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By: As Handset Makers Go Android, Top Symbian Exec Goes Away: Tech News «

As Handset Makers Go Android, Top Symbian Exec Goes Away: Tech News « — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:09:08 +0000

[...] The Symbian Foundation today announced in an email that Lee Williams has stepped down from his executive director role “for personal reasons” and will be replaced immediately by Tim Holbrow, the foundation’s CFO. Williams may have his own reasons for leaving, but there are a number of other business reasons that could explain such an action. But before we get into those, it might be worth reviewing this brief GigaOM video interview with Williams from a year or so ago. [...]

By: trancehell

trancehell — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:44:52 +0000

Symbian-directors, be aware: Symbian will die if you won't flow with the market ! If the market needs a feature, let them develop and implement it... there are umpteen absolutely brilliant hardware and software technologies on the market that could not make it because of the greediness of their owners, and I can fill an A4 page with them. Don't suicide Symbian !

By: Google’s Mobile Chief Andy Rubin on the Google Phone & the Androidification of Everything – GigaOM

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:02:52 +0000

[...] The world has changed, Rubin argued. Up until now, the software inside the phone and the web were two different entities living in two different worlds. What Android represents is the ethos of the web brought to the cell phone world. “As a company we iterate a lot and now you have a cell-phone platform that you can quickly iterate upon,” said Rubin. “When were you able to do that on Symbian?” Ouch! (Related: Symbian Executive Rips Into Google’s Android.) [...]

By: Android team updates ‘Donut’ and ‘Eclair’ SDKs

Android team updates ‘Donut’ and ‘Eclair’ SDKs — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:22:33 +0000

[...] Android devices will be able to upgrade to 2.0, and today, we begin to see a bit more of that dreaded Android fragmentation as both versions got updates to their SDK [...]

By: Adsnews

Adsnews — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:49:21 +0000

The Nokia frustrated me at every turn. A trip to the Ovi store resulted in a certificate error followed by a signup screen I could not get around. Kept getting popups asking which APN I wanted to use. Tried to update the firmware, but could not because some connections were open (which ones? how do I fix this?) and evidently Symbian doesn’t know how to close connections or something. The touch screen was somewhere between sad and comic and the overall experience was shockingly bad, particularly when considered in the light of the same company and same OS is on the remarkably cool E71.

By: Why is Google Android beating Symbian? |

Why is Google Android beating Symbian? | — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:21:17 +0000

[...] has been dismissive of Google Android, as well as smaller upstarts like the LiMo Foundation, arguing that the latter is [...]

By: Android vs Symbian « Gajah Item

Android vs Symbian « Gajah Item — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:18:36 +0000

[...] has been dismissive of Google Android, as well as smaller upstarts like the LiMo Foundation, arguing that the latter is [...]

By: Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting

Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:57:09 +0000

[...] but it is what Lee Williams, Symbian’s executive director chose to do on October 23, in this interview with Om Malik of GigaOM. You know you’re in rough water when your interviewer interjects [...]

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:48:53 +0000

“handset makers never really had [the customers]. Phone carriers do”.

Here in India, networks are dumb pipes that deliver voice and data calls. People buy whatever cellphone they like, slip in their sim card and networks stay happy with whatever little customers throw at them. Actually, they keep coming up with newer cheaper plans so they could replace the sim card that resides inside your cellphone with their own, you can get a Lifetime prepaid connection from Vodafone or Airtel for Rs. 100 easily.

The situation is the extreme opposite of what you have in America, handset makers have customers and networks just provide a service.

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:42:31 +0000

Web standards don’t matter, usability does. (ask Micrsoft)

In today’s world flash is more important.

By: CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLV: Symbian's Lee Williams rips into Android, implies Google is evil (video) | MobilePot

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:53:38 +0000

[...] Read – Lee Williams interview with GigaOM Read – New York Times: ‘Big Cellphone Makers Shifting to Android System’ Read – PCWorld: ‘Android, Symbian Will Own Smartphones in 2012′ [...]

By: Robojamie.net » Blog Archive » Lee Williams from Symbian on Google

Robojamie.net » Blog Archive » Lee Williams from Symbian on Google — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:05:50 +0000

[...] video and post of Lee Williams talking about Google and their smartphone strategy is being spun as some kind of attack on Android, but he’s [...]

By: Symbian Dev program tries to limit fragmentation | backLINK

Symbian Dev program tries to limit fragmentation | backLINK — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:41:41 +0000

[...] Executive Director Lee Williams publicly deemed Google’s approach to spreading Android the “perfect storm of fragmentation,” yesterday the Foundation launched the beta of its developer program for what looks to be a pretty [...]

By: Symbian Dev program tries to limit fragmentation « Yuvablog

Symbian Dev program tries to limit fragmentation « Yuvablog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:59 +0000

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:23 +0000

And cut and paste (as mentioned by Lee himself at SEE today)! You sound like a friend of Symbian (or at least someone who acknowledges that Symbian are going to make progress and this is a good thing) so I’ll go easy, but do you not think that there’s at least a temptation on Apple’s part to implement features less quickly in order to have a big trick for their next release? I think you massively overestimate consumers intelligence. Anyone using a smartphone for the past 5 years or so would know that it’s their right to have video recording and copy and paste.

I think people should really stop bashing Symbian and look forward to a world where there are 3 great mobile OS’s fiercely competing with each other. I know it’s a shame that it took Nokia this long to get their act together but this is the nature of competition. When your marketshare is sustained without doing a lot then why would you, as a PLC, waste time and money doing more than you need to? The real blame should be placed on RIM and Palm, because apart from the US market (which anyone who lives there needs to realise is like a parallel world in mobile) they were not challenging Nokia.

The respected market research organisation Gartner recently projected a 35% market share for Symbian in 2012, along with 18% for Android and some 15% for Apple (my figures aren’t right probably, but they’re close). This sounds about right for me. As good as the iPhone may be, not everyone can afford one. Apple as a company do not want to go the direction of mass producing products to the same scale as Nokia or anyone else. They want margins, just look at their profits! Therefore a 15% marketshare is what they want and that’s where they’ll be. Android is just starting and will take some time to build up steam. 18% is a big result in just 4 years. Symbian is the incumbent and if anyone is going to lose market share it will be them. But why is 35% something to be ashamed of! And these figures give me confidence for Symbian because by 2012 Symbian will have changed a lot (for the better) and will be showing it’s true colours as the most advanced mobile OS.

By: Google fans fail to contemplate why Android is free — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:08:33 +0000

[...] the messenger And yet, when this Symbian executive pointed out that Google’s Android is not just another adware experiment but actually an attempt by Google [...]