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2010-02-04
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Originally Posted by sandybeach
I agree . . . moving the clock is a recent Symbian firmware update feature?
To be honest i think of Symbian as the old warhouse that should be just put out of its missery.
It was a nightmare for developers to code for and it should of been more how developing an app for Maemo is now, nice and easy with the ability to engage the community.
Go with Maemo and forget Symbian is what i say !!
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Symbian CEO Lee Williams Tweets Steve Jobs and Bill Gates about Symbian going open source.
Funny 35 second video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtiJ...ayer_embedded#
Funny 35 second video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtiJ...ayer_embedded#
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2010-02-04
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The thread "Symbian goes fully open source" with ten posts has been merged into this thread.
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2010-02-04
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The really strange thing about Symbian roadmap is that Symbian ^4 only supports touchscreen and touchscreen+QWERTY devices. That leaves E7x/Blackberry and N95 like devices out. Both form factors are still big sellers, and at least E7x/Blackberry form factor will continue to sell big for foreseeable future
Does nokia really expect that S60 3rd Edition is gonna be viable platform for high end business devices around 2012? Is that Microsoft corporate software that's supposed to be big selling point for Eseries really gonna run on a E74 that's based on S60 3rd? Even if non-touch UI is on roadmap for Symbian ^5 it's propably gonna be 2012 at earliest before that problem goes away.
Does nokia really expect that S60 3rd Edition is gonna be viable platform for high end business devices around 2012? Is that Microsoft corporate software that's supposed to be big selling point for Eseries really gonna run on a E74 that's based on S60 3rd? Even if non-touch UI is on roadmap for Symbian ^5 it's propably gonna be 2012 at earliest before that problem goes away.
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2010-02-04
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Rauha, I don't see why future eseries cant have touch+qwerty, that would be even better IMO than just qwerty
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2010-02-04
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Originally Posted by Rauha
They just have to make a device with the same form factor as the Palm Pre.
The really strange thing about Symbian roadmap is that Symbian ^4 only supports touchscreen and touchscreen+QWERTY devices. That leaves E7x/Blackberry and N95 like devices out. Both form factors are still big sellers, and at least E7x/Blackberry form factor will continue to sell big for foreseeable future
Does nokia really expect that S60 3rd Edition is gonna be viable platform for high end business devices around 2012? Is that Microsoft corporate software that's supposed to be big selling point for Eseries really gonna run on a E74 that's based on S60 3rd? Even if non-touch UI is on roadmap for Symbian ^5 it's propably gonna be 2012 at earliest before that problem goes away.
Edit: In fact, they almost have it in the E66 (http://www.seguridad-vigilancia.com/.../nokia-e66.jpg). They just have to make it a bigger, touch enabled screen and the keyboard QWERTY and presto!
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2010-02-04
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seeing as HTC seems to position itself as more of JUST a hardware manufacturer and makes phones with several OS flavors on it, i wouldn't mind seeing some third party put out a symbian 3 OS on some nice htc hardware with some slicked up UI. Could be a winner
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2010-02-04
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Originally Posted by mrojas
the point is that a not so small group of people prefers non-touchscreen devices even in the higher price segment. they're just easier to operate. nokia abandons these customers if both of their smartphone OSs are touchscreen only.
Edit: In fact, they almost have it in the E66 (http://www.seguridad-vigilancia.com/.../nokia-e66.jpg). They just have to make it a bigger, touch enabled screen and the keyboard QWERTY and presto!
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2010-02-04
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Wow, didn't see this one happening...
Read more over at Betanews
How does this affect Maemo, which is also open source? Bold move by Nokia though!
The world's most widely-used smartphone platform is now completely free and open. Today, the Symbian Foundation announced that the entire 33 million lines of Symbian^3 code is now free under the Eclipse Public License.
The platform was only sort of open source before...sort of. When the Symbian Foundation launched in 2009, parts of the source code were made available to members of the foundation under a transitional license. But now, all of the third-party intellectual property has been removed from Symbian^3 and it can be downloaded and used freely by anyone.
How does this affect Maemo, which is also open source? Bold move by Nokia though!
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Symbian as a OS is one of the most complete smartphone operating systems there is and that's why there is many who bought N900 with not really knowing what it was just and just naturally thought it will have all the Email and phone functions from Symbian, that's just not the case yet.
Symbian is going to be Nokia's mass market OS alread this year. Showing already in the leaked C series phones.