Symbian Rallies Developers Against Microsoft
News On its side, Symbian has the economic and distribution muscle of the handset makers, who sell to a market many times bigger than the PDA market, and have avenues into both the high street and the wireless network operators.
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Smartphone Standards Battle Heats Up
News While standardised handset operating systems come with many cost benefits to the handset OEMs, their biggest fear remains the monopolising of the OS, making the handset supplier irrelevant -- much like the PC industry.
[July 22, 2003, 9:53]
PalmSource Pushes On With Linux Plans
News PalmOne is aid to be planning both a Windows Mobile-based handset and some Linux-based systems, which could further undermine confidence in PalmSource, industry observers have said. Last week the OS got its first licensee, Hong Kong-based Group...
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
Orange Rolls Out Its First Wireless PDA
News That handset was followed with a revamp, and later with a third version that added a built-in camera and Bluetooth capabilities. The M1000 is based on a reference design from Taiwan contract manufacturer High Tech Computer (HTC), and is similar to...
[February 6, 2004, 12:05]
Zaurus Goes Online, But Not In UK
News Microsoft's Windows CE software will be built into a mobile phone handset from UK start-up Sendo that is launching later this year in Europe and the US. Treo, BlackBerry and the Symbian OS devices are available in the UK, along with Pogo, a...
[April 9, 2002, 16:52]
Microsoft Smartphone 2003 Debuts In Taiwan
News Taiwanese manufacturer Mitac on Monday unveiled its first handset based on Microsoft Smartphone 2003 at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. Mitac claims that the 8390 will be the first Smartphone 2003 handset available, but rival HTC made a similar...
[September 23, 2003, 9:45]
Battle For The Mobile Space Heats Up
News Motorola's first 3G handset: The A820 Fri 22 Feb: The software giant is at 3GSM talking to major handset makers who are interested in using its software to build a new generation of smart cell phones Tues 19 Feb: The PC software giant is seeking...
[February 19, 2002, 13:28]
DoCoMo 3G Deal Makes Symbian Big In Japan
News Under the Operator Technology Integrator agreement announced on Friday, DoCoMo will get the right to customise and extend the Symbian OS source code for use with its FOMA 3G service in Japan, and to distribute the customised software to Symbian...
[September 26, 2003, 12:25]
Europe To Get Microsoft Smartphone Before US
News Samsung is also making a Palm-based smartphone and is developing a Symbian OS handset. On Monday, Microsoft and Cingular said they would introduce Sendo's Z100 smartphone handset in the US in the second half of this year -- the first carrier...
[March 19, 2002, 12:58]
Slow GPRS Rollout Takes Toll On Symbian
News Psion owns a stake in Symbian, which is jointly owned by several of the main mobile phone handset makers, and which is looking to embed its operating system in everything from standard handsets to sophisticated PDA-phones like Nokia's Communicator...
[March 14, 2002, 17:11]
Handhelds Make A Comeback
News Motorola was third with 6.4 percent of the market, partly boosted by the success of its A920 3G handset and the Windows-based MPx200. Nokia has the widest range of smartphones and successfully tapped into the corporate market in Q4 with its...
[January 26, 2004, 15:05]
Symbian Chief Blasts Microsoft
News Microsoft's Stinger is designed primarily as a phone handset with added PDA features such as email, organiser and contact database. And Ericsson's handset has one major benefit over Stinger: it has been available since last autumn.
[February 22, 2001, 14:53]
Nokia-Palm Merger Rumours Get Cool Reception
News The world's number-two handset maker recently acquired Symbol — which, like Palm, also runs OSes from Palm and Windows Mobile — while Moto has also recently upped its own smartphone presence by unveiling two new editions to its Microsoft-based...
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
Microsoft Smartphone Ships To Developers
News The handset will be Microsoft's flagship mobile phone in both Europe and the US, where it will arrive in the second half of this year. Sendo has begun offering developers an early version of its Windows-Powered Smartphone 2002 handset, the Z100, as...
[June 5, 2002, 16:32]
Orange SPV E100 review
Reviews Audio quality is good, but we'd have liked the headphone socket to be on the top of the handset rather than on the bottom right: in its current position there's a tendency for it to jiggle about in the pocket.
[July 9, 2003, 10:21]
Goodbye Palm, Hello Access Linux Platform
News Cripps also raised a concern that "we appear to be heading for a world in which there are numerous Linux-based handset platforms that are at least somewhat incompatible to each other from the point of view of application developers", adding that...
[October 12, 2006, 17:00]
HTC Goes It Alone With Windows Smartphones
News Handset manufacturer High Tech Computer (HTC), which supplies many operators with their "own-branded" smartphones and PDAs, is to start releasing devices under its own name. The TyTN (previously codenamed Hermes) is the first tri-band 3G Windows...
[June 16, 2006, 11:00]
PDA Price War Looms On The Horizon
News Psion and handset makers like Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola have pinned their PDA hopes on Symbian, an alliance formed around Psion's EPOC operating system. While the slowdown hasn't yet spread to Europe, mobile handset and handheld computer makers...
[April 12, 2001, 7:40]
Motorola Unveils First Linux Smartphone
News Motorola has launched its first handset powered by Linux, in a move being closely watched by those who see a bright future for the open-source operating system on portable devices. The US handset maker introduced the A760 handset on Friday in...
[August 22, 2003, 16:30]
