Posts Tagged ‘S60’

Symbian Sells 298.000 S60 Phones a Day

August 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Thought 200.000 new Androids a day is a lot? Symbian says they are still miles ahead of Google as Symbian sees 298.000 new S60 based smartphones being activated every single day.

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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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S60 is Ending

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

As part of the new plans for the Symbian Foundation, Nokia has announced that it will pull the plug on S60 by the end of June 2009.

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Nokia Moves Widsets to Ovi

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Following the closure of Mosh, Nokia is now taking another big step in their portal strategy as it will close down their Widsets service and integrate it into the Ovi Store.

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Samsung Mobile Applications Launched

February 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Samsung Mobile is launching their Samsung Mobile Applications app store in the United Kingdom. “Samsung Mobile Innovator” members will be able to start selling their apps and games.

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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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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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S60 J2me: Security Prompting Update

October 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me | 1 Comment »

Unlike native Symbian games, J2me games have always been bothered with tight security restrictions on S60 devices, leading to endless popups, time and time again.

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