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Symbian Signs on Samsung

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the excuse-for-alliteration dept.

mmol_6453 writes "In a move that beat Orange's showing off the first Microsoft-based smartphone by a day, Symbian has signed on Samsung. Quoth the article: 'Symbian now licenses its smartphone software to all five top mobile makers, and its OS has beaten both Palm and Microsoft in the European handheld device market'"

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  1. Symbian EPOC by vlad_petric · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... is by far the best OS for mobile devices, in terms of stability (I've had a Psion device for more than 2 years now; the OS *never* crashed and trust me, I've tried many things on it), functionality, and even memory consumption (the filesystem/application memory automatic balance is great).

    I wish I could say that Sharp Zaurus running embedix Linux is a good match, but in fact it isn't. Not only it crashed on me once, and required cold reboot, but the boundaries of the filesystem and memory are also fixed; this means that if you want more application memory (to play Freeciv for instance) you have to create a swap file (!?!).

    The Raven

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  2. Bluetooth -- Software development by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a lot of cool stuff coming out for Symbian these day(I know, it's all in theory and testing). Symbian makes things jive just a little bit better. People are now using symbian in respect to bluetooth (switchme). Its something that definitely makes sense and will hopefully get bluetooth off the ground. Hopfully more developers will work to make the killer app.

  3. Re:Yea bloatware... by Troed · · Score: 4, Informative
    *cough*


    Poor resource management?


    Please tell me which other multimedia capable handheld/smartphone operating systems which even come close to the excellence of the CleanupStack::Push/Pop .. (as one example).


    Yes, I've also developed on Symbian.

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    it's in my head
  4. Re:"smarterphone"? by Ch_Omega · · Score: 4, Informative

    "As it supports both J2ME and it's own C++ based API's it can support anything you write for it, I'd be very supprised if both Go and Chess don't exisit for J2ME, and I know EPOC has Chess, which would not be hard to port over to Symbian 7."

    Actually, Series 60 is Symbian 6.1, not Symbian 7.

    ...And yes, there are lots of both Symbian software, and j2me aplications out there. :)