Archive for the ‘Platforms: Symbian’ Category

Symbian Expects Significant Growth next Quarter

March 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The Symbian Foundation expects that it's market share will get a huge boost next quarter as the operating system is finally going open source. It expects to be embedded in more low end handsets.

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Symbian Foundation Memberships Free for All

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | 2 Comments »

Ever wanted to mess with one of the biggest smartphone platforms in the hope to influence the future of it? The Symbian Foundation has just put documents online for everybody that wishes to join.

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Symbian UIQ Files for Bankruptcy

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

We already reported that all companies that once used Symbian's UIQ platform, have abandoned the Symbian UIQ company. Since Nokia announced that it will integrate UIQ's best parts into S60, it was obvious that the company behind UIQ was set to die.

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All AT&T Branded Phones go Symbian in 2009?

December 7th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

AT&T, one of the bigger operators in the U.S. Market has slipped some news that it is looking to standardize it's mobile phone offering based on the Symbian smartphone platform.

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Symbian Explains UIQ, MOAPS & S60 Future

November 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

After the news that UIQ was abandoned by SonyEricsson and Motorola, a lot of developers feared that a beautiful platform was going to waste. Well, no need to worry just yet…

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UIQ Dies

October 28th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

It’s consolidation time again. This time we aren’t going to announce a game developer that went belly up. This time we say goodbye to a complete platform and it’s called UIQ.

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Ruby on Symbian

October 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Symbian Research and Pragmaticomm have released V1.9 of Ruby for Symbian based smartphones. With the release of Ruby, a new group of developers are expected to start developing mobile games and applications for the Symbian platforms.

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N-Gage Industry Insider Launches

July 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Ngage
Nokia has launched yet another initiative to support mobile game
developers. Next to Forum Nokia Pro, it now also launched N-Gage
Industry Insider.

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First Symbian Foundation Devices in 2010

June 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Symbianos
This week, there was a lot of fuzz about Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian
in order to form the Symbian Foundation. Today, we got hold of data
about their timeline.

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Symbian Goes Open

June 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Symbianos
Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola and NTTDoCoMo shared their intentions to
turn Symbian into an open mobile software platform, inline with Nokia’s
acquisition plan.