First Symbian^4 demo videos spotted, innovations missing

A few weeks back there were some speculations about Symbian’s future but as it seems, Nokia aren’t keen on leaving the most popular smartphone OS in the mud. Instead, Symbian OS is on its way to a total makeover just like Windows Mobile.

2009 world handset sales ranked, iPhone OS eats WinMo

Technology researchers from Gartner have come up with their annual report on mobile phone sales, 2009 edition. And it’s an interesting read.

In short, 2009 phones sales have remained flat despite the economic imbalances but there are some pretty interesting market share shifts.

First look at the Cseries with leaked Symbian-running Nokia C5

Symbian is going to push out S40 out of all but the most basic phones – the newly leaked Nokia C5 is good evidence of that. With a modest price tag this handset would steer many buyers in Symbian direction.
The Nokia C5 is also the first phone of the Cseries we’ve seen yet – remember back in July last year when Nokia trademarked Xseries and Cseries? With the Nokia X3 and the Nokia X6 we saw the Xseries – the successors of the XpressMusic lineup – and now it’s clear that the Cseries takes over where the “classic” phones left off.

Symbian goes fully open source, it’s a free download to all

There have been quite a few rumors about the fate of Symbian, but now the OS has entered a new stage of its existence – its code is now open source. This move began in June 2008, when Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation to take over the development of the OS. And the Foundation has big plans for the future.

Nokia holds back S40 to make way for Maemo and Symbian

Today, at its annual Capital Markets Day event, Nokia revealed some details about it OS distribution strategies that we find particularly interesting. Apparently the company has finally realized two important things concerning its products. First, that the Maemo OS has great potential and second that their S40 feature phone UI is long outdated (at least in the midrange).

Nokia tease with Symbian UI improvements coming in 2010

Yesterday Nokia announced their 2010 year plans for major renewal of the aging Symbian user interface and pushing the first Maemo 6 device. But the good news didn’t end there, since the podcast published actually demoed some of the UI changes.

How to Sign Symbian Applications

How to Sign Symbian Applications