Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

Nokia and China Mobile Agree on Ovi Store

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia and China Mobile have agreed to have Nokia’s Ovi Store pre-installed China Mobile’s Nokia devices. Consumers can browse and download from the store without data charges from the operator.

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AE10: The Smartphone and the Consumer

March 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Ed Achterberg from TelecomPaper held a keynote about the Dutch market for smartphones. It is clear that consumers are still not understanding the difference between hard- and firmware.

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Ovi Generates 1.5 Million Downloads/day

March 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Nokia’s Ovi Store is growing in popularity. While we announced the store reaching an average of 1 million downloads a day only months ago, Ovi is now at an 1.5 million average.

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Silverlight Hits Symbian

March 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Silverlight, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

In the shadow of the Windows Phone 7 Series new, Microsoft has also released a beta version of Silverlight for Symbian. The Beta is aimed at touchscreen devices like the N97 and 5800 from Nokia.

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Smaato: Windows Mobile Overtaking iPhone on Advertising

March 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

The key to monetizing free mobile games is in-game purchases or showing ads to your gamers. Though the iPhone has been dominant in this market over the past months, Windows Mobile has started to overtake Apple.

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CeBit: Nokia C5 Brings Symbian to the S40 Demographic

March 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Nokia has unveiled their new C5. Though we normally don’t cover device launches, this is probably the first device that will bring the Symbian OS to the Series 40 demographic.

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MWC: Symbian Foundation Shows Symbian^3

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Symbian has revealed the third generation of the Open Source OS called Symbian^3. One of the most important aspects will be the strong graphical overhaul for the UI that should make it more attractive for the consumer.

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MWC: Symbian Joins Open Screen Project

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Another big win for Adobe today as the Symbian Foundation announced to join the Open Screen Project. The goal of the project is to create a single platform for mobile development that will work on any platform)

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Today, Symbian Goes Open Source (For Real)

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Months ago, Nokia formed the Symbian Foundation to house the Symbian OS and make it an Open Source OS. Today, four months earlier than expected, the sourcecode has been put online.

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IDC: Android to be 2nd Mobile OS by 2013

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Linux, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WebOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

IDC expects Android to be the second biggest smartphone operating system by 2013. By that time, there will be over 390 Million devices in the market that have Google’s OS installed.