Nokia rebranded its ‘Series 60’ platform as simply S60. They also released an overview of the 3rd edition Feature Pack 1 of the Nokia UI for the Symbian-based S60, with a new security framework and built-in content protection improve developer investment protection, while still enabling freeware applications. FOTA enables software upgrades to be performed over the air, initiated by either the user or operator. POC brings “walkie-talkie” functionality to mobile devices without the limitation of distance. There are also enhancements to the XHTML browser, a flexible XML based framework for UI customization, stronger multimedia features and improvements in performance. Elsewhere, Palm’s CEO says that Palm won’t use Symbian because “Nokia owns Symbian”, while he claimed that the Palmsource spin off from Palm was a mistake.
Overview of Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1
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Nokia partly owns Symbian, there are others, and Palm could get in on the action if they wanted to – they just don’t want to and they are using this as an excuse.
Agree. The real reason obviously is:
“and partly because some enterprises it wants to sell to have a “Microsoft only” attitude”
It’s a shame that Palm has the opportunity to use the most solid mobile OS – Symbian, but ended up being the MS appendage :/
I have used all mobile smartphone OSes. I don’t find Symbian to be the most solid one. I find both Windows Mobile and Symbian being equally stable. I find the PalmOS way less stable than any other, and Linux is in a weird mix atm, with the core being pretty solid but the apps/UI on top of it to suck hard and have lots of bugs, so I can’t put these poor experiences on par to Windows/Symbian yet.
” Palm’s CEO says that Palm won’t use Symbian because “Nokia owns Symbian” ”
What is their option? Using mobile windows? Is that open source and how about Palm Source? Linux needs a bit of tweek so they need a 3rd party even for that.
No I do not understand Palm’s CEO. If he doesnt use Symbian because somebody owns it then they might think abouth their options.
Ive used a number of Windows Smartphones and they have all been horribly unstable, crashing when calling etc.. All these phones were from different providers Orange/O2 and T-Mobile. Althought i not saying that Windows Mobile isn’t of any use, as i use it all the time for PDA work. It’s just ive found the phone part of Windows Mobile seems to be unstable for me. (Ive spoken to other people and they suffer the same problems).
The symbian OS ive found to be the most stable, from a view of windows vs symbian. I have yet to try a treo with the palm OS running.
I don’t think nokia care’s at all that a company like Palm is not going to use there OS. There range of phones, and other manufacturers such as sony, more than makes up for it.
Like it was said above Palm is just becoming another Windows Drone, nothing new in the system. If they can offer Palm and Windows Treo’s, they should have bit the bullet and also offered a Symbian version aswell.
However Palm has been making a number of mistakes lately, at this rate Palm will be soon be over. They really need to pull themselves togeather, as when they want to they can make some excellent devices.