Phil Northam: Samsung's Mobile InnovatorSamsung Mobile Innovator is the latest developer support program from a Symbian OS licensee. Richard Bloor caught up with Phil Northam, the program's Global Marketing Manager and one of its founding members, to find out more.
A note from Nokia reps this week informs us that the Nokia viNe application will be rolled out of Beta soon... possibly even this week. viNe is a web service that enables users of the application to share their journeys, along with media collected along the way. As a long-time Sports Tracker user, N95 enthusiasts, and evangelist of all things mobile and geospatial, I was provided with a pre-release version of viNe - details and a complete "How To" install and use the application are provided... enjoy! Enter Nokia viNe 101
It was back in June 2008 that the E71 was officially released to the public - the selling points for the E71 were a sleek, stylish do-it-all device that came with Mail for Exchange mobile email client - pre-loaded with the Nokia E71. Actually, the device boasted much much more than these attributes as you'll see below in my findings after having the pleasure of making the E71 my main device for 3 weeks... enjoy the recap, the images and the videos!
Symbian Limited today welcomes NTT DoCoMo’s launch of the FOMA SH704i
which is based on Symbian OS™ and started shipping in Japan today.
TOKYO, Japan –27 July, 2007 – Symbian OS is the global market-leading open mobile
operating system for smartphones.
The FOMA SH704i, a “One-segment” terrestrial digital broadcasting handset with
metallic body is manufactured by Symbian customer Sharp Corporation and includes
the MOAP platform.
Symbian continues to focus on delivering a flexible, robust and open mobile operating
system which gives handset manufacturers and network operators the ability to
develop differentiated phones, faster, more easily and at lower cost for different
market segments and regions. Symbian customers that have shipped 3G phones in
Japan based on Symbian OS include Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Nokia,
Sharp, and Sony Ericsson.
The following 62 phones based on Symbian OS have shipped in Japan:
About Symbian Limited
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS,
the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones
known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and
has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across
the mobile industry. During Q1 2007, 15.9 million Symbian smartphones were sold
worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian
smartphones shipped up to 31 March 2007 to 126 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United
States, England, and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan).
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