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Symbian Foundation launched, Symbian to be fully owned by Nokia

Posted on 6/24/2008 02:49:00 PM No Comments
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Creating big news for the Symbian ecosystem, Nokia Corp. has decided to acquire all the shares of Symbian Limited. Symbian Ltd. is the manufacturer of Symbian OS, which is the core platform for UIQ and S60 UIs. Nokia already owns a controlling stake in Symbian, but with this decision they will be acquiring the remainig 52% shares from other shareholders for an estimated EUR264 million. The press release on this by Nokia is available here

They have also decided to set up Symbian Foundation in cooperation with some key players of the mobile industry including AT&T, EA Mobile, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. All of the mobile manufacturers in Symbian Foundation are already using the Symbian platform. More on the planned organization can be found at their website .

Nokia still leading the way

Posted on 6/03/2008 07:29:00 PM No Comments
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According to a recent report by Gartner Inc., LG has been able to surpass Sony Ericsson gaining the fourth place on the worldwide mobile phone market. LG, which only had a 6.2% market share in Q1 2007 has grown by 1.8% to get a market share of 8% in the same quarter of 2008 while slipping Sony Ericsson down to the fifth place in the market. Sony Ericsson, which had a 8.4% share in the market in Q1 2007 has fell down to 7.5% in Q1 2008. Motorola has fallen by 8.2% to a 10.2% market share while still retaining its third place. Samsung grew by 2.2% in the same period to a 14.4% share of the market while still leading the way, Nokia grew by 3.6% to a 39.1% market share, over the 35.5% share it had on the year ago period, retaining its spot as the number one mobile phone manufacturer.

Source: Gartner Inc..

W910 + MBS-100 Pic set

Posted on 4/15/2008 06:20:00 PM No Comments
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Phat^Trance over at DailyMobile.se has posted some nice pics of Sony Ericsson W910 with MBS-100 speakers. Click here to see them.
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