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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. Re:Oops... by siliconwafer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!

  2. Symbian is cool.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .. 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.

  3. Re:Another monopoly in the making? by spakka · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

  4. Re:This artcile is utter fantasy! by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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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