Symbian Ltd announced the launch of the latest version of Symbian OS. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. The new version is sporting enhanced networking capabilities, support for Java MIDP 2.0, a multimedia framework and new language variants.
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As phones be come increasingly powerful and approach the capabilities of PDAs, I wonder how long Symbiam can keep it’s edge in he phone market.
Symbian has lower hardware requirements and it is not from MS (this is important since cellphone companies saw too many times how MS screwed its partners).
Symbian OS is based on EPOC, which was used in Psion computers, the best PDAs ever. It is because the phones are becoming more like PDAs that they have an edge.
I totally agree about Psion computers being the best PDA’s ever. I am actually waiting for someone to make a Symbian quartz based PDA (palm size instead of the old Psion clamshell design). The Sony Ericsson P800 is a great looking phone, but it’d be nice to have a low entry PDA running SymbianOS as well.
I just got my first Psion Netbook, a 4 years old technology that still kick the butt of everything on the market. And I mean for my own needs. Many people can argue about the “form” factor. Some prefere the “Palm” format. In my case I prefere the clam-shell/sub-notebook format.
But one think nobody can argue : the OS, Epoc/Symbian amazingly rock. I used to own a Psion Series 5. I haven’t rebooted the OS a single time for OVER THREE YEARS ! And that include pretty heavy usage, including coding/testing/debugging sessions.
That’s for Epoc (which is Symbian 5). I’m really curious to know how it look right now (especially with a bunch of BeOS technologies thrown in it).
Long live to Psion and Symbian! And still dreaming of a Netbook-like device running Symbian 7 …
Very long, it’s used by Nokia and Ericsson and it will be for a very long time. I hear the Ericsson P800 and the Nokia 7650 are doing very well in the market.
I hear Opera been ported to Symbiam too (so now it’s just missing Firebird
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That’s for Epoc (which is Symbian 5). I’m really curious to know how it look right now (especially with a bunch of BeOS technologies thrown in it).
Ehrm, it was Palm who bought Be Inc, not Symbian mate. You’ll probably find the features you’re referring to in PalmOS 6
Having Opera is a very big advantage for Symbian IMO. It actually makes using the web on a tiny PDA screen practical, if you want to browse on a device like that there’s nothing close.
If someone made a new Psion 5 like PDA with Symbian I’d buy one in an instant. But since Psion failed to sell that kind of PDA successfully, I can’t see anyone else releasing one.
i like symbian but i can’t help but consider it more market manipulation by the major phone vendors (ericsson, nokia, siemens, motorola). That same club screwed up the cellular industry by pushing their agenda (can you say W-CDMA) before that of the industry as a whole and look what has happened.
symbian is a nice product and i am sure that symbian will be around, since the monopolists have decreed it should, i just hope it does not become another tool to squash competition because that won’t be good for anyone. On that note, palmsource is really a let down. They need to do more to get into phones, and normal phones not just smart phones or pda/phones that have larger than average form factor and screens.
LOL You’re totally right
Don’t know where my head was at the moment I wrote that 
When you’re born you get a bank of mistakes, I think something like 10 000 that you can use during life… I think you got 9999 left ;P.
These things easily happen =)