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Symbian Signs on Samsung
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'"
Sorry man, Sybian's do a lot more than just vibrate. :) Someone doesn't know their sex toys.... time to get some better pr0n obviously!
.. and they use Perforce. :-) And Perforce offers an Open Source license to any project that develops Open Source. They're also much more reasonable then a certain somebody.
Huh? The members of the consortium are direct competitors of each other in the handset market. In what way does this resemble a monopoly?
Also, exactly how do you imagine they will acquire the infrastructure?
Symbian OS (EPOC32) is quite nice some ways:
works, spends only little memory.
But currently we have some minor( or major) problems with it.
* It's difficult to program and the whole programming ideology
is rather different than any other platform I know.
(it's WHOLE C++ (not C), no static variables, those L-ending functions with setjmp-style error handling something...).
All this is a major block for programmers. Every programmer, that
I know, who have studied Symbian environment say that it's quite awful
to make code and takes a quite long time to study it.
* Almost all tools are just for M$-@#%-windows (like for Nokia's Platform-60,
which is used in Nokia 7650). To use Nokia's tools you NEED M$ Visual Studio.
(whole thing eats maybe half Gbyte of your hard drive).
There is an effort to make important tools (compiler, linker) to run
in Linux too.
Maybe Symbian nice, but it's still rather hostile to (non-M$) programmers.
pihl
"Now *I* had a Symbian phone, but that statement is utter garbage! Quite simply they are lying to deceive the public.
Palm OS is the market leader in Europe by a long long way. Pocket PC also has a *much* larger takeup than Symbian devices"
Really?
http://www.canalys.com/pr/r2002102.htm
In short: Shipments Q3 2002.
Nokia (Symbian): 55%
Palm: 15%
HP: 9%
Sony: 3%
Casio: 3%
Others: 13%
In Q3 2001, Nokia was also the leader with 27% share (compared to Palms 22%). So Symbian-devices are selling better than Palms or PocketPC's!
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