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Nokia Taking Over Psion to Control Symbian?
securitas writes: "Reuters reports that Nokia is considering a takeover of Psion (mirror at Forbes), to gain control of the Symbian operating system. Psion is the second largest shareholder in Symbian with a 31.1 percent stake. Nokia holds 32.2 percent. The move is seen as a tactic to fight off Microsoft and dominate the lucrative and growing mobile phone software market. Symbian is currently owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Samsung Electronics, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. The report originates in the London newspaper, Business. What does this mean for the Symbian OS, which is currently an open OS?"
Thought that said Sybian. That would be an interesting integration...
Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
First I thought it said 'Nokia to take over Prison control System' Which freaked me out. Then I thought it said 'Nokia to take Psionic Control of System' which freaked me out some more... phew
Anyone else read the title, "Nokia Taking Over Psion to Control Symbian?", and wonder what science ficiton novel we were talking about?
I assume Nokia is the bad governement, Psion is a planet (or some such), and Symbian is some resource/person/super_robot?
After their wild success with the greatest hand-held game platform (I speak, of course, of the N-Gage) there's NOTHING that Nokia can't do!
oops, forgot the sarcasm tags
Is this the same Psion as in Psion Flight Simulator, Psion Chequered Flag, etc. ?
If so, then maybe Nokia is onto something for its builtin games. I think I have my original cassettes somewhere..
I have to admit, I never really pictured Nokia to be the lonely, under-stimulated type. So far as controlling Sybian, I've never seen one personally, but from what I've read Sybians have fairly simple, yet robust controls, I don't really think it would be neccessary to purchase Psion to get the desired results.
Oh, and so far as 'remaining open', I think it would go completely against the design of Sybian to go closed. I mean you would lose most available functionality by closing up all of a sudden.
</deadpan<
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Be thinner, not smaller... Height and width should be like a normal phone: It's got to reach from my ear to my mouth, right?
Nice, so now we can look forward to a new series of spam pushing "cell phone enlargers."
" Not to heat up like a red-hot poker after 20 minutes of talking."
.....
Dude,
guys don't talk on the phone that long.
That's a girl thing. Here's a guy's conversation.
First: Man to Man:
Man 1: Hey what's up
Man 2: Let go to a strip club
Man 1: Fuckin' a. I'll be over in 1/2 an hour.
BOOM. Phone hangs up. Conversation is less than a minute.
Second: Man to Woman
This doesn't happen
Third: Woman to Man
Woman: Hey, what's up
Man: I'm kinda busy right now.
Woman: Can you come over? I'll make you dinner, you can fuck me, and then watch the football game
Man: Okay, but no talking
BOOM: conversation over. Total time.... 1 minute
If you're on longer than that, I'll bet you have no dick. Just a pair of tits and a hairy hole.
...the headline, which sounds like it's from an "Ultraman" episode. Sorry.
calamari
Seems that every time Symbian is mentioned on Slashdot, someone has to come up with the same old Sybian jokes.. We're NERDS goddammit! We should be thinking about handheld devices when someone mention Sybian, not the other way around! :)