SE,Nokia,Moto and Samsung to unify the symbian platform

[MetalheadGautham]

Nokia has bought Symbian !!

funny thing is, they even bough Qtopia.

 

[Pathik]

^ Yea and Trolltech was involved in LiMo. They are trying to bring it all together to create a mega platform to beat Android.
Amd, the 7710 had a modded version of UIQ (s90) which IMO was better than the SE UIQ fones of that time.

 

[dreamcatcher]

^^but it was an UIQ.and dont tell that dude..the P800 and the P910 were bestsellers during their time..The p990 was a complete sellout..the P1i however couldnt really live up to the expectations...Let's see what happens..If android hits the maret, the greatest loser would be nokia.with 100% stakes in symbian, nokia has to go for broke now...

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Dreamcatches aka amd64, how are you brother... Didnt know you changed your id...
How is the phone...pm dude...


On topic...

I hate symbian..
Now i think the top gainer wit this colab will be the worst ui platform companies like moto , samsung etc..to an extent even nokia....

I dont know why they did this?

 

[Indyan]

I really wish SE would start using Symbian in more phones.

With nokia u get the power of Symbian even in a Rs 7k phone!

 

[slugger]

Nokia buys out Symbian. Makes it royalty-free

Nokia opens up Symbian to compete against Google Android

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform.

To enable the Foundation, Nokia today announced plans to acquire the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own and then contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Foundation.

To make Symbian a royalty-free open platform is a smart, possibly the only move to give Symbian a chance in the future. Symbian is here to stay for a while because of the huge install base on mobile phones. I said though before that mobile operating systems without a Desktop life are a dying bread. Users want one eco system as data exchange becomes more seemless and easier. You can already choose between Microsoft, Apple and Linux.
To make Symbian open is of course a direct hit in the direction of Google Android. Android hit some delays as reported yesterday. The Nokia Symbian announcement is another issue Google has to deal with.
Besides Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo, AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone are planning to establish the Symbian Foundation.

The Symiban Foundation is expected to start operating during the first half of 2009, subject to the closing of the acquisition of Symbian Ltd by Nokia.
Via the Symbian Foundation site.

bad day for google i guess. first they get sued and now this

oops..posted without seeing
Mods please do the needful..sorry for the trouble

Edited by Indyan : Threads Merged

 

[dreamcatcher]

^^yes but that does othing but undermine the value of symbian..after using phones like the n70 and the n72 people have been seen fleeing from the platform more often than not.

Actually its a win-win situation for SE and Moto here.If the whole new symbian thing does not do well.Its curtains for Nokia.but SE has its feature phones parallely runnig with the UIQ series and WinMo.So if android does well.i dont think SE will be too hesitant to part platforms and move to Android.Nokia on the other hand are shelling out huge money to gain trumps over the Mac OS, WinMo and the Android.

Irony is that..SE is contributing to a platform which will be a direct competitor to its XPERIA serie phones.

 

[krazzy]

This whole collab thing has gone over my head. I think I'll need to read a few more article before commenting anything.

BTW 7710 did not have UIQ. It had Symbian Series 90 OS which is completely different from UIQ.

 

[Third Eye]

Nokia saves SE,now i have better choice over UIQ.

 

[dreamcatcher]

nokia saves SE??are you kiddin me??

The whole thing about this merger was to enable nokia bring out a touchscreen phone which shall be a direct competitior against the apple iphone and the Android OS.Nokia which has not been able to make a touch screen phone yet, needs UIQ to stand up to the future market.So its actually the other way round.

And well..Se was not dependent on its smartphons for their share anyway..

 

[krates]

now in this

the competition will be in between google and nokia making ground for SE and MOTO to rise high.

But that's for sure now symbian phones will soon be available for 5 k in the market.

According to me google will face some problems in the beginning as of shortage of apps but will soon sue nokia smartphones as for me google is internet god

 

[rockthegod]

but android is slowing down

I am using Android with a few apps on my Tilt for a month....

 

[krates]

^^^ how come you got android
which phone are you using ?

 

[rockthegod]

^^I am using AT&T Tilt a.k.a HTC Kaiser/TyTn2. There is already a Android repository available (and getting updated every day) and some ingenuous guys over at XDA-devs actually was able to compile the code into a working Android OS, which is able to run on Windows Mobile... till now they have been able to get the Touchscreen working, the phone keys working, quite a few apps working.. but they are currently on their way to port a phone radio onto kaiser, after which it will be able to make and receive calls. Apart from that, the OS is working fine. Android is sleek and extremely fast.

 

[praka123]

^awww!you should have posted a small review with some snaps !

 

[rockthegod]

^^Ok I will do that later today !!!!

UPDATE:
OK.. finally posted my preview of Android here:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=867694#post867694