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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. Oops... by ryanvm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one that thought that said Sybian?

    1. Re:Oops... by cqnn · · Score: 5, Funny

      It was the next logical step after all...

      To have the phone set on 'vibrate' by default.

  2. Re:"smarterphone"? by Maniakes · · Score: 5, Funny

    So MS's smartphone can play chess... does this me Symbian's can play Go? :)

    I'm waiting for a cellphone that can play Global Thermonuclear War.

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  3. 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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  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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