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Nokia expects 10% market growth in 2010

Rob — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:15:38 +0000

Nokia company predicts that next year the mobile phone market will grow by 10%. The share of the Finnish manufacturer will remain at the level of 2009. This is stated in a press release. Nokia also noted that in 2010 the manufacturer will focus on improving financial performance, increasing the volume of business services and advancing nokia phones.

CEO of Nokia Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said that next year, developers will withdraw the Symbian platform to a new level. He noted that the development of Symbian corporation will be able to expand its presence in the smartphone market.

In addition, in the second half of 2010 the company will release a mobile device running Maemo 6. The producer also make plans to significantly expand the range of smartphones with QWERTY-keyboard and encourage the development of services Ovi with third-party developers.

LG to cancel the parnership with symbian?

Rob — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:24:47 +0000

LG does not exclude that announced back in February KT770 smartphone based on Symbian OS may not appear on the market. The company also noted that the smartphone could be seriously refined, especially the software part. In this case, the device will hit the market under another name.

Some experts believe that LG will abandon the production of devices running Symbian and will focus on Android and Windows Mobile. These assumptions are also confirmed by LG strategy, about which told the CEO Yong Nam.

Previously, LG had give preference to a mobile operating system from Microsoft and signed the partnership agreement earlier this year. However, given the favorable forecasts for Android and not very bright prospects for Windows Mobile LG decided not to take risks and produce smartphones either first, or on the second platform.

Symbian gets a roadmap – waiting for Symbian^2

GULLIVER — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:26:24 +0000

The official blog of Symbian Foundation has published a new roadmap of operating system Symbian, which will be developed jointly by several companies. The organization Symbian Foundation has quite a lot of participants, the largest of them are Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG and Samsung. The new OS will be open, it will be marked as follows: Symbian ^ N (abbreviated – S ^ N), where N-number version.

As reported in the Symbian Foundation blog, the first release of the new operating system, Symbian ^ 2 will be ready by mid-2009. And after half a year in sales will be smart phones running Symbian ^ 2. Six months after the version of Symbian ^ 2 developers plan to complete Symbian ^ 3, the device based on it will be in 2010. And by the end of next year should have Symbian ^ 4, said the blog of Symbian Foundation.

Motorola leaves Symbian for Android

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:34:17 +0000

According to the Spanish website elmundo.es, company Motorola plans to abandon development of its own products based on the Symbian operating system and concentrate on the platform Android. The website names Oscar Rodriguez as the source, director of mobile units of Motorola in Spain.

He told the press that Motorola would suspend nearly all production in 2009 in order to prepare an entirely new line of smart phones based on Android to the Christmas season sales. He said that the company could show weak sales during three quarters, for the sake of big bets for the future.

Interestingly, in October Sanjay Jha mentioned that Motorola is not going to create new devices with Symbian UIQ, however, the company still is a member of the Symbian Foundation. Also according to earlier news, Motorola hopes to create phone based not only on Android in the future, but also “a strong portfolio of” Windows Mobile 7 devices.

Nokia 5800 Tube available for pre-order at $499.99

GULLIVER — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:35:53 +0000

It seemed we have couple more days untill the official announcement of smartphone Nokia 5800 Tube, but it had already appeared on the site of mobilecityonline.com. Nokia’s first touch screen phone 5800 Tube is available for pre-order, but when will shippings start remain unspecified.

Moreover, at the shop simless Nokia 5800 Tube costs $799.99, and for those who make the reservation – $499.99. To be honest, the price is unexpectedly low.

We should remind that the Nokia 5800 Tube is the first smartphone with a touch screen based platform S60.

It is expected that the formal announcement of Nokia 5800 Tube will been held on 2 October.

Symbian is first, Windows Mobile unpopular

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:10:21 +0000

By the results of the second quarter in the market of smartphones unexpected changes occured: Research in Motion (BlackBerry) is becoming more and more popular and it took second place leaving behind Windows Mobile and. First place is reserved for Symbian, it takes more than half of total sales.

Thus, the operating system on BlackBerry, which is, for the most part, to service only a niche group (although recently RIM is expanding its coverage), was much popular then Windows Mobile, which is positioned slightly wider.

The strongest sales growth are seen from the iPhone – 230% compared to sales of the same period last year, the number of devices – 828 thousand. On the other hand, sales of Linux-devices decreased by 16%. Overall, the market for smartphones increased by 15.7%, they still took 11% of all mobile phones.

Stats by Gartner.