OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19973/Nokia_Buys_Symbian_So_What_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:35:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Yawn indeed! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321420 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321420 Now that OS X has been shipping on the ARM for a year, Android shold be out soon enough (ha!), and Windows CE approaches usability....

Does it matter?

The real truth is, that if Microsoft had ported even NT 4.0 to the ARM it'd be a real player.

The real fun will start when the Atom cpu starts shipping in phones.

In the end Nokia will do what it does now... nurture it's antiquated OS, to the masses, you know the ones that just 'make calls'... It will be a long time before they die out. But it'll be a slow and protracted death marked with lots of blunders.

It reminds me a lot of Novell. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (neozeed) Comments This what. http://www.osnews.com/thread?321427 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321427 * LiMO (Does anyone actually sell these? Where?)
* Android (Now, if only there was a phone that runs this framework that only OSS geeks have ever heard.)
* Windows Mobile (Get ready to run Vista Mobile)
* iPhone (Even Scientology is reasonable in comparison to Apple)
* Symbian (Just you wait what mobile giants come up with)

Now that Nokia can cram QT into Symbian and break most of existing code with major updates without caring for UIQ, Symbian could get interesting. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Verenkeitin) Comments re http://www.osnews.com/thread?321432 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321432 Nokia’s commitment to open-source Symbian does turn Windows Mobile into the “odd man out” â€" the only major mobile phone OS that’s not available under a genuine open source license. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments RE: This what. http://www.osnews.com/thread?321439 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321439
* LiMO (Does anyone actually sell these? Where?)
* Android (Now, if only there was a phone that runs this framework that only OSS geeks have ever heard.)

There's a third to this party: OpenMoko has just started shipping the second edition of their phone, which is as open as it's going to get.

Sure, not all aspects of the phone are equally impressive, and the software still needs a lot of work, but these guys are really going 'all the way' openness-wise, encouraging hackability instead of grudgingly tolerating it. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raboof) Comments RE: Yawn indeed! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321443 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321443
The real fun will start when the Atom cpu starts shipping in phones.

You do know that Intel Atom is nowhere as power efficient as ARM based processors? They won't be shipping Atom based mobile phones for quite a while (unless you want a phone with 5 h standby). Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (caudex) Comments patents? http://www.osnews.com/thread?321444 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321444 Presumably Symbian has some patents that Nokia is interested in Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (siraf72) Comments RE[2]: Yawn indeed! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321547 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321547 Those atom phones are marked for late next year.

It's coming! Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (neozeed) Comments Ease of development http://www.osnews.com/thread?321694 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321694 Ease of development is key to the success of any software platform. I personally rank Symbian at the bottom of all the alternatives mentionned. I am convinced in the end it will fail and gradually become outdated because of this. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BlackJack75) Comments RE: Yawn indeed! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321708 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321708
The real truth is, that if Microsoft had ported even NT 4.0 to the ARM it'd be a real player.


ReactOS is currently being ported to ARM, which should become interesting Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gedmurphy) Comments Nothing doing until 2010... http://www.osnews.com/thread?321712 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321712 Has anybody else noted the fact that Nokia hasn't comitted to opening a single line of code until at least 2010... This seems more aimed at generating buzz than anything else. If they were serious about saving Symbian, they would dump the code right now, Mozilla-style. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments