Search
Site search Home Buy online Find products Get support...
and software Explore services Music Store My Nokia Visit Nokia Music Store Visit Nokia Music Store Visit Nokia Music Store Buy now Nokia N96 £535.00 preorder ...
(more)
Nokia UK - Nokia on the Web
justamp.blogspot.com - 9/1/2008
—
justamp.blogspot.com —
Home Contact About feedburner Enter your email address:
Delivered by FeedBurner Nokia slider super camera phone patent...
made into reality Posted by Maximus Labels: Clones and ripoffs , Nokia , Symbian The Nokia slider super camera phone patent has ...
(more)
Just Another Mobile Phone Blog: Nokia slider super ...
slingcommunity.com - 9/10/2008
—
slingcommunity.com —
Well, this has been quite a busy day
at Sling. When it rains it pours. First, SlingPlayer...
Mobile for Symbian UIQ has been released to the public - see the press release for all the details . The UIQ handsets that will support SlingPlayer Mobile at ...
(more)
SlingPlayer 2.0, Symbian UIQ, PRO-HD & Catcher ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
Nokia buys out Samsung’s Symbian shares on road to Symbian Foundation
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Foundation, that will allow any and all developers to jump on board the Symbian-ship.
With mounting pressure from Windows Mobile, the iPhone OS, and of course Google’s Android, Nokia’s move to bring Symbian to the open-source table is logical. Nokia will have put up about $410 million to buy out all Symbian shareholders, which is no small amount. So it’s clear that Nokia is going to be backing Symbian for the foreseeable future.
[Via: EETimes]
--- Related Articles at IntoMobile: Mobile handset manufacturers ...
Samsung accepts Nokia Symbian buy-out offer
Phones Review —
... Nokia and their Symbian Foundation plans. Now that Samsung has accepted, Nokia will own the rights of all Symbian code-base.
This now sets up Nokia to hand over the code-base to the Symbian Foundation which means it will allow any and all developers to jump aboard the good ship Symbian.
Nokia has stumped up a cool $410 million to buy out all Symbian shareholders, so one can be confidant Nokia will be backing Symbian for some time.
Source – EETimes via Intomobile
...
Samsung acepta la oferta de Nokia y venderá su parte en Symbian
Movilae —
... los cambios necesarios para que la Symbian Foundation atraiga más desarrolladores que aporten innovaciones nuevas a esta cuna de ideas.
Pues sí, hay que estar preparados para competir, debe pensar sabiamente Nokia, con el iPhone, el sistema operativo Windows Mobile y la plataforma Android en camino hay que preparar la artillería, sí señores, y después de desembolsar tanto tanto dinero en la compra de todas las acciones… bueno, ¿ya tendrá la Armada Invencible?
Vía: EE Times
...
Related Content
Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS?
macnn.com 9/3/2008 — iPhone v Symbian Symbian on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year’s sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may seem high, but over the past six months, 159 different Symbian ...
OS X iPhone may overtake Symbian by 2010
electronista.com 9/3/2008 — The current rate of growth for estimated iPhone sales may lead to its operating system being more popular than Symbian in as little as two years, according to projections based on both official and estimated data. Although Symbian reports 19.6 milli...
Nokia launching a Symbian app store at MWC?
engadget.com 2/8/2009 —
Because you're not cool unless you've got an app store, Nokia is reportedly set to join the ranks of Apple , Palm , BlackBerry , Samsung , and pretty much everyone in opening a software portal for its Symbian OS. According to Mobile-Review editor ...
Samsung S60 I7110: HSDPA, WiFi, & GPS
crunchgear.com 10/27/2008 —
Samsung’s latest S60-based smartphone, the I7110, has just been announced and it comes packing with some impressive specs. The Symbian -powered phone is equipped with a gorgeous 2.6-inch AMOLED display, 3G HSDPA quadband GSM/EDGE network, ...
AT&T may use Symbian as main smartphone OS
electronista.com 12/5/2008 — AT&T; may focus almost exclusively on Symbian for its smartphones in the future, company director of next generation services Roger Smith said in a presentation later on Thursday. The executive says AT&T; has grown frustrated with the splintering of ...
Qualcomm, HP, MySpace to join Symbian camp
| Technology
reuters.com 2/12/2009 — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Qualcomm ( QCOM.O ), MySpace ( NWSA.O ) and 12 more companies joined the Symbian camp on Thursday, giving the mobile operating system larger scale than Google's ( GOOG.O ) Android in the handset software battleground. The focus of ...
fring adds support for Nokia E66, Symbian 9.3 based devices
intomobile.com 8/22/2008 — fring has recently announced support for more devices.
First, they said the stylish business slider Nokia E66 is now on the list of supported devices. Soon afterwards, they posted Symbian 9.3-based devices are now also on the list. More ...
Symbian planning two OS updates per year
electronista.com 3/13/2009 — The Symbian Foundation late Thursday outlined a release schedule for its core mobile OS that should impact its future. Each version will take just six months between being feature-complete and being "hardened," or brought to a reliable and finished ...
Follow GadgetBlips on Twitter
