With Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7 as the main platform, the fate of Nokia’s Symbian OS and MeeGo was uncertain. However, Nokia has come clean saying that both the platforms will continue to survive albeit both will have a different approach. Symbian will now become a franchise platform to Windows Phone 7, which means […]
Symbian Foundation will act as a licensing body, Nokia will develop Symbian
Symbian Foundation today announced that they’ll no longer develop the Symbian platform but would rather become a simple licensing body. This decision comes after the non-profit organisation failed to capture attention of phone manufacturers except Nokia. However, this does not mean the end of the world’s widely used smartphone OS. Nokia issued a separate […]
Nokia to drop Symbian versions, adopt Qt framework and HTML5
Nokia today announced its latest development strategy that will unify development environment for Nokia’s smartphone OS – Symbian and MeeGo. Qt will be sole application development framework that will allow developers to deploy their apps quickly to the existing and future range of Symbian devices as well as the MeeGo platform. This ensures a […]
Symbian Foundation head resigns
Symbian Foundation has confirmed that Lee Williams, Executive Director of the organization has stepped down from his position, effective immediately. The reason stated for the resignation is for “personal reasons” but considering the current state of Symbian OS in the market, the actual reason could be much more than personal. Tim Holbrow, Symbian Foundation’s […]
Sony Ericsson to ditch Symbian in favor of Android
Sony Ericsson is the latest company to leave the world’s most used smartphone OS for the new shiny Google operating system. Sony Ericsson’s spokesperson, Aldo Liguori confirmed to Bloomberg that they have “no plans to develop any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system.” This is major blow to Symbian as […]
Nokia C7 with Symbian^3, 8MP camera leaked
Thanks to a forum post, we just got a peek on Nokia’s upcoming C7 touchscreen device from the Cseries. The phone will apparently run Symbian^3 OS and feature a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display with multi-touch support, 8MP camera with dual LED flash, face recognition, stereo speakers and front facing camera. Other details like availability […]
Symbian: First Symbian^3 phone will be from an Asian vendor and not Nokia
Nokia might have been the first one to unveil a Symbian^3 device but it will be an Asian vendor who will bring the Symbian^3-equipped phone to the market first. Lee Williams, executive director of Symbian Foundation confirmed to Reuters that a phone running Symbian 3 software will be shipped first by an Asian vendor […]
Symbian^4 UI gets video demo
Symbian has released couple of videos showing interface of Symbian^4. The first video shows multiple homescreen and its widgetized interface whereas the second video goes through the image viewing menu. The interface – as you’ll see – is clearly meant for larger sized touchscreen devices but unfortunately fails to amaze considering it’s the UI […]
Symbian goes open source, code available for tinkering
Symbian, world’s most widely used platform has gone open source. Symbian Foundation, who owns the platform has released the source code of the OS for developers to fiddle with. This important step could mark Symbian’s future of Symbian that although is in existence for over 10 years but has failed to capitalize to new-age […]
Nokia 2010 Symbian UI gets some screenshots, looks promising
Nokia’s unfathomable commitment to Symbian is no secret. Nokia has released some concept proposal UI for Symbian^4 and is currently asking for feedback from Symbian developers. The Qt built S^4 UI boasts revamped layout, support for irregular shaped homescreen widgets, improved task-switcher and more. Nokia has in fact, compared the UI to Android, webOS […]