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Fujitsu Plays Smart With Symbian
News Device maker Fujitsu on Tuesday said it has developed the first mobile phone for 3G networks based on Symbian, an operating system backed by Nokia, Motorola and other wireless leaders. Microsoft's mobile phone software hasn't been incorporated into...
[December 11, 2002, 6:46]
AOL Services To Run On Symbian Smartphones
News AOL and Symbian, a developer of advanced mobile phone operating systems, have announced a deal to bring AOL services to more mobile phone subscribers. The deal is a sign of the intensifying competition between makers and designers of smartphones...
[April 25, 2003, 8:25]
Symbian Foundation Launch: What Members Said
News Representatives of the major mobile-phone manufacturers joined mobile-operating-system vendors and even operators on Tuesday to announce the Symbian Foundation. In the past, phone makers had to think about which user interface and operating-system...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
Motorola Announces Mid-range Linux Phones
News Motorola announced a new step this week in its plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding use of the open source operating system to midrange phones. The E895 is a clamshell design that uses a version of Linux from...
[July 4, 2005, 9:35]
Linux To Power Most Motorola Phones
News Motorola will begin selling its first mobile phone based on Linux this year and says most future models will follow suit, a major sign of the growing popularity of operating system outside its stronghold on high-end computers.
[February 13, 2003, 7:43]
OSDL To Push Linux For Mobiles
News It's also set up to spur development of applications, outline requirements for different mobile phone uses and host related open source development projects. Beijing, in the country where much mobile phone research and development takes place...
[October 17, 2005, 9:35]
Mobile Linux Alliance Formed
News Mobile phone makers Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Electronics, along with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, expect to announce on Thursday plans to form an independent foundation to develop a common mobile...
[June 15, 2006, 13:05]
Microsoft Hooks Up With CDMA
News The software giant has been competing in the cell phone operating system market with what amounts to one hand tied behind its back; the company's cell phone operating system worked with only one major cell phone standard, GSM (Global System for...
[January 6, 2003, 7:45]
HP To Merge Handheld With Mobile Phone
News Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday that it will offer a Jornada handheld computer later this year that also acts as a mobile phone. Meanwhile, German electronics giant Siemens said at the show that it will build its smart phone around Symbian's...
[February 21, 2001, 12:28]
Canadians Launch Microsoft Smartphone
News Microsoft has had little success in signing up brand-name mobile phone makers to its smartphone platform, exceptions being Samsung and struggling Motorola. Most obviously, the phone has a standard keypad that hinges open to become a qwerty-layout...
[October 8, 2003, 18:05]
Google Confirms Its Mobile Linux Plans
News Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. Our vision is that the powerful platform we're unveiling will power thousands of different phone models.
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
Microsoft To Announce Windows Mobile 6
News A third version, Windows Mobile Classic, is designed for PDAs without phone capabilities, an increasingly small slice of the market. Pocket PC Phone Edition, for touchscreens, becomes Windows Mobile Professional, while Smartphone edition, for non...
[February 8, 2007, 8:02]
PalmSource And Orange Team Up For Mobile Linux Standards
News The Linux Phone Standard (Lips) Forum wants to standardise Linux interfaces so that higher-level software won't have to be customised for each variation of the open source operating system appearing in different mobile phone models.
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
Gates: Cracking The Mobile Market
News Bill Gates doesn't think his company has been slow to crack the mobile phone market. As the commercial players in the Linux world evolve, it seems they become competitors, like you mentioned Nokia has in the mobile phone space.
[May 12, 2005, 15:25]
Microsoft Smartphone Connects Down Under
News Australia's Optus on Tuesday teamed up with Microsoft to release a GPRS handset based on Microsoft's Windows for Smartphones software, giving Microsoft another backer for its mobile phone plans. Optus hopes to stimulate mobile data usage with this...
[June 3, 2003, 8:17]
Symbian Smartphone Shipments Surge
News The company's operating system, with backing from nearly all the major mobile phone makers, is poised to become one of the major platforms in next-generation smartphones along with competitors such as Microsoft, Linux and PalmSource.
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
Comdex 2001: Nokia Touts New Phone Standards Group
News Mobile phone giant Nokia announced a multi-company initiative to standardize future cell phones to include features incorporating Sun Microsystems' Java software and the ability to send images between phones.
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Qualcomm To Support Linux
News From San Diego-based Qualcomm's perspective, Linux is the first "third party" mobile phone operating system that the company has supported in its 20-year history. Mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm said on Thursday that it will support Linux, marking...
[May 5, 2005, 17:50]
Nokia Cosies Up To Developers
News But some analysts see it as a defensive manoeuvre as well, aimed at to fending off a challenge from a mobile phone operating system from Microsoft. The world's largest handset maker will soon introduce "tiering," a process by which developers get...
[January 16, 2004, 7:20]
Symbian OS 7.0 Increases Focus On Smartphones
News The company tends to keep a low profile, letting the mobile phone makers that are its main backers take the limelight, but the Symbian OS has continued to quietly spread into new mobile models. Our aim is to get every mobile phone manfuacturer...
[February 20, 2002, 15:33]
