Smartphone Experts--Smartphone Fan » linux mobile http://smartphonefan.com Focus on smartphones' freeware,apps,reviews and tips Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:06:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Nokia denies giving up Symbian http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-denies-giving-up-symbian/ http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-denies-giving-up-symbian/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:12:33 +0000 admin http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-denies-giving-up-symbian/ Friday Nokia said the upcoming Maemo-based high-end systems Nokia N900 cell phone t is not a threat to Symbian system status.

On the 11th of this month there is news that Nokia will abandon Symbian system, in turn pushing open-source platform, Maemo. This week, Nokia launched in October acknowledged to be high-end phones based on Maemo Systems Nokia N900.

However, Nokia said Friday, and will not give up Symbian. Nokia’s sales director for Anxi 10000 Iozzi (Anssi Vanjoki) said: “This is not a threat to Symbian’s position, Symbian will be our main platform for the future will be fully complete.”

Late last year, Nokia’s Symbian has just completed the acquisition of the remaining 52% stake in the work to achieve 100% Holdings of Symbian. Maemo is a Linux-based software platform for mobile devices, which is the operating system, Nokia’s top brands, to compensate for some of the congenitally deficient Symbian

]]> http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-denies-giving-up-symbian/feed/ 1 Nokia released high-end Linux mobile phone http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-released-high-end-linux-mobile-phone/ http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-released-high-end-linux-mobile-phone/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:03:50 +0000 admin http://smartphonefan.com/2009/08/nokia-released-high-end-linux-mobile-phone/ The world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia Thursday announced that next month will launch a first use of Linux system software, high-end mobile phone N900, products tend to have individual computerized cell phone to show against the Apple (Apple) smart phones iPhone ambition.

Nokia N900 with Linux open source operating system developed by the Maemo to operate high-end products, as well as ARM’s Cortex-A8 processor, and give Intel (blog) processor. Products available in touch screen and slide-out keyboard, excluding subsidies and taxes, the retail price of each is about 500 euros (712 dollars).

According to foreign media reports, because of Nokia’s smart phone operating system developed by Symbian, now a huge market share, surpassing rival Apple, BlackBerry (BlackBerry) manufacturer RIM and Google combined market share, Nokia today also clarify in particular, adoption of Linux-based operating system, and will not affect the company’s promotion of Symbian’s strategy, both in its high-end product lines in parallel.

Nokia’s executive vice president of marketing, said Anssi Vanjoki, new products will help enhance the company’s market competitiveness against the iPhone, but he stressed that Nokia N900 is not a direct challenge to the iPhone, but rather by the use of Linux, Maemo operating system, so this phone to provide “similar to the personal computer experience”, for example, simultaneous operation of several windows programs.

He pointed out that this product back in iPhone, before the appearance of any development-related information, then under the company’s schedule development; In contrast, currently only using the Symbian operating system, the company has launched a smart phone, only in direct competition with the iPhone

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