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Sony Ericsson’s Custom Android Interface Is Called Nexus
5:03AM Matt Buchanan | Sony Ericsson’s custom interface for Android on the X10 — and other OSes, like Symbian and Windows Mobile in time — is going to be called Nexus. Like other custom UIs du jour, it’ll integrate a bunch of services, like for social networking. More »
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Nokia’s N-Series Will Ditch Symbian For Maemo By 2012
11:09PM Danny Allen | At an official N900 meet-up in London last night, the Maemo marketing team appears to have let slip that Nokia will use the Linux-based OS instead of S60 on all its future flagship N-Series handsets. About time, no? More »
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2:05PM Nick Broughall | Editor’s log, Stardate sixteen eleven oh nine: I find myself slowly becoming overwhelmed by the sheer volume of application stores available to the modern phone user. What started off as a fresh, original idea to sell applications for a dedicated device has quickly descended into the murky bog of confusion as every phone maker and his dog jumps on the bandwagon. What’s worse – I’m receiving reports that now the telcos are trying to cut into this already overcrowded market, with Optus launching its own app store for Symbian, Android, Blackberry, Windows media and Java handsets. This is the toughest assignment we’ve ever encountered, and it’s going to require all our strength to overcome it. More »
Optus Launches Its Own App Store
2:05PM Nick Broughall | Editor’s log, Stardate sixteen eleven oh nine: I find myself slowly becoming overwhelmed by the sheer volume of application stores available to the modern phone user. What started off as a fresh, original idea to sell applications for a dedicated device has quickly descended into the murky bog of confusion as every phone maker and his dog jumps on the bandwagon. What’s worse – I’m receiving reports that now the telcos are trying to cut into this already overcrowded market, with Optus launching its own app store for Symbian, Android, Blackberry, Windows media and Java handsets. This is the toughest assignment we’ve ever encountered, and it’s going to require all our strength to overcome it. More »
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Samsung Dumping Symbian
2:32AM Mark Wilson | So this is why Samsung announced bada. That new OS will replace Symbian starting in 2010, according to Samsung’s senior VP, Don Joo Lee. (No worries, Samsung will continue to sell Windows Mobile and Android handsets.) But as for Symbian, the OS will certainly take a hit without a piece of Samsung’s 200 million or so phones shipping yearly (a figure based upon their expected 2009 numbers). Ouch. [DigiTimes via techblips UberGizmo]
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Video: Concept Symbian UI Blends AR Maps, Social Networking
1:12AM Danny Allen | The flashy concept was shown at the Symbian Foundation’s SEE 2009 keynote last month and actually looks pretty cool. But is it too little too late? More »
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Overheard: “Nokia Will Never Release An Android Handset”
8:03AM Dan Nosowitz | At the Finnish phonemaker’s booth, I overheard a Nokia rep tell someone definitively that Nokia “will never release an Android handset”. He added, “You can quote me on that”, which is good, because I am! More »
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Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids
3:01PM Matt Buchanan | A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »
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3:28PM Chris Oaten | Sony Ericsson has just announced released Satio, a handset designed to deliver the “ultimate” multimedia and communications experience. Our quotes, not theirs. More »
Sony Ericcson. Satio. Symbian. Synergy?
3:28PM Chris Oaten | Sony Ericsson has just announced released Satio, a handset designed to deliver the “ultimate” multimedia and communications experience. Our quotes, not theirs. More »
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Nokia Erdos Is Carved Out Of A Single Piece Of Stainless Steel
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | Believe it or not, Nokia keeps doing their expensive 8800 series. And believe it or not, they still run the dreadful Symbian S60. This is the next model, the Nokia Erdos, carved out of a single piece of stainless steel. More »
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