Symbian OS

Nokia teases new Symbian UI on an N8

News Nokia might have recently adopted Windows Phone 7, but that doesn't mean that they can't still do a little tweaking to Symbian, too. The photo you see above was snapped at a recent event in China and is a Nokia N8 with what appears to be a...

from 2011 by Alex Wagner 2

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Is Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7 a smart move?

Business And Money Over the last couple of months, it has been a mystery as to what Nokia's game plan was. We know they were looking for mobile platform alternatives, but with so many choices, we weren't sure which route they would take. More recently, there...

from 2011 by Taylor Martin 10

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Nokia and Microsoft come together to form a "strategic partnership"

News I guess Nokia and Microsoft didn't feel like a partnership was "stark raving loony," because today the two companies announced that they're entering a "strategic alliance." Nokia will be adopting Windows Phone 7 onto its handsets, which...

from 2011 by Alex Wagner 61 55 Reactions

Nokia CEO attempts to inspire employees with memo as the N9-00 gets canned

News It's tough to deny that Nokia's been having some problems lately, which includes a lukewarm reception for the N8 and the fact that Android has overtaken Symbian as the world's top mobile OS. It's not clear exactly what the company plans to...

from 2011 by Alex Wagner 1

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Android surpasses Symbian to become top smartphone platform as tablets gain ground

Android Android has steadily been gaining market share every quarter since its inception, surpassing all of its competitors one by one. Today Google's OS has finally reached the top of the mountain, according to Canalys, surpassing Symbian to...

from 2011 by Alex Wagner 81 72 Reactions

Nokia X7 for AT&T gets the axe

News Hopefully you weren't bubbling over with excitement at the sight of that AT&T-branded Nokia X7 that we saw leak the other day, because if you were, you're about to be disappointed. After being rumored to launch as soon as this month, it...

from 2011 by Alex Wagner 3

Nokia X7 leaks again ahead of possible launch this month

News It's been a while since Nokia's X7 was in the headlines, but the device has emerged again today, this time with a possible U.S. launch date. The folks over at Pocketnow have released some official-looking renders of the X7, complete with...

from 2011 by Alex Wagner 5

App Store revenue estimated to reach $2 billion in 2011

Android Now that Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market have over half a million applications combined, it seems pretty obvious that apps are a huge deal for both customers and developers. A new projection from Citibank claims that they'll...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 2

Nokia ships between 3.5 and 4 million N8s since launch?

News Nokia said a while back that the N8 was the most pre-ordered device in the company's history, but just how has it been doing ever since it launched back in October? There's no official numbers available just yet, but Finnish research firm...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 7

Nokia planning to overhaul Symbian UI, bring dual-core hardware in 2011

News Nokia will be releasing some devices running the new MeeGo OS next year, but that doesn't mean that they'll be abandoning Symbian completely. Quite the opposite, actually, as the company recently announced that they'll be bringing over 50...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 0

Nokia X7 photos leak with AT&T-branding in tow

News We don't see a ton of Nokia smartphones get picked up by a major carrier here in the U.S., but a new image shows that the quad-speaker-sporting Nokia X7 will buck that trend. Famed mobile journalist Eldar Murtazin has gotten his hands on...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 8

Survey shows little loyalty among many smartphone owners

Android There are a lot of smartphone platforms out there that are constantly innovating and vying for your attention, and it can be tough to stick to one OS without at least considering jumping ship to another. A new survey shows that a lot of...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 20

Nokia X7-00 and its four speakers appear in the wild

News So you're a big Nokia/Symbian fan, but for some reason, the N8 didn't tickle your fancy? Perhaps the newly-leaked Nokia X7-00 and its four speakers is in your future. Specs for the entertainment-centric device include Symbian (Symbian^3,...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 1

Nokia Ovi Store reaches 3 million downloads per day

News Nokia hit a bit of a rough patch recently, losing several top executives and watching as Symbian lost ground to competing platforms like Android. When it comes to apps and the Ovi Store, though, things seem to be going well for Nokia. ...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 1

Android closing in on Symbian for top mobile OS

Android You say you've got an insatiable appetite for reports about mobile OS market share? That's great, because today research firm Gartner released their worldwide Q3 2010 numbers. Symbian is, unsurprisingly, still wearing the gold medal with...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 0

Symbian Foundation transitioning into a legal entity, handing development over to Nokia

News After receiving a rather large dose of funding and becoming known as SYMBEOSE, some thought that the Symbian Foundation as we know it would be going the way of the Dodo. Today we know that that's not the case, although big things are in...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 0

Symbian gets a healthy dose of funding, now known as SYMBEOSE

News Symbian has seen quite a few changes over the past few months, but today's is possibly one of the biggest things to happen to the platform in recent memory. After recently receiving a €22m investment from the Artemis Joint Technology...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 2

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Android is the most popular platform in the U.S. while iPhone is the top hardware [UPDATED]

Android Another day, another report about smartphone market share. The folks over at Canalys have put out their numbers, and the results seem to follow the same trends that we've been seeing as of late. Android saw massive growth, going from 1.4...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 5

Nokia smartphones outselling the iPhone at a rate of 2 to 1

Iphone Os Nokia's N8 is receiving less-than-stellar reviews and AT&T just moved 5.2 million iPhones in Q3, but it turns out that Nokia is still the king of the smartphone hill. The folks at MSNBC are reporting that Nokia smartphones are outselling...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 8

Symbian's Executive Director steps down for "personal reasons"

News Nokia may have recently released the shiny new Symbian^3-powered N8 , but not all is going well in Symbian World. Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, has decided to leave the company for "personal...

from 2010 by Alex Wagner 0