If you’re still trying to figure out what this new, open-source Symbian will be all about, check out The Symbian Foundation unwrapped” by Rafe Blandford over at All About Symbian. Rafe knows as much about Symbian as anybody, and has posted the definitive piece on this big development.
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Archive | June, 2008
Everything You Needed To Know About The Symbian Foundation
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More On The Big Symbian News
As Russell mentioned earlier, some big news from Symbian today. Nokia’s buying the rest of Symbian that it doesn’t already own, and will then create the Symbian Foundation, in collaboration with a number of other companies, and make Symbian royalty-free and open-source.
This is, as they say, A Big Deal.
First, the multiple UIs and platforms on [...]
Rabbit Redux, Yet Again
I’ll have some more on the Symbian news in a bit, but thought I’d get this up first. Russell’s apparently a bit of a mobile history buff, and something he’s mentioned before is Hutchison’s Rabbit phone system, which it launched in May 1992… and shut down in December 1993. Rabbit was a great big cordless [...]
Check Mate for Google’s Android?
Hard on the heels of yesterday’s announcement from Google that the launch of Android would be delayed from the second quarter to the fourth, is a potentially huge one from Symbian that could make Android completely irrelevant when devices eventually do start to ship.
It’s too early to see exactly how the Symbian news will [...]
History Lesson
Time has a great photo essay on the history of the mobile phone, which is worth checking out.
This one shows Martin Cooper, widely regarded as the Father of the Mobile. The photo was taken back in 1983, although the mobile looks much smaller and sleeker than I remember them being in those days.
It’s not a [...]
When Will Facebook Take Apps Mobile?
I get a lot of thinking done in the shower. I’ll leave it at that so as not to draw any unwanted mental images, but this morning, I was washing what little hair I’ve got left and had a thought about Facebook. Since my trip to San Diego for the BREW conference (more thoughts on [...]
Mobile 2.0 Europe Event Fast Approaching
Our pal Rudy de Waele has been putting a lot of hard work into the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference on July 4 in Barcelona, and he dropped us a line to say they’ve finalized the agenda and speakers list. Tickets are selling fast, so if you’re interested, jump on them soon as the event will [...]
Reading List
I’ve seen several things worth reading over the last several days that I wanted to share…
24% of Apple iPhone users upgraded from a Motorola RAZR – SMS Text News
24% — or, almost a quarter — of those surveyed who upgraded to an iPhone, did so from a stinky Motorola RAZR.
Now I don’t have exact stats [...]
World Domination
I just thought that I’d let you all know that it was announced last week that I’ve been made Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association. I think a lot of people missed the announcement as it followed hard on the heels of the one about Chairing EMEA.
For me personally, this is huge – and [...]
Nike in MMS Scandal – Shock, Horror
I’ve been saying for a while now that MMS is slowly starting to happen, 8 long years after its launch and 7 years after the book wot I wrote and that no one bought. So it’s great to see a mega-brand getting stuck in and launching an idea that makes the most of MMS and [...]
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