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Nokia Continuing with Symbian operating system

Gary Singer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:09:55 +0000

When all the leading mobile manufacturer are making handsets easier and more pleasant to navigate Nokia (NOK) is no behind and gaining its strength. Nokia has given clear indication that it will stick with Symbian with Maemo. Nokia has already converse in its future technology section that the things are going speedily at The Symbian Foundation’- Shan Puckrin head developer services at the symbain foundation informed that ‘The first handsets running S^2 should be appearing in the first half of 2010’

Now on Wednesday the Nokia Chief Executive Olli Pekka-Kallasvuo stated that “We will continue to invest in Symbian as our dominant smart-phone platform in the foreseeable future.”

“Let me be clear. Symbian is out platform of choice. Today, and in the future,” added Kai Oistamo, the head of the Finnish company’s handset unit.”The Symbian operating system is not the problem … We will give it the simplicity it deserves. It will work like magic,” said Oistamo.

He added that the operating system’s reach and flexibility will allow Nokia to manufacture cheaper smart phones, thus building its global audience for Internet services.

“Symbian will redefine the smart-phone price point,” said Oistamo.

Acer plans to bring more Android phones

Nancy White — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:47:58 +0000

World second largest PC brand, Acer is now exploring the budding field of smartphone market. This year they launched nine handsets powered with Windows Mobile OS and the coming next week would be privileged with its Android powered handset release.

In an interview with The Reuters Acer’s mobile unit head Mr. Aymar de Lencquesaing told that this so unbalanced handset release will be much more balanced next year and they will concentrate with 8-10 handset release per year with around 40 telecom operators prioritised through which they will sell its handsets. Presently through approximately 10 operators Acer is selling their handsets.

The potential growth in smartphone market has already attracted many PC makers to fall in the pool of handset manufacturing like Asustek, HP, Dell and now even Acer. Acer decides to grow its Android based handsets without planning to explore other operating systems. “There is definitely momentum behind Android”, said Aymar de Lencquesaing.

Google is already keen to grow its Android platform it recently added Google Map Navigation beta to its earlier Android 1.6 after its launching with Android 2. Acer is seeking potential revenue earning with Google’s mobile OS Android army in near future.