Popular news tagged with "Symbian"
1   | Beyond Smartphones: Open Symbian Ready For Tablets |
The transition to open source — which the Symbian Foundation crows is “the largest in software history” — enables developers and organizations to access the code for use on any platform, not just phones but tablets and a wide range of other connected devices, according to Larry Berkin, Symbian’s head of global alliances and U.S. general
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2 | Symbian becomes Open Source and Free |
The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
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2 | Nokia reveals new Symbian user interface built on Qt |
Nokia today let loose on their Symbian S^4 concept. More of a proposal and call for feedback allowing users and developers to have a chance to share their two cents worth.
The user interface concept is a complete overhall, and thank goodness for that. The platforms apps will all be redesignd, reorganized and rearranged to tap the latest graphics capabilities of Symbian devices.
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1 | Nokia Demos New Symbian OS With Multi-touch |
Far from dropping Symbian it appears that Nokia has new found love for it. At the company’s ‘Capital Market Day’ for investors, the Finns showed off concepts for a complete rehash of the flagging mobile OS and they do look mighty impressive.
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2 | Nokia’s 2010 Goals: Fix the Symbian UI, release Maemo 6, |
Today’s event offers a sneak peak at what Nokia is planning for 2010, and how they’re going to fix their problems. Here are some of the highlights
Nokia expects industry mobile device volumes to be up approximately 10% in 2010, compared to 2009. – Nokia targets its mobile device volume market share to be flat in 2010, compared to 2009. – Nokia targets lower average selling price ...
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1 | Nokia releases Qt 4.6 - Symbian and Maemo support |
Qt 4.6 was released by Nokia this morning. This is the first full release version of Qt to natively support Symbian and Maemo 6. Also released today is the second technology preview for Maemo 5, which enables (partial) common development between Maemo and Symbian for the first time.
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1 | Rumor: Nokia Dropping Symbian Also For The E Series In Favor Of Maemo |
Now it seems like that’s happening sooner than we thought or Nokia wants to admit. According to arcticstartup.com a contact at Nokia’s legal department unofficially affirmed that Nokia will also drop Symbian for the E Series enterprise range. This is no doubt a rumor, but we are pretty confident this could be true. Here’s why.
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1 | Spotify Now Works on Symbian Smartphones |
Spotify, the European music service that attracted attention by launching the first streaming music app for the iPhone, now has a version for Symbian smartphones.
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1 | Nokia says it will replace Symbian with Maemo by 2012. |
All high-end N series multimedia devices will be running the Linux OS by then. Rubbing salt in the wounds of longtime Epoc developers, it disclosed the news to a meetup of Maemo enthusiasts – Ben Smith reports at The Really Mobile Project blog. X series and E series devices will continue to run Symbian OS – at least for the time being.
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1 | Nokia Announces Official Qt Port to Maemo 5 |
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced the creation of the official Qt port to Maemo 5 and published an initial Technology Preview release. This port to Maemo 5 means that developers can now use Qt to target the upcoming Nokia N900 device and also ensures that applications can be easily ported to all Qt’s supported platforms including the next Maemo 6 release as well as Symbian and Windows Mobile...
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