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PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback It would have been an added advantage to the reader if the functionality of Palm would have been compared with Symbian. The PDA market is losing out to smartphones.
[March 4, 2004, 2:16]
A Guide To Handheld Operating Systems review
Reviews A recent check of software site Handango revealed more than 5,500 third-party applications for the Symbian OS -- not quite up to Palm and Windows Mobile levels, but far more than you'll find on other mobile phone operating systems.
[August 10, 2006, 16:20]
Spybot - Search & Destroy For Pocket PCs
Downloads Spybot-S&D for Windows Mobile uses a lightweight version of the detection engine of Spybot-S&D for Windows to detect threats for Windows Mobile and Symbian both, the later because Bluetooth worms could spread over OS borders, and while they would...
[August 21, 2006, 21:45]
Spybot - Search & Destroy For Smartphones
Downloads Spybot-S&D for Windows Mobile uses a lightweight version of the detection engine of Spybot-S&D for Windows to detect threats for Windows Mobile and Symbian both, the later because Bluetooth worms could spread over OS borders, and while they would...
[August 21, 2006, 20:59]
Symbian Rallies Developers Against Microsoft
News We will put the Symbian OS into every phone," he declared. Fathammer, which makes a 3D engine that can be customised for use in different games, makes versions for Linux and Pocket PC as well as Symbian OS, and also fine-tunes the versions for...
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Have Apple Got It Wrong With The IPhone?
Blog Comment However, you neglect to consider the iPhone has 500MBs of desktop-class Unix-based OS X on some pretty high performance hardware compared to the ~50MB of Windows Mobile, Symbian etc with a far more robust and easy to use software update mechanism...
[November 15, 2007, 21:12]
Motorola Licenses Opera Browser
News Opera makes its Web browser available on mobile platforms such as the Symbian OS and Linux, but pointedly does not support Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms, such as Pocket PC and Windows for Smartphones.
[February 11, 2004, 10:30]
PalmSource Unveils OS 6 Improvements
News He said this standardisation is a major advantage of Palm OS development, compared with Windows Mobile or Symbian, the operating system that powers smartphones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others. This is important when you compare us with Windows...
[September 22, 2003, 17:25]
Siemens: Why The Smartphone World Doesn't Need Microsoft
News Several big players are currently competing to establish themselves in the fuzzy area where computing and wireless devices come together: Microsoft with its Windows CE-based devices, PalmSource with Palm OS-based wireless handhelds and smartphones...
[May 1, 2003, 15:06]
Symbian Smartphones Get Email, Photo Services
News Symbian OS-based smartphones are getting two new wireless services: an always-on email offering for personal and corporate customers, and a photo-sharing service aimed at consumers. Symmetry Express supports any handset based on Symbian OS 6.1 or...
[June 16, 2003, 15:39]
Smartphone Market Picks Up In Europe
News Voice-oriented devices running on the Symbian OS led the pack, shipping a total of 807,270 units for the quarter, eight times more than the same quarter last year. The launch of Sony Ericsson's P800 is good news for the Symbian platform, Canalys said.
[April 23, 2003, 12:58]
Symbian Backers Lure Developers
News Nokia and Sony Ericsson will also create a common certification programme for Symbian OS applications, in an effort to ensure the quality of new smartphone programs. Developers seeking to port existing applications to the Symbian OS will also get...
[February 17, 2003, 16:21]
Opera Spins Web Into Mobile Phones
News In practice, said Noren, the software will probably show up first on the Series 60 platform -- Nokia's version of the Symbian OS, which is also used by several other handset makers. Opera versions are available for Symbian OS handsets such as the...
[October 10, 2003, 15:05]
Mobiles To Get PowerVR 3D This Year
News Imagination on Thursday will announce OpenGL ES support in PowerVR MBX and MBX Lite for any Symbian OS or Linux device, and Imagination is also supporting OpenGL on Windows CE for a specific, unnamed customer.
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
Nokia-Palm Merger Rumours Get Cool Reception
News One major sticking point is the question of operating systems: Palm divides its devices between the Palm and Microsoft operating systems, whereas Nokia is firmly backing the Symbian OS for both consumer and enterprise smartphones and is highly...
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
Multilanguage Speereo Voice Translator (Symbian)
Downloads Running on Windows Mobile and Symbian based mobile devices it contains of over 4000 phrases in each of 16 languages and many other useful features.SVT is designed for Symbian and Windows Mobile OS and can be installed either in built-in memory or...
[October 28, 2008, 18:31]
Symbian OS C++ For Windows C++ Programmers
White Papers This paper discusses some issues that a typical Windows C++ programmer will encounter when approaching Symbian OS for the first time. The paper provides some pointers to help ease the transition to successful Symbian OS application development.
[February 6, 2007, 1:06]
Be Launches Mobile Operating System
News The new operating system enters a fiercely competitive market with Symbian's Epoc, Microsoft's Windows CE and the Palm OS all battling to be the standard for mobile Internet access devices. Compaq is expected to unveil a working device based on the...
[February 8, 2000, 10:08]
Spybot - Search & Destroy For Symbian
Downloads Spybot-S&D for Symbian uses a lightweight version of the detection engine of Spybot-S&D for Windows to detect threats for Symbian, the later because Bluetooth worms could spread over OS borders, and while they would not perform on an incompatible...
[October 11, 2006, 17:26]
Battle Cake
Downloads For instance one person can play the game with Pocket PC Dell Axim x50v, another with Palm OS Treo 650, third with Windows Mobile i-mate sp3i based smartphone, and the fourth one with a phone run by Symbian OS N-Gage QD.
[August 25, 2006, 18:46]
