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ZDNet Symbian to ease app building for China Mobile
The Symbian Foundation and China's biggest mobile operator will provide a streamlined way for developers to submit apps to China Mobile's store and will promote the TD-SCDMA standard
ZDNet Qualcomm targets open source with new subsidiary
The Qualcomm Innovation Center will focus on the hardware optimisation of technologies such as Android and Symbian
ZDNet Skyfire arrives for Symbian touchphones
The updated mobile browser provides a full-touch interface for Symbian's S60 fifth edition smartphones and promises a better UI for third edition handsets
All About Symbian Video: Anssi Vanjoki on the N97 and Symbian^3
At Mobile World Congress, I sat down with Anssi Vanjoki, EVP of Markets at Nokia, to talk about the Nokia N97. The highly anticipated device was released last summer and while it has been a commercial success for Nokia, it has been subject to a great deal of criticism from consumers for its software and underpowered hardware.
With the release of version 20 and 21 of the firmware, many of the software issues have been resolved. In the video, Anssi Vanjoki acknowledges the issues and explains how Nokia has l...
All About Symbian Video: Anssi Vanjoki on Symbian, MeeGo, N95 form factor
In part 2 of our MWC interview with Anssi Vanjoki, EVP of Markets at Nokia, there is discussion of how moving Symbian into the Symbian Foundation stops the platform being "fractioned by individual product programs [within Nokia]". We also touch on whether there is a future for the 'Nokia N95 form factor' smartphone.
In the second half, Anssi Vanjoki talks about Nokia's software strategy and how the common elements of Qt and common Web Runtime provide a unifying layer between Symbian and MeeGo. He then touc...
All About Symbian Video: Anssi Vanjoki on the future for Symbian and MeeGo
In part 3 of our MWC interview with Anssi Vanjoki, EVP of Markets at Nokia, we discuss the future. How "for the great masses of the world, the first computer they will have will be an extension of the phone based on Symbian". How MeeGo's rich contextual crossing of the real and virtual world will use a map-based user interface and will create "the possibility for people to live in the media."
In the second half, we hear about the three "buckets" (types) of competitors, the importance of open standard...
Bluetooth News Nokia readies the C5 S60 smartphone
240x320) screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 50MB of built-in storage, a microSD slot (2GB card included), and Bluetooth, USB connectivity. THe Nokia C5 runs Symbian OS v9.3, is pre-loaded with Ovi Maps 3.0, Nokia Messaging, and is going to be priced at 135
InfoWorld Symbian Foundation faces up to challenges
What was billed as a roundtable discussion for members of the new Symbian Foundation turned into an opportunity for them to lay out the challenges and threats to their fledgling group.
BWE Magazine HelloSoft Announces the Availability of Its VoIP Solution for LTE Devices
HelloSoft announced the extension of its carrier proven VoIP and Voice Call Continuity (VCC) solution suite to future 4G-LTEdevices. HelloSoft's VoIP and VCC solution allows seamless handoff of voice calls between VoIP on the 4G LTE network and circuit switched voice systems that run on cellular 2G and 3G networks. Supporting VoIP over LTE (VoLTE) extends HelloSoft's recently released, award winning VoIP and VCC Convergence Client Software platform for Android mobile devices, which also supports handsets r...
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